June 11, 2020 How to enable the new media controls in the Android 11 beta Dieter Bohn / The Verge One of the Android 11 beta features that I was most looking forward to was accessing the media controls…
June 11, 2020 Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as chief product officer A year after quitting the company over differences with CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the company’s direction, Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as its…
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 Apple launches $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is launching a $100 million initiative to promote racial equality for people of color with a…
June 11, 2020 Apple’s virtual WWDC keynote will take place on June 22nd at 1PM ET Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s virtual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote will take place on Monday, June 22nd at 1PM ET, the…