August 2020 Culture Articles
- Walmart is probably buying TikTok in the next 24 hours. Yes, Walmart.
- Input: Contact & Ethos Statement
- PPAP singer's duet with Pikachu is the soundtrack to Hell we deserve
- Netflix is offering some of its most popular titles for free to attract new subscribers
- Spotify’s fake song scammers / Another thing wrong with Quibi
- Most of Scottish Wikipedia was written in garbled Scots by an American teen
- A Russian national tried to hack Tesla but got arrested instead
- Tomorrow 204: RNC yourself out
- If you have an iPhone your prospects on dating apps are better
- Someone deepfaked MCU actors visages into the new 'Avengers' game
- Flower businesses are blooming thanks to COVID-19
- Protesters built a guillotine outside Jeff Bezos’ D.C. home
- Twitter cracks down on fake accounts posing as Black Democrat defectors
- These flip-flops made from algae are sticking it to the plastic industry
- Samsung’s fantastic Note S20 Ultra / The dream Game Boy clone
- These blinking AI face masks send a feminist message in the eeriest way
- You can sell your house on Opendoor like it's a purse on Poshmark
- Nobody needs Amazon's body-shaming Halo fitness tracker
- You can be identified by your browsing habits. Yes, you.
- Trump wants to appear serious about quantum computing and AI
- Jeff Bezos being worth $200 billion is a crime against humanity
- CEO of TikTok calls it quits following the company's spat with Trump
- Scooter company Revel is relaunching tomorrow and we're scared
- Facebook intentionally ignored calls for violence before Kenosha shootings
- Apple's iOS 14 could seriously hurt Facebook's digital ad empire
- Quibi turned one of its shows into a feature-length drive-in movie
- Facebook removes two ‘armed citizens’ counter-protest events in Kenosha
- Spotify offers ambient summer noise to pretend you're not at home
- Brace yourself for another wave of scams promising COVID-19 cures
- Palantir's IPO letter is chaotic evil incarnate
- Facebook tightens its grip on Oculus / The Sega Dreamcast lives on
- Black Lives Matter protest art is immortalized in this virtual museum
- Face masks are still thwarting facial recognition systems even as algorithms adapt
- YouTube's coronavirus-induced moderation spree more than doubled video removals
- Facebook debuts new Shop section so you can waste more money you don't have
- Tech companies have no clue how to handle Hong Kong’s new censorship law
- Facebook bowed to Thailand's government and blocked an anti-monarchy group
- Judge rules Apple can't block Epic's access to Unreal Engine tools
- Guns are being sold on Facebook Marketplace through a ridiculous workaround
- Here's what a pandemic-induced VR Burning Man will look like
- TikTok is suing the Trump administration
- Mark Zuckerberg fueled Trump's TikTok suspicions in private White House meeting
- Microsoft’s alluring Surface Duo / Ford’s exhilarating new Bronco
- Facebook brings the hammer down on almost 800 QAnon groups
- Facebook let Indian political leaders spew hate speech ahead of elections
- Facebook is treating anti-fascist content like alt-right fantasy
- Apple just forced WordPress to charge fees so it can take a cut
- Facebook's considering an ad "kill switch" if Trump disputes election outcome
- Apple claims Epic Games asked for unique App Store concessions
- Ramen robots are coming to a Japanese restaurant and we love them
- Forget college and debt, Google wants to get you skilled in six months
- Tomorrow 203: The Economics of Evil
- Nike built a virtual training camp for high school football players
- Airbnb cancels all parties to curb COVID-19 and save face
- Revel’s dangerous scooter business / BMW’s electric car ambitions
- COVID-19 exposes wealth disparity and looming evictions in Silicon Valley
- The Pentagon wants to make American drones great again
- White House begs Supreme Court to let Donald Trump block trolls
- WaPo took Trump's money so he could warn us about the 'Radical Left'
- Lyft and Uber win 11th-hour reprieve, hours before planned shutdown
- Tim Wu agrees with the TikTok ban — and he has a point
- Cops across the U.S. are using facial recognition tech to arrest protestors
- Netflix is trialing a 'shuffle' option to kill analysis paralysis
- Michigan students are being forced to use a vile contact tracing app
- Senate reports Russia and WikiLeaks used Trump lackey Paul Manafort
- Trump endorses Islamaphobic troll House candidate on Twitter
- Facebook sacked the engineer who showed it favored right-wing outlets
- Apple is now worth over $2 trillion, proving walled gardens work
- Apple is purging the Chinese App Store of tens of thousands of apps
- Uber Pass has expanded to 200 U.S. cities, but none in California
- Nike bums out Grateful Dead fans / OnePlus’s middling wireless earbuds
- Brace for the hyper-partisan nano-influencer this election
- How to stop the autoplaying Trump ads dominating YouTube
- The FCC wants to know your opinion on Charter seeking data caps
- A BLM activist was targeted by the NYPD via facial recognition tech
- Amid California heatwave, Tesla asks owners to charge off-peak
- Apple digs its heels in and won’t make any exceptions for Epic
- Trump embraces TikTok rival Triller, but it would rather he didn't
- The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wants to fight racism. It's failing.
