December 14, 2020 Uber fined $59 million for dodging questions about sexual assaults Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has 30 days to pay a $59 million fine to California’s Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for…
December 14, 2020 Here’s where you can buy a Nintendo Switch Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Nintendo Switch, like everything else that can lighten the mood during this incredibly tough time,…
December 14, 2020 This Working Marauder’s Map Built Using AR and GPS Brings Magic to Our World Many of the things we see on TV or movies can often only be explained with the word “magic” (or, your know, visual effects.)…
December 14, 2020 Google is officially retiring the Home Max Say goodbye to the Home Max, Google’s original large smart speaker meant to provide HiFi audio. The company has shared with Engadget that it…
December 14, 2020 Disney World is going to stop photoshopping masks onto people Becky O’Bryan Today in stories that make you go “Wait, what?”, Disney World is going to stop digitally adding masks to people who don’t…
December 14, 2020 Facebook Finally Brings Its Collab App to the Public Collab—the jam-session app that’s also the latest project from Facebook’s experimental New Product Experimentation (NPE) team—is finally out of its beta. Read more… via…
December 14, 2020 ‘Fortnite’ performance mode brings 60 fps gameplay to more PCs With its modest minimum system requirements, you can play Fortnite on almost any computer made in the last decade, but the experience may not…
December 14, 2020 Apple’s iOS 12.5 adds COVID-19 exposure notifications for older iPhones Earlier this year, Apple rolled out iOS 13.7, which added a COVID-19 exposure notification framework. This Exposure Notifications system allowed you to opt in…
December 14, 2020 Facebook launches its Collab music app to the public Facebook Facebook has publicly launched Collab, an experimental music-making app that first launched as an invite-only beta back in May, TechCrunch reports. The app…
December 14, 2020 How hackers, probably Russian, infiltrated the federal government The Treasury Department is reportedly one of the victims of a potentially massive hack of government systems. | Ting Shen/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Here’s…