June 9, 2020 Leaving content moderation to volunteers is empowering racists Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I. Recently the president did a bad post, and a lot of people got mad. Twitter hid…
June 9, 2020 SpaceX’s next Starlink launch will boost three hitchhiking satellites to orbit Two of Planet’s SkySat satellites hitched a ride on this December 2018 launch of one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. | SpaceX In the…
June 9, 2020 Microsoft’s AI journalists confuse mixed-race Little Mix singers on MSN homepage The AI editors confused Little Mix’s Leigh-Anne Pinnock (left) and Jade Thirlwall (right). | Image composite: Getty Microsoft’s decision to replace human journalists with…
June 9, 2020 Twitter starts aggressively fact-checking tweets linking 5G to COVID-19 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is now fact-checking tweets that link 5G and the COVID-19 pandemic by adding a label that…
June 9, 2020 Banned horror game ‘Devotion’ is available again in Taiwan Taiwanese horror game Devotion is available for purchase again — but only in its home country. A Resetera gaming forum poster has discovered that…
June 9, 2020 ‘Chernobyl’ director will helm HBO’s ‘The Last of Us’ pilot HBO’s The Last of Us TV series will reunite Chernobyl’s creator with its director, according to Variety. Johan Renck, who directed the five episodes…
June 9, 2020 What’s on TV this week: ‘Artemis Fowl’ and ‘Pokémon Journeys’ This week Disney+ is premiering Artemis Fowl on streaming, a movie that had been scheduled for a theatrical release. On Netflix, Pokémon Journeys is…
June 9, 2020 Court denies arrest warrant for Samsung heir Photo by Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has escaped arrest after a court in Seoul denied prosecutors’ request to detain…
June 8, 2020 Itch.io offers 700 games in a pay-what-you-want racial justice bundle You now have a chance to score a massive number of games for a low price — and support an important cause while you’re…
June 8, 2020 IBM stops work on facial recognition over human rights concerns The backlash to facial recognition among governments is extending to corporate heavyweights. IBM chief Arvind Krishna has sent a letter (via Axios and CNBC)…