July 22, 2020 Why you can’t help screwing around while working from home Getty Images For remote employees, meetings and deep work are now coupled with online shopping, soothing puzzles and video games, and an array of…
July 21, 2020 Facebook’s new label on a ***** post is an “abject failure,” says a ***** campaign spokesperson Democratic party leaders say Facebook’s new labeling of *****’s and other politicians’ posts on voting falls short of a true fact-check. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty…
July 21, 2020 How feds used a YouTube livestream to arrest a Portland protester A camouflaged federal officer pepper sprays a protester in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, on July 20, 2020….
July 21, 2020 How Hollywood accidentally built Netflix Johnny Depp starred in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. | Screenshot via Disney Netflix’s stunning rise wouldn’t have happened without unwitting help from…
July 21, 2020 Silicon Valley’s richest are getting richer just as the pandemic is getting worse Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has tripled his net worth in 2020. | Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The net worth of…
July 17, 2020 Contraband cellphones have given us prison TikTok People who are incarcerated are turning to TikTok to express themselves and show what living conditions are like inside prison. | Sajjad Hussain/AFP via…
July 17, 2020 Emoji reveal more about you than you think Emoji are fun, but they’re also valuable snippets of code that advertisers can use to understand how people feel. | Feature China/Barcroft Media via…
July 17, 2020 What comes after Zoom fatigue James Bareham for Vox/Recode | Photo of Picturephone 1965: Bettmann/Gettyimages It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?…
July 16, 2020 Lawmakers are very upset about this week’s massive Twitter breach Sen. Ron Wyden spoke out against Twitter’s lax security after this week’s breach. | Zach Gibson/Getty Images A hacker took over countless accounts from…
July 16, 2020 The pandemic has been great for Netflix Chris Hemsworth in Netflix’s Extraction. | Jasin Boland/Netflix The streaming service added another 10 million customers in the second quarter of the year. Three…