July 2020 Culture Articles
- Facebook and Google have to pay Australian media outlets for news
- Black-owned businesses can now be highlighted in Google Search and Maps
- Which face masks work best? / Black queer streetwear designers
- You'll soon be able to pay with Venmo and PayPal at your local CVS
- Using social media as your main news source comes at the cost of critical thinking
- Veni, vidi, visage: Machine learning reveals the hot (and not) Roman emperors
- Impossible Foods is bringing its faux-beef products to Walmart
- The EU is launching an antitrust probe into Google's Fitbit acquisition
- Matt Gaetz's ugly attack on Sundar Pichai had nothing to do with antitrust
- Twitter will suspend accounts that tweet links to hateful content
- Kodak's using government money to pivot to drug manufacturing
- Samsung phones might nix Bixby for Google’s Assistant
- Leaked emails reveal Zuckerberg acquired Instagram to 'neutralize' a competitor
- Facebook’s nostalgic E.gg app is already stealing artists’ work
- The ultrarich are killing the planet / The ultimate underground bunker
- Google and Hulu refuse to run an ad that calls attention to police violence
- Electric moped company Revel is freezing its rental service in New York
- Breitbart is trying to fool us into killing ourselves and Trump is helping
- Twitter suspends Donald Trump Jr. for sharing COVID-19 misinformation
- CES comes to its senses and will go all-digital for 2021
- Zuckerberg wants Congress to know Facebook is just being 'patriotic'
- Target and Walmart may have just killed Black Friday as we know it
- The Tesla of electric bikes / A crazy fast electric motorcycle
- Apple said devs could use its Find My app, then it tightened its grip
- Billionaire Elon Musk doesn’t think Americans need any more stimulus money
- Former Twitter employees say hundreds had access to deeply sensitive internal systems
- Google ad portal matches 'black girls' with porn keywords, but keeps 'white girls' clean
- TikTok’s anti-Semitism problem / A real-life choose-your-own-adventure game
- New York halts use of facial recognition in schools, but only for now
- Facebook won't remove Donald Trump's misleading ad about political unrest
- A DNA-testing and genealogy service was hacked and the cops might have your DNA
- Fox Sports is introducing virtual baseball fans that can do the wave
- Jared Kushner is crying to telecom CEOs so he can spam you with Trump texts
- Twitter has released new data about last week's massive hack
- Apple's study into marketplace commissions is a joke
- Tesla's Cybertruck is going to be built in Texas
- Quibi’s subreddit is the saddest place on the internet
- Facebook is forming new teams to address its ongoing racial biases
- TikTok doubles down on U.S. hiring despite House vote to ban it on government devices
- The queen of useless machines / The magic of Tamagotchi On
- The DHS is monitoring your social media for mentions of statues and monuments
- Twitter thinks it can ‘stop what’s coming’ with massive purge of QAnon
- Working from home during the pandemic is consuming your life, Microsoft study confirms
- Facebook still can't fact-check Donald Trump without tiptoeing around
- Apple pledges to reach complete carbon neutrality by 2030
- AI is helping doctors make decisions but patients seldom know about it
- You can’t go to Iceland, but your screams can
- Facebook is still allowing climate change misinformation to thrive
- The U.K. might reverse its Huawei 5G ban if Trump loses the election
- Nike’s Road Warrior sneaker / Adidas’ new marathon shoe
- Escape the horrors of 2020 by time traveling into a '90s backpack
- Everything is insane and awful. Maybe these photos can explain it.
- Cake disguised as other objects is more unsettling than deepfakes
- There's a place where you can hug a stranger and never get sick
- Mysterious drones seen over Colorado didn't belong to the military. Whose were they?
- IBM took $170M of taxpayer dollars for a website that doesn't exist
- Apple's developer site is leaving racist coding terms in the past
- Hate your favorite band's latest song? On Spotify, it might be a fake.
- Apple’s new design direction / Hackintosh, R.I.P.
