May 21, 2020 Facebook Messenger will now try to fight scammers without reading your messages Facebook The app is one step closer to being end-to-end encrypted by default. Facebook Messenger is rolling out a new tool to prevent scammers…
May 21, 2020 More meetings, longer hours, living anywhere: How the coronavirus changed office work Zac Freeland/Vox Office work will never be the same. When the world eventually opens back up after the Covid-19 crisis, many parts of society,…
May 20, 2020 Apple and Google roll out their new exposure notification tool. Interest seems limited. A new software update will allow iPhones and Android devices to use exposure tracing features built into apps from public health authorities. | Adam…
May 19, 2020 Here’s Facebook’s new plan to make you shop on Instagram Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that Instagram will get a new dedicated shopping tab in the coming months. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg…
May 19, 2020 Spotify is hiring Joe Rogan, one of the world’s most popular and controversial podcasters Podcaster Joe Rogan at a UFC event in May 2020. | Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images The deal means Rogan’s podcast will be exclusively on…
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 16, 2020 What it’s like to interpret for coronavirus patients remotely A US hospital worker in Stamford, Connecticut, speaks through a remote Spanish translator while treating a Guatemalan Covid-19 patient on April 24. | John…
May 13, 2020 The Senate just voted to let the government keep surveilling your online life without a warrant Sen. Mitch McConnell, a vocal opponent of curtailing the government’s surveillance powers, got his way again. | Alex Wong/Getty Images Many senators wanted to…
May 13, 2020 Bill Gates has an idea for how to get billionaires to donate more for coronavirus Bill Gates carries enormous respect among signers of The Giving Pledge. | AFP via Getty Images The small messages that Gates sends the signers…
May 13, 2020 Amazon extends bonus pay for front-line workers but says it ends in June Amazon warehouse workers have faced additional hazards throughout the coronavirus pandemic. | Helen H. Richardson/Denver Post via Getty Images The $2 hourly pay hikes…