August 19, 2020 President ***** Endorses Bigot Who’s Been Banned From a Dozen Tech Platforms President Donald ***** congratulated anti-Muslim hatemonger Laura Loomer over Twitter last night for winning the Republican primary in Florida’s 21st congressional district. Ironically, Loomer…
August 19, 2020 How can you get out of this alive if you don’t know today’s number? He keeps the numbers in a jar. | Image: David Lynch / YouTube Yesterday was a three and I felt that. The day before…
August 19, 2020 Tim Wu makes the case that it’s only fair to ban TikTok in the US Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new opinion piece for the New York Times, Tim Wu, Columbia University law professor and…
August 19, 2020 Netflix’s The Irishman will get a Criterion Blu-ray release in November Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman is still very much available for streaming on Netflix, but you’ll soon be able to get a physical copy if…
August 19, 2020 Avaaz: Facebook’s algorithm drove 3.8 billion views of health misinformation Despite efforts by Facebook to combat fake news about the coronavirus, the social networking platform enabled 3.8 billion views of health misinformation.Read More via…
August 19, 2020 Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms this year has been their investment in removing…
August 19, 2020 Watch the first trailer for Gillian Flynn’s Amazon series ‘Utopia’ Amazon has released the first trailer for Utopia and announced that it will debut on Prime Video on September 25th. Written and executive produced…
August 19, 2020 Google is converting gifted Play Music subscriptions into Play Store credits Play Music users with gifted access to the service that’ll last beyond September don’t have worry about their subscription going to waste. As 9to5Google…
August 19, 2020 Instagram’s new QR codes are a shortcut directly to your profile Last year Instagram added some Snapchat-like nametags that could bring a friend to your profile just by pointing their Instagram app’s camera at the…
August 19, 2020 First Male Murder Hornet in U.S. Caught in Washington State The murder-hornet-hunting heroes at the Washington State Department of Agriculture have successfully trapped a male specimen—the first of its kind found stateside. Read more……