December 2020 Culture Articles
- A tech support fraud scheme manipulated the elderly for almost a decade
- Ticketmaster agrees to settlement fines for hacking Songkick's computers
- Electric vehicle owners rarely go back to gas rides, survey finds
- Apple loses early lawsuit against maker of iOS clone used for software tests
- Google’s Stadia finally comes to iOS / Nintendo’s toxic relationship with its biggest fans
- Vybe app flips off public health worries, promotes pandemic parties
- Southeast Asian child laborers pay the price for your Girl Scout Cookies
- What Trump green-lighting the CASE Act means for small creators
- American Airlines is flying the cursed Boeing 737 Max once again
- Apple’s biggest glass supplier is allegedly using forced Uighur labor
- Trump continues to assail TikTok, despite indications he'll lose
- Chatroulette swears it's solving its unwanted pervert problem
- Amazon will end the Kindle Lending Library program next week
- How online beat markets are forever changing music / How Crocs won 2020
- The streaming wars are going nuclear in 2021
- How the world turned against 'I hope this email finds you well'
- Digimon is back and no one told you
- Apple’s Fitness+ workouts are actually fun / A mind-shattering male sex toy
- Tomorrow 221: Silver linings
- The Chinese government wants to criminalize food binge videos
- Shocker: Amazon succeeds by overwhelming and copying the competition
- Social networks are failing to keep up with black-market wildlife trade
- Why Facebook and Apple are feuding / Facebook wants to read your mind
- Civil rights groups fight to stop airports from ramping up facial recognition
- The iPhone 12 outsold all other 5G phones in just two weeks
- Another Google employee has recounted severe racism inside the company
- New internet sex bill could hurt sex workers the most
- Screw Apple Fitness+, the people deserve Digimon Vital Bracelets
- New Orleans police lied about facial recognition tech for years
- Microsoft envisions a passwordless future starting next year
- Dozens of Al Jazeera reporters' iPhones were hacked via NSO spyware
- Harley-Davidson’s rad new e-bikes / A mobile power generator for preppers on a budget
- UK says drivers in self-driving cars shouldn't be liable for accidents
- Trump blacklists China’s leading chipmaker, kind of
- You can watch the Time Square NYE ball drop via VR this year
- NASA blesses Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin with launch contract
- Facebook rolls back News Feed update that aimed to weed-out the BS
- United States bans DJI drones for links to Chinese authorities
- Ultralight titanium gifts for the holidays / The best battery-powered bikes, scooters, and more
- Google just got slammed with a lawsuit from Genius Media Group
- Accounts posing as GOP bigwigs are pedaling Trump junk and CBD oil on Parler
- Miiriya is an Amazon-killer app that supports Black-owned businesses
- The Salvation Army is jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon
- These maps make it easy to understand drone laws around the globe
- The Dread Pirate Roberts’ mother is trying everything to free him
- MacKenzie Scott can’t get rid of her ex’s blood money fast enough
- Let's be real, Google's Blob Opera slaps
- Facebook bought full-page print ads to hide its greed behind small businesses
- Oceana says Amazon's plastic pollution is crushing the world
- Are Apple’s AirPods Max headphones worth $549? / Sony’s rumored next-gen PlayStation Portable
- Pinterest goes public with its gender discrimination settlement
- Fake COVID-19 vaccines are being sold on the darknet
- Pornhub now only accepts crypto, leaving sex workers with the bill
- Congress wants to fine you $30,000 for posting that meme
- TikTok adds mental health resources, hides graphic videos by default
- Schools are using law enforcement-grade phone hacking tech on students
- A synth built from chattering fake teeth is 2020's perfect soundtrack
- A new website hopes to ease your fears about death and dying
- Pornhub just nuked millions of unverified videos following backlash
- How to beautify your PS5 / Please stop making new emoji!
