SpaceX successfully launches latest batch of 60 internet-beaming satellites to orbit
Update April 22nd, 3:48PM ET: SpaceX successfully launched and deployed all 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket
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Month: April 2020
Twitter will remove misleading COVID-19-related tweets that could incite people to engage in ‘harmful activity’
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has updated its COVID-19 policies to require users remove tweets making unverified
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Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better
Image: Google Google’s Duo video chatting app is about to get a big bump in call quality, thanks to a
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Verizon extends 15GB of extra data deal to customers through May
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon announced today that it’s extending its pledge to provide an additional 15GB
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Nikola gets $4 million pandemic loan, as patent lawsuit against Tesla continues
Image: Nikola Electric big rig startup Nikola received a $4.1 million loan from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program
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Nuro is using delivery robots to help health care workers fighting COVID-19
Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, is using its small fleet of road-legal delivery robots to
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Chinese EV startup Byton furloughs hundreds in the US
Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Chinese EV startup Byton is furloughing more than 200 workers at its North
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Cruise commits to using ‘100 percent renewable energy’ to power its self-driving taxis
Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, prides itself on being one
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Zoom will soon let you report meeting participants to help bust Zoombombers
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom is adding a way for hosts to report meeting participants, according to
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Peter Thiel’s controversial Palantir is helping build a coronavirus tracking tool for the Trump admin
Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images Palantir, an analytics company co-founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel, is supporting the US Department
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