Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores, with locations in NYC, London, Sydney, and Redmond being converted to "experience centers" ~tech microsoft Article 350 words 10 votes
Apple will extend the lifespan of your AirPods by choosing when they charge ~tech apple Article 199 words 16 votes
Hamilton is censored on Disney Plus; Lin-Manuel Miranda gives two fucks ~movies Article 972 words 11 votes
Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data ~tech internet privacy Article 606 words 18 votes
Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter ~tech social media Article 4080 words 7 votes
Boston Dynamics will now sell any business its own Spot robot for $74,500 ~tech Article 1177 words 8 votes
Facebook groups are falling apart with drama, infighting, and deleted comments about Black Lives Matter posts ~tech facebook social media Article 2113 words, published Jun 5 2020 4 votes
HBO Max temporarily removes Gone with the Wind because of ‘racist depictions’ ~movies Article 693 words 9 votes
Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement on its board of directors ~tech social media Article 838 words 18 votes
Razer’s Kishi turns your phone into a Nintendo Switch lookalike that can play Google Stadia ~games Article 972 words 5 votes
A rocket launch can’t unite us until the space world acknowledges our divisions ~space spaceflight Article 1057 words 9 votes
Small satellite launcher Virgin Orbit plans to fly its rocket for the first time this weekend ~space satellites rocketry Article 1057 words 7 votes
Researchers claim new internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps over a standard optical fiber cable, using a single integrated chip ~tech internet Article 400 words 9 votes
Nvidia’s AI recreates Pac-Man from scratch just by watching it being played ~tech Article 760 words 12 votes
The wonderful world of Chinese hi-fi - The world of good and cheap headphones from anonymous Chinese companies ~tech Article 2065 words, published Nov 7 2019 20 votes
A hacker is trying to break Ohio’s tool for reporting workers who quit during the pandemic ~tech Article 339 words, published May 8 2020 23 votes
COVID-19 is fueling a boom in the doomsday bunker market, thanks to some dubious marketing claims ~life Article 2075 words 3 votes
Reddit removes new chat room feature after one day in the wake of moderator protests and bugs ~tech social media Article 587 words 33 votes
The saga of Apple’s bad butterfly MacBook keyboards is finally over ~tech apple Article 1201 words 13 votes
Elon Musk lied about the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Tesla Model S test, agency claims ~transport Article 179 words 10 votes
Exam anxiety: How remote test-proctoring is creeping students out ~tech privacy Article 3342 words 9 votes
Elon Musk says shelter-in-place orders during COVID-19 are ‘fascist’—‘Give people back their goddamn freedom.’ ~health Article 218 words 14 votes
DJI’s new Mavic Air 2 has an upgraded camera and much longer flying time ~tech Article 534 words 3 votes
US unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows ~tech Article 1760 words, published Apr 14 2020 21 votes
Answers to questions about Apple and Google’s new coronavirus tracking project ~health Article 2353 words 8 votes
The ancient computers in the Boeing 737 Max are holding up a fix ~transport Article 1706 words 10 votes
Jeff Bezos’ space company is pressuring employees to launch a tourist rocket during the pandemic ~space spaceflight.suborbital spaceflight.commercial Article 2028 words 7 votes
Apple now lets some video streaming apps bypass the App Store cut ~tech amazon apple.app store Article 704 words 6 votes
Airbnb asks its US hosts to provide 100,000 free rentals to first responders ~health healthcare Article 6 votes
Tesla told to shut down California factory to help fight the coronavirus ~tech Article 592 words 10 votes
Joe Biden’s first virtual town hall was an absolute technical nightmare ~tech Article 558 words 12 votes
Google now giving away three months of Stadia access to new Chromecast buyers ~games Article 278 words 9 votes
NASA still doesn’t know if it wants Boeing to perform another test flight of its passenger spacecraft ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 911 words 7 votes
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night released for iOS and Android for US $3 ~games Article 232 words 12 votes
The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas. ~tech Article 5523 words 13 votes
Students say the Lambda School coding bootcamp isn't delivering on its promises, with concerns about poor instruction and prospects while being bound by income-sharing agreements ~tech Article 3866 words 16 votes
Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest phone show, has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns ~tech Article 297 words 9 votes
Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold ~transport Article 571 words 30 votes
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform ~tech Article 1012 words 10 votes