Month: September 2020
Twitter’s voice tweets are rolling out to more iOS users, and transcriptions are on the way
Twitter has just expanded its voice tweets feature, which lets you record a snippet of audio to include with a tweet, to more users on iOS. But perhaps more significantly, Twitter is now saying it plans to add transcriptions to voice tweets to improve accessibility, which could help address criticisms…
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Scars, Tattoos, And License Plates: This Is What Palantir And The LAPD Know About You
Ahead of its Sept. 30 public listing, Palantir, a secretive data analytics company with ties to the defense and intelligence communities, has been touting itself as a tool that can “target terrorists and keep soldiers safe.” With an expected valuation of about $22 billion, it will become one of the…
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Cyberpunk 2077 dev breaks promise, will force employees to work six days a week
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has told employees that six-day workweeks will be mandatory ahead of the game’s November 19th release date, even though the studio has repeatedly and explicitly promised it would never do that, Bloomberg reports. On two separate occasions in 2019, studio co-founder Marcin Iwiński told…
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‘Pokémon Go’ will roll back some of its COVID-19-related changes
As the coronavirus pandemic spread in the spring and summer, Pokémon Go rolled out a series of changes that made it easier for players to keep participating. Now Niantic Labs has announced that while some of the temporary bonuses it added will remain… Source
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Atari VCS backers should get their consoles ‘very soon’
More than two years and multiple delays after its original announcement, the Atari VCS is finally making its way to people who helped crowdfund the console. In an update over on Medium, Atari says it's putting the "finishing touches" on the first bat… Source
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Google follows Apple’s lead with new, stricter Play Store payment rules Google Play Store
Google will no longer allow app developers whose software offers in-app purchases to circumvent the Google Play Store’s payment system as the company looks to crackdown on apps and services trying to bypass its rules. The search giant has always required developers who distribute their apps on the Play Store…
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