- Facebook has a 'Hate Bait Dashboard' ranking its most problematic publishers
- Tomorrow 219: Cyberpunk'd 2020
- Photos: NYC's 'outdoor dining' is just what COVID ordered
- Spotify’s podcast unions staged a walkout ahead of contract talks
- Netflix let slip its working on a Sonic the Hedgehog animated show
- Disney World got called out for editing masks onto guests' faces in photos
- Internal Twitter code hints at Periscope's imminent demise
- COVID-19 killed celebrity culture as we knew it
- Disney is increasing its price for the first time come March 2021
- GMC’s Hummer goes electric / BMW unveils its sleek, all-electric iX SUV
- Ocean Cleanup plans to scrub the world's 1,000 most polluting rivers
- Parents can now remotely cut off their kids' Xbox playtime
- Instagram makes sexting effortless with new Vanish Mode
- Twitter wants you to share your tweets on Snapchat
- France hits Google and Amazon with massive fines for tracking cookies
- Microsoft, Brooks, Unilever, and others join Amazon's climate change pledge
- Facebook is facing another antitrust probe, this one over Oculus
- Man-made stuff now weighs nearly as much as all living things on Earth
- Security experts say Microsoft downplayed the severity of a Teams hack
- The FTC is suing Facebook for antitrust violations
- YouTube finally bans videos falsely claiming U.S. voter fraud
- Remember Twitter's racist photo-cropping tool? It's still a thing.
- Apple's new privacy labels are unfair and too ambiguous, WhatsApp says
- 5G conspiracy theorists are screwing up their Wi-Fi / Massachusetts poised to ban facial recognition by cops
- Pornhub changes core policies in response to child exploitation allegations
- Rick Astley somehow still dominated Reddit in 2020, despite... everything else
- Japan hopes AI can help encourage its citizens to hook up and get down
- Exxon abandoned a project that would have helped offset its mess
- Yes, snakes really stopped construction on Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory
- TikTok dodges Trump’s executive ban once again
- Microsoft files patent to create chatbots from your dead loved ones
- James Bond's first nineteen movies are now on YouTube for free
- TikTok’s fantastic ‘Ratatouille the Musical’ / Nike’s legendary ‘Freddy Krueger’ SB Dunks
- Ikea’s beloved print catalog is no more
- Tomorrow 218: Faradays and frame rates
- This artist turns pop culture icons into Parisian monuments
- Parler, the self-appointed bastion of free speech, has a porn problem
- This rapping robot named Shimon makes its own rhymes in real-time
- Labels are creating TikTok accounts for dead celebrities now
- Coho salmon are dying and our car addiction is the likely culprit
- The FCC finally admits in-flight personal phone calls are a terrible idea
- This app will get you millions of Instagram and TikTok followers. But only for 15 minutes.
- FTC sounds the alarm on fraudulent Apple and Amazon calls
- This official Pikachu ASMR is meant to be relaxing, we suppose
- Has Netflix become a ripoff? / How Biden’s FCC will improve the internet
- Care about your carbon footprint? Cut down on HD streaming.
- Warner Bros. will let you stream its entire 2021 slate of films at home
- Ex-Spotify intern says interactive Wrapped features was her idea
- Massachusetts could be the first U.S. state to ban facial recognition by cops
- Scientists debut microbots for drug delivery inside blood vessels
- US Labor Board claims Google illegally surveilled, fired workers
- Singapore just granted its first-ever approval to cultivate lab-grown meat
- Japan built itself another damn life-size Gundam suit to spite us
- Trump says he’ll veto military funding if Section 230 isn’t repealed
- This project is attempting to trace the origins of enslaved ancestors
- Comcast will throttle all its internet customers / How Facebook plans to suck up to Joe Biden
- Google Play’s Best of 2020 list is a tour of a stressful year
- 'Wonder Woman 1984' is getting 4K Ultra HD love on HBO Max
- Virgin Orbit is vying for outer space one more time
- A Trump lawyer says former DHS exec 'should be drawn and quartered'
- Quibi is over and its shows may never be seen again
- An ode to Melania Trump's Christmas hellscapes
