April 2020 Culture Articles
- 7 days in quarantine with Rachelle Vinberg, star of HBO's 'Betty'
- That gnarly electric bike from 'Westworld' is actually real, and you can order it right now
- No, AI can't be inventors, U.S. patent office rules. Humans only.
- Tim Cook spent hours failing to teach Warren Buffett how to use an iPhone
- Elon Musk loses it over coronavirus: 'This is fascist ... what the f**k?'
- New York gave $69 million to an engineer after he tweeted at Trump about ventilators
- What is wrong with Elon Musk?
- Adult FriendFinder launches its version of Zoom... for orgies
- Lyft will cut almost a thousand jobs due to plummeting rideshare demand
- The Oscars will consider streaming-only movies this year due to COVID-19
- Spotify: Podcasts are down, 'household chore' music is booming
- Exclusivity is on pause as YouTube and Tribeca team up for free global film festival
- Jay-Z's label pulls deepfake videos from YouTube over copyright infringement
- CEO of surveillance startup Banjo was a 'foot soldier' for the Ku Klux Klan
- Influencers are giving out cash for clout and calling it COVID-19 relief
- The U.K. will not use Google and Apple's contact-tracing technology
- Volkswagen CEO says the company needs a 'Tesla catch-up plan' in leaked memo
- Disney goes to the dark side, tries to trademark #Maythe4th
- The Library of Congress is launching an open-source DJ sampling tool
- Travis Scott's trippy 'Fornite' concert is now on YouTube
- Tesla laid off its janitors and bus drivers and now they're struggling to make ends meet
- Amazon accessed third party sellers' information for its own business
- Dozens of SXSW's short films are now streaming through Mailchimp
- Was CES ground zero for the COVID-19 pandemic?
- Facebook let advertisers target users interested in pseudoscience even during the pandemic
- Tesla rival Nikola claims Musk's company stole its big rig ideas
- Fyre Festival's extremely thirsty producer is hosting a virtual music festival
- YouPorn debuts its 'Wheel of Foreplay' to boost intimacy during COVID-19
- Google is testing its Question Hub in the U.S. to find gaps in COVID-19 info
- Far-right extremists are circulating leaked credentials from the Gates Foundation, WHO, and NIH
- Spotify gives its podcasts the playlist treatment with three new curated sections
- The one percent are fleeing for New Zealand to avoid COVID-19
- Amazon workers aren't getting the paid sick leave the company promised
- Whole Foods is tracking which stores are most likely to unionize
- These anti-quarantine Facebook groups all suspiciously link to the same gun rights organizers
- Shopify's stock is surging on the back of insane demand for its services
- This OnePlus 8 ad with Robert Downey Jr. will make you hate rich people but miss parties
- Elon Musk is either a bad liar or doesn't know what a ventilator is
- You can now react with virtual hugs and pulsating hearts on Facebook
- Bill Gates comes up in a massive amount of COVID-19 conspiracy theories
- No, you don't need a tracker for your sourdough bread starter
- TikTok cuts off DMs for users under 16 and will let parents set screen time limits
- Jeff Bezos wants to test every Amazon employee for COVID-19
- Jeff Bezos is richer than ever in the age of the coronavirus
- Meat freezers have become a coronavirus prepper must-have on Amazon
- Before COVID-19, Tinder was a hot mess. Now it's just a mess.
- Relax, a little screen time isn't preventing your kids from developing social skills
- Students often overlook the quality of information online, study shows
- The band Real Estate launches virtual 'quarantour' web app
- Hear the panic of police scanners merge with ambient sounds on ‘You Are Listening To’
- Amazon's grocery service is now waitlisting new customers
- Apple makes select Apple TV+ content free for a limited time
- The phone call is making a comeback thanks to social distancing
- Customers are playing a cruel game of bait-and-switch with Instacart workers
- Rihanna and Jack Dorsey's foundations team up to help domestic violence victims during COVID-19 lockdowns
- Disney+ has already surpassed its 50 million subscribers milestone
- A damning investigation reveals Clearview AI's deep ties to white supremacists
- Insane Clown Posse is offering 'Custom Clown Clips' for fans in lockdown
- A queer night in: Getting lost at Club Quarantine
- Amazon is letting neo-Nazis and white supremacists publish anything they want to its e-bookstore
- Zoom beefs up security efforts with new advisory board and taps former Facebook exec
- Amazon slightly relents on sick pay, offers some coverage to workers with fevers
- Lady Gaga rallies tech developers to 'build a solution' in global fight against COVID-19
- Jack Dorsey moves a chunk of Square stock toward COVID-19 relief
- Hinge's new 'Date from Home' feature will keep you from moving too fast
- Facebook is serving users a COVID-19 survey meant to track the virus
- Social media
- Naborly app is encouraging landlords to report tenants who missed April rent
- Want to know if you'll be getting a slice of the stimulus pie? This calculator can help
- Facebook is pushing gift cards to support small businesses hurting due to COVID-19
- Google location data shows how effective coronavirus lockdown policies have been
- The call for pandemic productivity is class warfare in disguise
- Leaked Amazon memo shows executives disparaging fired warehouse organizer
- HBO will let you watch roughly 500 hours of content for free if you stay home
- Amazon and SXSW will host a 10-day online film festival this month
- COVID chaotic: the best sh*tposts from around the web
- Thank god for the internet
- Amazon bans sale of COVID-19 supplies, including masks, gloves, and sanitizers, to the public
- Trump accelerates climate change by loosening fuel economy requirements
- Amazon held packed hiring events at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak
- The Winchester Mystery House is offering virtual tours of its spooky mansion
- YouTube is still full of fake COVID-19 cures and bogus mask sales
- UberEats will begin delivering groceries in Paris with plans to expand
