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Apple is closing stores it just re-opened after coronavirus spike
Apple stores are once again shuttering in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
By Matt Binder
Twitter's audio tweets reveal a bigger accessibility problem
The company doesn't have a "formal" accessibility team.
By Matt Binder
You can now trade in your old Mac at Apple's retail Stores
Until now, the Mac trade-in program was only available online.
By Matthew Humphries
'Today is a victory for us all': Tech world reacts to Supreme Court's DACA decision
A (temporary) win for DREAMers.
By Matt Binder
Congressman calls out Amazon's 'performative' facial-recognition moratorium
It turns out that at least one congressman wasn't fooled by Amazon's wishy-washy moratorium on police's use of its facial-recognition technology.
By Jack Morse
People are using Twitter's new audio tweet feature to mostly troll and joke
Dumb tweets, now in audio!
By Tim Marcin
Facebook faces boycott push from NAACP, ADL, and other civil rights groups
"They allowed incitement to violence against protestors fighting for racial justice in America..."
By Alex Perry
Mark Zuckerberg wants to register 4 million new voters but keep showing them Trump's posts
Facebook's CEO thinks the best way to ensure a well-informed election is to continue hosting misinformation.
By Amanda Yeo
Google's Wing drones deliver library books to Virginia students
Books, from the sky!
By Stephanie Mlot
Google Meet gets its own tab in your phone's Gmail
Meet is now even more closely integrated with Gmail.
EU is investigating Apple Pay and App Store for breaking competition rules
The European Commission has launched two formal investigations into Apple's business practices.
U.S. government requests for Google user data up 510% since 2010, report says
The U.S. government has made more than 163,000 user data requests in 2019 alone.
By Matt Binder
TikTok clone Zynn has been kicked out of Apple's App Store
Where'd the chart-topping app go?
Live roaches and a bloody pig mask: 6 eBay employees accused of threatening a couple over a newsletter
They also sent unsolicited pornography and a book about surviving the death of a spouse.
By Matt Binder
Facebook drives effort to combat deepfakes while enabling misinformation
Facebook wants to be able to automatically and accurately detect deepfakes at scale. It has its work cut out for it.
By Jack Morse
Facebook tests making Messenger slightly more secure with Face ID
Facebook's Messenger isn't end-to-end encrypted by default, and Face ID won't change that.
By Jack Morse
Amazon reportedly facing new probes in California, Washington
Another day, another antitrust headache for Amazon.
Slack finally realized that Slack makes permanent remote work possible
Oh. Yeah. Of course.
By Jack Morse
Automated fact-checking won't stop the social media infodemic
Sorry, tech companies. AI isn't a panacea for misinformation.
By Haidee Chu
Anonymous Camera app automatically blurs faces out of protest photos
No manual blurring needed thanks to this new iPhone app.
By Alex Perry
