May 18, 2020 Only 45 Percent of Businesses Plan to Rehire the Same Workers Once They Reopen, Facebook Survey Finds A new Facebook survey of small- and medium-sized businesses has found that, among those who have shut down amid the global covid-19 health crisis,…
May 18, 2020 Verizon Closes Deal for BlueJeans, the AOL of Video Conferencing Apps With most of the U.S. quarantined and many people working at home, Verizon has officially finalized its acquisition of video conferencing platform BlueJeans. Read…
May 18, 2020 Epic Games Store’s self-serve refunds get your money back without the wait Epic Games is still busy adding helpful (and occasionally overdue) features to its online store. The gaming giant recently introduced self-serve refunds that save…
May 18, 2020 Why Attorney General Bill Barr is mad at Apple *****’s attorney general thinks it’s time for a “legislative solution” that would give the federal government more control over private companies. | Andrew Caballero-Reynolds…
May 18, 2020 Elon Musk is playing Twitter footsie with the fringe right Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images Elon Musk has always had a certain manic energy on Twitter, but in the past week, his…
May 18, 2020 Symptom Checker Apps Are Awful at Guessing the Right Illness, Study Finds Using the internet to diagnose your latest health concern is, perhaps unsurprisingly, not all that effective. A new study from scientists in Australia tested…
May 18, 2020 Disney streaming chief Kevin Mayer resigns to become TikTok CEO Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Disney’s Kevin Mayer is leaving his post as the head of Disney’s streaming efforts to become the…
May 18, 2020 Self-driving shuttle company adds seatbelts in order to resume US operations Image: City of Columbus, OH French self-driving vehicle company EasyMile will add seatbelts to its shuttles in order to be able to once again…
May 18, 2020 Delayed ‘PES’ Euro 2020 update will arrive on June 4th With so many live sporting events canceled due to COVID-19, fans are turning to esports. But even those are facing pandemic-related setbacks and delays….
May 18, 2020 This Virus of Great Uncertainty “I know this is going to sound dramatic, but I’m not coming home this weekend,” I told my sister through the phone. It was…