Month: February 2020
Ride-Hail And Delivery Apps Like Lyft And DoorDash Aren’t Sharing Their Plans For What Happens When Coronavirus Hits The United States
Despite CDC warnings to prepare for an outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, multiple companies, including Amazon, Lyft and DoorDash, declined to share specifics about their plans for an outbreak or their communication with workers, including if they would pause services to slow down the diseases’ spread, if they…
Read More
Hilary Duff publicly asks Disney to move Lizzie McGuire reboot to Hulu instead of Disney Plus
New Disney CEO Bob Chapek has only been on the job for a few days, and he’s already got a controversy to deal with. Hilary Duff, whose career was launched by the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire, is asking the company to move the in-the-works reboot off of Disney Plus…
Read More
Coronavirus Fears Cause Tech Giants To Cancel Conferences, Curb Travel, And Take Hits To Supply Chains
Although the coronavirus has barely touched down in the US so far, it’s already disrupting operations at all five of the world’s most powerful technology companies. “It’s on everyone’s mind,” one Microsoft employee told BuzzFeed News. “How could it not be?” Much is still unknown about COVID-19, but leaders at…
Read More
Apple Says Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Is Violating Its Rules
Apple has disabled the iOS developer account of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database of billions of photos and has worked with thousands of organizations around the world — after BuzzFeed News determined that the New York-based startup had been violating the…
Read More
The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault will send you on a 90s nostalgia trip
The Internet Archive, perhaps best known for the extremely handy Wayback Machine you can use to find older versions of webpages, also has free movies, books, software, and music. Yet a little known part of the organization’s media trove includes uploaded recordings from VHS tapes, as I learned today thanks…
Read More
GDC 2020 has been canceled
Well, after what I’m sure was a hectic few days for the folks planning the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the team announced today that they have officially decided to cancel the event happening this March, saying in a blog post that they hoped they would be able to…
Read More