Month: May 2020
Automatic Labs shuts down its vehicle-tracking service, citing the COVID-19 pandemic
Automatic has announced that it’ll be abruptly shutting down on May 28th because “the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our business.” As such, the company is discontinuing its Automatic service and recommending that customers remove the connected car adapters from their vehicles and recycle them. As the company explains in…
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Bandcamp is waiving fees today in support of artists
Back in March, Bandcamp announced that it was waiving its share of the revenue for a day, in order to support artists whose livelihood have ground to a screeching halt amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The March 20 event pulled in an impressive $4.3 million for artists, amounting to the biggest…
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Slack CEO: Microsoft Teams is not a competitor to Slack
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield thinks Microsoft Teams isn’t a competitor to Slack. Questioned on the ongoing battle between Slack and Microsoft Teams for the enterprise space, Butterfield once again challenged Microsoft’s approach to bundling Teams with Office. “What we’ve seen over the past couple of months is that Teams is…
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FCC won’t warn robocallers before fining them
Now that the FCC is no longer required to warn robocallers, it’s taking advantage of that expanded power. The regulator has issued an order ending warnings before it slaps spam callers with penalties. The new measure also extends the statute of limit… Source
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Vergecast: the new CEOs of America’s mobile carriers, and Big Tech’s quarterly earnings
It’s earnings season and The Verge has been paying close attention to the impact of COVID-19 on the tech world. This week on The Vergecast, co-hosts Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss the takeaways from earnings reports by Twitter, Tesla, Facebook, and other big tech companies. Second half of the show,…
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Professional Photographers Are Making Their Instagram Accounts Private After A Judge Ruled They Can’t Stop Websites From Embedding Their Work
BuzzFeed News While I was scrolling through the images of banana bread and babies, one image stood out — a notification from a photographer that they were taking their account private to avoid media companies embedding their images in their stories. And then another notification, saying the same thing. And…
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