August 6, 2020 It Doesn’t Matter Who Owns TikTok When Microsoft officially emerged as the frontrunner for a potential acquisition of the teen-fave-turned-national-security-concern TikTok earlier this week, tech critics ‘round the globe found…
August 6, 2020 How to Limit Who Can Reply to Your Tweets iOS: Twitter users can now limit who can reply to their tweets using the iOS app—and here’s hoping this feature rolls out to Android…
August 6, 2020 Choice Finally Comes to 5G Laptops as Mediatek Start Making Modems Late last year, Intel sold off its smartphone modem business to Apple for around $1 billion, but that still left Intel with the problem…
August 6, 2020 Over 17 Million Cubic Feet of Ice Threaten Italian Tourist Town Anything is possible when it comes to ice these warming days: disappearing ice caps, newly discovered penguin colonies, and now, crumbling glaciers threatening the…
August 6, 2020 Researchers discover evidence of gender bias in major computer vision APIs Researchers at Wunderman Thompson say they’ve found evidence of gender bias in major computer vision APIs from Google, IBM, and Microsoft.Read More via VentureBeat…
August 6, 2020 Temtem will bring its Pokémon-inspired MMO to PlayStation 5 Humble Games and Crema announced during Sony’s State of Play today that the MMO Temtem will come to PlayStation 5 in 2021.Read More via…
August 6, 2020 Facebook is extending its work-from-home policy until July 2021 Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images It’s the latest major tech company to announce it will keep its offices closed much longer than anticipated. Mark…
August 6, 2020 Perhaps months too late, the Apple-Google Covid-19 contact tracing tool comes to America Virginia’s Covidwise app is the first in America to use Apple and Google’s exposure notification tool. | Zac Freeland/Vox; Virginia Department of Health Virginia…
August 6, 2020 Facebook extends remote work for employees through June 2021 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will let its employees continue to work from home through June 2021, joining other companies like…
August 6, 2020 Uber continues to hemorrhage cash during the pandemic despite growth in delivery Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Uber is continuing to bleed cash during the coronavirus pandemic. The chronically unprofitable company lost $1.8…