June 1, 2020 K-pop stans overwhelm app after Dallas police ask for videos of protesters Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM After the Dallas Police Department asked people to send videos of “illegal activity from the protests” happening in the…
June 1, 2020 Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now Protesters demonstrate against police brutality and the death of George Floyd outside the St. Louis City Justice Center and City Hall on June 1,…
June 1, 2020 Go read this heartbreaking story of how coronavirus spreads Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At this moment, more than 104,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus and more than 1.8 million…
June 1, 2020 A Twitter joke about MSNBC and World War Z turned into a misinformation nightmare Bad Scooter / Twitter An apparent Twitter joke got out of control this weekend, falsely convincing some users — and possibly even the leader…
June 1, 2020 Italy’s ‘Immuni’ COVID-19 contact tracing app uses Google, Apple tech Italy has released its official COVID-19 contact-tracing app, which is built on the framework developed by Apple and Google to track infections. Four regions…
June 1, 2020 Many Facebook employees think the company needs to stand up to ***** now more than ever Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing intense scrutiny inside his company for how he’s handled *****’s controversial rhetoric on the platform. | Tobias Hase/picture…
June 1, 2020 Uber, Lyft, DoorDash suspend operations in some US cities with curfews Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In order to comply with local curfew orders, food delivery platform DoorDash and ride-sharing companies Lyft and…
June 1, 2020 Grindr will remove ethnicity filters in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement Image: Grindr Grindr, a popular gay dating app, will remove ethnicity filters from its app, the company tweeted today. The decision is meant to…
June 1, 2020 Apple releases iOS 13.5.1 to fix the flaw behind a well-known jailbreak Less than two weeks after Apple released iOS 13.5, the company is rolling out the first major update, iOS 13.5.1 and iPadOS 13.5.1. The…
June 1, 2020 Now all your home’s Alexa devices work like an intercom Amazon Alexa users can now use the “Drop In” feature to talk with all of their Echo devices at once, Amazon announced on its…