- U.S. Army wants big mean Twitch trolls to go away so it can keep trying to impress kids
- Almost half of Google's $10B for India is going to this billionaire
- Fax machines are hamstringing how the U.S. contends with COVID-19
- Trump has found a workaround to the census' blocked citizenship question
- Watch Henry Cavill, noted hot man, learn to build a PC from scratch
- Direct messages on Instagram won't load and people are freaking out
- Twitter’s internal tools were used to hijack verified accounts
- Japan may soon offer a digital version of the yen
- Escape to a new vista without breaking quarantine
- Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Kanye West's Twitter accounts hacked in massive crypto scam
- Google is being sued (again) for ‘blatant lies’ about user privacy
- This journalist isn't real. His destructive stories are.
- Facebook is adding licensed music videos to artists' Pages in August
- Elon Musk's short shorts / Ghislaine Maxwell: secret redditor?
- A creepy World War II Enigma machine hits the auction block
- Airbnb's tone-deaf call for donations to help hosts backfired predictably
- The 'what animal you are' meme is dumb as hell — and that's why it's perfect
- Amazon, suddenly benevolent, says it won't punish workers for handwashing breaks
- Germany won't let Tesla advertise that its cars offer autonomous driving
- It's time to grab the $25 Apple owes you from its iPhone throttling settlement
- Biden will restore net neutrality and invest in rural broadband if elected
- Facebook is using sketchy in-circle tactics to buy advertiser loyalty
- Both the DNC and the RNC have issued warnings to staff about TikTok
- TikTok’s data collection secrets / The joy of Lesbian TikTok
- The week in photos: Strange, scary, strikingly familiar
- Your smartphone addiction probably isn't making you a bad parent, study shows
- Facebook companies can't carry conversion therapy content anymore
- Once mocked, personal pods are now taking off thanks to COVID-19
- This app would call men out in real-time when they hog office discussions
- Twitch's Black Lives Matter video failed spectacularly
- Can Kanye West save the Gap? / The queer streetwear movement
- Microsoft Teams' idea of togetherness is seating disembodied heads at a virtual desk
- TikTok suddenly reset accounts without explanation, sending users into chaos mode
- Jack Dorsey gave $3M to an ambitious guaranteed-income project
- Is Ghislaine Maxwell secretly one of the most powerful Redditors of all time?
- President Kanye West: 'They want to put chips inside of us.'
- This company wants to pay you $1,000 to play Animal Crossing
- An anti-Semitic Auschwitz meme went viral on TikTok and no one noticed
- Damning civil rights audit finds Facebook's policy decisions 'vexing and heartbreaking'
- This map tracks where the U.S. handed out PPP loans
- The secret to amazing Zoom video / Waydoo’s awesome electric surfboard
- Tinder is raking in the big bucks this summer despite COVID-19
- You can now pin your 3 three favorite comments to Instagram posts
- Facebook met the Stop Hate For Profit Campaign, nothing came of it
- Away staff wants co-CEO Steph Korey gone immediately
- Facebook says it's changing its approach to hate speech, but not because we asked
- TikTok could face a U.S. ban despite efforts to placate critics
- 'Randonauting' might get you killed, but it’s better than doomscrolling
- Ugh, Twitter is testing collaborative 'fleets'
- Uber just bought Postmates. What does that mean for drivers?
- Buying books? Screw Amazon! / The radical comic of the moment
- Our strange new world, in photos
- This study figured out what type of homemade face masks actually work
- A journalist does not deserve to be harassed by VCs for doing her job
- Tribeca is reviving the drive-in theater... at Walmart
- This macOS ransomware disguises itself as legitimate system tasks
- Zuckerberg tells staff he won’t change hate speech policies
- Tesla has more Cybertruck pre-orders than the number of cars it's delivered in two years
- This 3D-printed steak hopes to wean people off eating dead animals
- Facebook says it ‘does not profit from hate.’ That's a bald-faced lie.
- Tesla is now the world's most valuable automaker
- Facebook has become too toxic for the world’s biggest brands. It will cost billions.
- Build a killer gaming PC / Photoshop’s most wonderful feature
- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is showing what real action for social change looks like
- Amazon yanks its embarrassing flop of a game and puts it back in beta
