December 6, 2019 TikTok to Pay $1.1 Million to Settle Lawsuit Alleging It Collected and Exposed Children’s Data TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a proposed class action alleging that the app Musical.ly violated…
December 6, 2019 Adobe is buying the Oculus Medium VR sculpting app Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015. Nothing is apparently changing for…
December 6, 2019 Magic Leap reportedly only sold 6,000 AR headsets in six months After years of hype, it looks like reality is starting to catch up with Magic Leap. According to a report from The Information, the…
December 6, 2019 Social Media Companies Aren’t Even Close to Fixing Their Bot Problem, Report Finds Researchers with the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence released a report this week showing that—shocker!—it remains as easy as ever to buy followers…
December 6, 2019 Crisis on Infinite Earths for Infinite Dummies There are three types of people in this weird world of ours: people who are losing their minds with excitement for the Arrowverse’s imminent…
December 6, 2019 AI-powered Lego sorter knows the shape of every brick For some people, rummaging through a bunch of Lego bricks is part of the fun. But if you've got an enormous collection or take…
December 6, 2019 Magic Leap’s next-generation headset is reportedly ‘years away from launch’ Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Magic Leap’s sales numbers reportedly haven’t matched CEO Rony Abovitz’s high expectations — and a second-generation headset…
December 6, 2019 All I want for Christmas is this string light phone charger This genius combination of Christmas string lights and phone charger borders the line between kitschy and adorable, but I first saw it on Apartment…
December 6, 2019 Researchers create bone-inspired 3D-printed building materials You may not think of your bones as buildings, but researchers do. A team from Cornell University, Purdue University and Case Western Reserve University…
December 6, 2019 FTC officially rules that Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 18 months after the scandal first broke, the Federal Trade Commission has officially ruled that…