February 2020 Culture Articles
- Unions petition FTC to look into Amazon's anti-competitive practices
- Look at this cool Apple anime commercial
- A Trump-supporting, activist investor just bought into Twitter to try and oust Jack Dorsey
- Amazon ditches GDC and tells employees to halt travel over coronavirus concerns
- Amazon is scrambling to keep up with fake coronavirus cures
- YouTube might let creators sell ad space to the brands they like
- Tim Cook says China factories closed due to coronavirus are 'getting back to normal'
- Lady Gaga's new 'Stupid Love' music video was shot entirely on iPhone 11 Pro
- YouTube TV drops all Fox Regional Sports Networks and YES a month before Opening Day
- Reddit CEO calls TikTok 'parasitic' and 'spyware' — but there’s no evidence to back him up
- Nobody wants Stories on their LinkedIn feed
- Uber introduces text chat translation and more detailed arrival notifications
- Facebook COO thinks TikTok poses a threat to the company, and she's right
- IBM's latest code challenge has climate change in its crosshairs
- Music streaming fuels an industry revenue boom in the U.S.
- Pope Francis wants us to be nicer to each other online for Lent
- An algorithm created every possible music melody so songwriters would stop getting sued
- We need more classes to teach older people to spot fake news
- Report: NSA only found two leads from $100M phone surveillance program
- No, Pete Buttigieg probably isn't getting special treatment in your Gmail inbox
- Apple won’t allow villains to use its products on screen, says Rian Johnson
- Disney CEO Bob Iger hands over the keys to the kingdom
- Juul wants to put a child lock on its vapes to keep the teens away
- The Smithsonian Institute's new open-access image database is a win for everyone
- Foxconn is offering incentives like free meals to bring people back to work amid coronavirus fears
- Amazon’s cashierless, full-sized grocery store opens in Seattle today
- Venmo is testing out debit cards for teens
- Lime scooters triumphantly return to Redmond next week
- Hey did everyone know this emoji was called "please, sir"?
- Uber cars are starting to look a lot more like taxis
- ChilledCow’s lo-fi hip-hop channel has been restored after YouTube screwed up
- Does the CIA use Slack? They’ll never tell
- Quibi's app goes live on iOS and Android
- Bloomberg's gargantuan ad strategy is overwhelming and it's got Facebook on edge
- Of course there are bogus coronavirus 'cures' on Amazon
- MGM Resorts admits hackers exposed personal data of over 10 million guests
- Report: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann’s arrogance pushed the company to failure
- Facebook hit with IRS suit over billions in unpaid taxes
- These feminist chatbots were designed to combat online abuse
- Match.com introduces Date Check-In feature for user safety
- Facebook's ad policies are icing out nontraditional dating apps
- New ride-sharing app Myle promises no surge pricing and better driver wages
- Lyft’s Citi Bikes are returning to NYC after last year’s safety concerns
- Groupon Goods, which no one ever heard of or used, is dead
- Uber is finally launching an on-trip safety reporting feature
- OpenAI’s idealism was no match for capitalism
- Deepfake video in multiple languages is the first of its kind in an Indian election
- Patreon debuts micro-loan feature for creators
- Jake Paul’s ‘Financial Freedom Movement’ is Trump University for YouTubers
- Jeff Bezos pledges a few billion to help tackle climate change
- Kickstarter officially unionizes after close vote
- Tesla's 'Anti-Handbook Handbook' isn't unhinged, it's humanizing
- Massachusetts lawsuit alleges Juul bought ads on Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network’s sites
- The best video games to vent your sexual frustration
- Google rolls out charming emoji mashup stickers in Gboard
- The FTC is about to crack down on influencers, big time. "This is illegal payola."
- Raleigh police cut its Clearview AI subscription short amid criticism
- Nielsen report: Netflix has the upper hand in the streaming wars
- YouTube will now let you tip creators — but it'll pocket 30 percent
- Will the GSMA cancel this year’s Mobile World Congress?
- Reuters partners with Facebook for Fact Check business unit and blog
- Elizabeth Holmes is trying to get her charges dropped ahead of Theranos trial
- The FTC is ordering five of the largest tech companies to release details of every acquisition from the last decade
- Drake signs an exclusive, multiyear deal with live-streaming platform Caffeine
- Canada is cracking down on influencers' marketing tactics
- Federal judge approves merger between T-Mobile and Sprint
- Federal prosecutors charge four Chinese military officers involved in the Equifax breach
- Netflix spent upwards of $100 million plugging its films for Oscar wins
- Airbnb is suspending all Beijing rentals until March due to the coronavirus
- Jack Dorsey says thanks for the cash San Francisco, deuces
- Another altered video of Nancy Pelosi remains on social media despite disinformation policies
- Top tech companies reported an alarming spike in child exploitative content last year
- Netflix has only pulled content on nine occasions at government request
- TikTok's response to a user's suicide livestream is appalling
- New York City police officers will start logging their activities on an iPhone
- Apple Watch sales trounced every Swiss watchmaker in 2019
- The Iowa Caucus app wasn't hacked, but it pretty easily could've been
- TikTok verified a fake Kendall Jenner account before deleting it
- Spotify's podcasts are bringing in more premium users than ever
- The CEO of Mastercard didn't trust Facebook's word on its Libra cryptocurrency project
- Instagram bagged over 25 percent of Facebook's ad revenue in 2019
- Alphabet’s Jigsaw unveils tool to help journalists detect doctored photos
- Cards Against Humanity has acquired ClickHole and given it back to its staff
- Bundles are giving Disney the edge in the streaming wars
- The Iowa Caucus shoulda just used a Google Form
- Ancestry refused a police search warrant for its database of 16 million DNA profiles
- Jeff Bezos spent thousands on parking fines because rules don’t matter to the rich
- Google Photos says it accidentally shared users' videos with strangers
- One of the Iowa Caucus app's biggest points of failure? Boomers.
- Foxconn factories shutter due to coronavirus, stirring concerns about Apple product delays
- Elon Musk is throwing a 'super fun AI party'
- YouTube pats itself on the back for policies that 'support elections'
- Archivists made over 5,000 coronavirus studies public
- Apple News launches 2020 election hub with guides to help you make sense of it all
- Lindsey Graham's bill could radically limit liability exemptions for tech companies
- After petty infighting, Roku and Fox reach an 11th hour deal to continue service
- Prevalence of underage users sparks investigation into dating apps
