Month: January 2020
US quarantines citizens evacuated from Wuhan
The 195 United States citizens who were evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak, will be placed under quarantine. This is the first time since the 1960s that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has exercised its legal right to place people into quarantine. The…
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Fox News hosts urge their fans to complain to Roku over streaming blackout
For the first time, Roku has found itself in a heated carriage dispute that’s very familiar to cable providers, but less often associated with tech companies. Yesterday, the conflict between Roku and Fox spilled out into the open, with Roku emailing customers to announce that all of Fox’s standalone channels…
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Microsoft to pay cash bounties on Xbox bugs
Microsoft has announced the launch of an official bug bounty program for Xbox in an effort to improve the gaming platform’s network and services. The software giant has said that it will pay anywhere from $500 to $20,000 for vulnerabilities discovered in the platform’s online service Xbox Live. While security…
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The best anime of 2019
Hundreds of new anime series come out every year, so it can be difficult to pick out which ones are actually worth watching. With each new anime season, The Verge tries to point fans to interesting new shows via seasonal previews. But it can be hard to judge a series…
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Aluminum is replacing plastic at the Super Bowl
Fifty thousand aluminum cups will replace plastic containers for beer and liquor at the Super Bowl this Sunday as the Hard Rock Stadium tries to go green. (PepsiCo will also serve its drinks in aluminum.) It’s not clear how much better the switch is for the environment, though — and…
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Your doctor’s computer may have suggested opioids because drugmakers paid to tweak the software, DOJ says
San Francisco-based medical records startup Practice Fusion allegedly developed software for pharmaceutical companies to help increase the number of prescriptions doctors wrote for pain medications, according to a settlement with the US Department of Justice, Bloomberg reports. The company, which supplied its software to tens of thousands of doctors offices…
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