August 14, 2020 The dystopian tech that companies are selling to help schools reopen sooner Companies are adapting their artificial intelligence products with the hope that they can help schools reopen amid the pandemic. | George Frey/Getty Images This…
August 13, 2020 The company behind Fortnite is daring Apple to shutter its game on iPhones Epic Games says Fortnite has 350 million players worldwide. | Epic Games It’s Epic versus Apple in an antitrust battle … royale. The company…
August 13, 2020 GPT-3, explained: This new language AI is uncanny, funny — and a big deal OpenAI co-founder and chair Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, and TechCrunch news editor Frederic Lardinois during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019….
August 13, 2020 Facebook’s new voter information center gives Americans fact-checked voting information Facebook is rolling out a voting information hub to try to register 4 million Americans to vote | Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post…
August 12, 2020 Netflix spoiled the live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, its showrunners say Aang, the hero of Avatar: The Last Airbender | Nickelodeon The beloved fantasy franchise has enjoyed a banner year on Netflix — until now….
August 12, 2020 How social justice slideshows took over Instagram Zac Freeland/Vox PowerPoint activism is everywhere on Instagram. Why do these posts look so familiar? In 1971, to the backdrop of a funky jazz…
August 11, 2020 Kamala Harris is the choice Joe ***** needed to win over Silicon Valley Kamala Harris, left, has had a close relationships with Sheryl Sandberg, right. | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The California senator has glad-handed with…
August 11, 2020 Facebook bans blackface and certain anti-Semitic conspiracy theories Facebook updated its hate speech policies to ban people from posting content depicting blackface or anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jewish people are running the…
August 11, 2020 Twitter is finally helping people shut out “reply guys” Twitter is rolling out a new feature that lets people limit who replies to their posts | Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images You can now limit…
August 11, 2020 *****’s China fight has extended to TikTok. But is it really a threat? Yan Guolin/VCG via Getty Images What we know — and don’t know — about the alleged national security concerns surrounding TikTok and WeChat. Last week,…