November 2, 2020 Inside Environmentalists’ Final Efforts to Get Out the Vote This election cycle, the climate crisis is on Americans’ minds. In an October poll from the New York Times and Siena College, 58% of…
November 2, 2020 Spotify Finds a Pay-for-Play Workaround As far as big tech media companies go, Spotify’s algorithms have largely avoided scrutiny. But we’re entering a new era for the music streaming…
November 2, 2020 UK contact tracing app failed to flag people exposed to COVID-19 Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images The COVID-19 exposure notification app used in England and Wales failed to warn users if they were…
November 2, 2020 You Could Be Fined $50 for Not Wearing a Mask in NYC’s Travel Hubs Heads up for folks catching a train, plane, or bus in the New York or New Jersey area: Starting today, the Port Authority is…
November 2, 2020 Police used facial recognition to identify a Lafayette Square protester In the aftermath of the Lafayette Square protests in June, police in Washington DC used facial recognition technology to identify a protestor who had…
November 2, 2020 Twitch announces a virtual TwitchCon next week Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The pandemic has taken many things from the world — but mostly it’s stolen events. Every hang…
November 2, 2020 They hate ***** for a living. They might miss him, too. President ***** waves outside the White House on October 21, as he departs for a North Carolina rally. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images What happens…
November 2, 2020 Rapidly Intensifying Hurricane Eta Will Bring ‘Catastrophic’ Conditions to Central America I know there’s a lot going on, but pause for a moment and consider the Caribbean. Hurricane Eta is a monster bearing down on…
November 2, 2020 Apple will reportedly launch Arm-based MacBook Air and Pro laptops at ‘One More Thing’ event Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s upcoming “One More Thing” event, announced this morning and scheduled for November 10th, will be a…
November 2, 2020 AMC’s revenue plummets by more than 90 percent as theaters remain empty Roy Rochlin/Getty Images AMC Entertainment didn’t try to hide the immense financial duress the company has faced the last several months and the increasingly…