June 11, 2020 Snap hits 100 million players, teams with Zynga, and launches more chat games Snap announced that the company has see more than 100 million users play Snapchat games since launching its chat-based games in the past year. Read…
June 11, 2020 Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has followed competitors Amazon and IBM in restricting how it provides facial recognition technology to third…
June 11, 2020 YouTube commits $100 million to ‘amplify’ black creators Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is launching a $100 million fund to “amplify” the voices of black creators on its platform…
June 11, 2020 OpenAI will start selling its text-generation tech, and the first customers include Reddit Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Research lab OpenAI, which started as a nonprofit with the goal of mitigating the potential harms of…
June 11, 2020 Snap announces Minis to bring other apps into Snapchat Snap today announced Minis, a suite of miniature applications made by third-party developers that run inside of Snapchat. Minis are built using HTML and…
June 11, 2020 ***** campaign petitions Facebook to change its policies on misinformation and political ads John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former Vice President Joe *****’s presidential…
June 11, 2020 Ford’s electric F-150 will go on sale in 2022 Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ford has spent the last few years promising it will make an all-electric version of its extremely…
June 11, 2020 Snap allows developers to create ‘mini’ apps for Snapchat Snapchat is bringing third-party apps into its app with “Minis,” pared down versions of popular apps that can be accessed during conversations in SnapchatThe…
June 11, 2020 Apple’s virtual WWDC keynote starts on June 22nd at 1 PM ET With less than two weeks to go before this year’s entirely virtual edition of the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has announced the schedule for…
June 11, 2020 ‘Death Stranding’ should run just fine on your older PC When Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding arrives on PC on July 14th, you won't need the most cutting-edge computer to play as deliveryman Sam Bridges. On Thursday, the…