- Kanye West says he had a vision for a 'Christian' TikTok: 'Jesus Tok'
- Big Tech will save us all, and it's paying advertisers to remind us
- TikTok shares new transparency hub to ‘set the record straight’
- Would a deepfake Harrison Ford salvage 'Solo: A Star Wars Story?'
- Google fights back against proposed Australian news legislation
- Michael Jordan's 1996 S600 Benz is on auction and could be yours
- Facebook's algorithm amplifies Holocaust denial, new study finds
- Trump’s TikTok obsession / Twitter, quit scaring us!
- Facebook overrules fact-checkers for lucrative conservative pages
- These internet sex educators are picking up where health class left off
- Clearview AI has signed a contract with ICE to offer 'mission support'
- Modified bacteria could make for a more sustainable nylon
- This app could end Apple's monopoly — and Steve Jobs would love it
- Tomorrow 202: This World is Bullshit
- The Sifter is a beautiful database of 5,000 historical cookbooks
- 'Smart' walls made from ordinary bricks could store enough energy to light a house
- The ’90s most visionary TV show / Where to go for virtual hugs
- After undermining democracy, Facebook is directly hurting the environment too
- USPS is shutting down mail-sorting machines right before the surge of absentee ballots
- Epic Games, Apple, and Google just started a digital World War over the Fortnite app
- 'Apple One' subscription bundles could save you money and lock you in
- 'Evangelion' Blu-rays are finally on sale for under $20
- Uber would rather pull out of California than give its drivers benefits
- This 4K, 60 FPS, AI-enhanced video from 1896 is absolutely mind-blowing
- Gen Z phone addiction is good and cool says Billie Eilish x Massive Phone Company
- Tinder makes older men pay the most to use its premium services
- The Marine Traffic app changed the way I look at the ocean
- Apparently the only thing not allowed to kill me is a robot
- Amazon tried to silence podcasters' criticism of the company before hosting their shows
- Trump wants to personally choose what’s allowed on the App Store. That’s absurd.
- OnlyFans responds to viral tweet: No, we're not stealing from users
- Samsung’s new Galaxy smartphones / Gaming on the original Fold
- California ruling forces Uber and Lyft to extend employee benefits to drivers
- Twitter officially rolls out reply guy pest control to all users
- Microsoft employees call TikTok buyout ‘unethical’ in leaked messages
- Blockbuster is back from the dead as '90s themed AirBnB
- Trump embraces socialism with 5G mid-band rollout plan
- Carrd is leading the microsite boom happening amidst 2020's mayhem
- The Contrarian
- Prosecutors say you can't go to jail for a retweet, even if you hurt a cop's feelings
- Amazon eyes abandoned shopping malls as Prime Day looms
- Google’s forgettable Pixel 4a / De'Longhi’s life-changing espresso machine
- Tomorrow 201: Lord of the ROMs
- Chemists have found a way to make the most fluorescent matter ever
- Some genius recreated your favorite retro TV intros with stock footage
- 'Ordinary Sausage' upends our ideas about food and we can't look away
- Facebook has finally removed one of its biggest QAnon groups
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr. wants you to see a parallel world
- Google policing its employees' words won't fix its antitrust problems
- Bill Gates: American COVID-19 tests are 'completely garbage'
- Trump just issued an executive order banning TikTok. 'Fortnite' is next.
- AI experts warn deepfakes could lead to crimes like extortion and terrorism
- Quibi’s sad, lonely subreddit / The ‘Gamer Girl’ controversy
- Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have a plan for if Trump uses Facebook to challenge his defeat
- On top of everything else, Quibi exploits a union loophole to underpay workers
- This AI privacy tool could be hell for facial recognition systems
- You only have 4 days left to own one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever for $5
- Research finds TikTok actually favors Republicans, not Democrats
- An Instagram 'bug' worked in Trump's favor and at Biden's expense
- Twitter, Facebook remove video of Trump spreading medical misinformation
- The real reason Trump is obsessed with TikTok has nothing to do with security
- Revel scooters were never safe for the average person, and the company knew
- OnePlus’s impressive mid-range phone / The North Face’s amazing waterproof tech
- Researchers will use Apple Watch to track signs of depression
- Pepper robots can now call you out for not wearing a mask in public
- Porn-reposting site Thothub is being sued by an OnlyFans creator for stealing her work
- How to hide from drone surveillance according to an expert
- Super Nintendo World sneak peek / Instagram’s delightfully dumb new meme
- Microsoft confirms it wants TikTok, Trump gives it 45 days for deal
- Nikon South Africa releases tone-deaf, whitewashed influencer campaign
- This artist was social distancing way before COVID-19 hit
- Tomorrow 200: Trash Panda
