June 2021 Culture Articles
- It's so hot that Amazon opened a public cooling station in its Seattle HQ
- Bumble is opening a brick-and-mortar ‘safe space’ restaurant
- This startup's eye-scanning crypto orb repped by Azealia Banks sounds terrible
- Trump, noted cyberbully, wouldn’t join Parler unless it silenced his haters
- Amazon is now letting algorithms choose who to fire
- Hackers used LinkedIn's official API to leak tons of data... again
- Sync this classic iPod web app with Apple Music and Spotify for peak 2004 vibes
- Apple products to keep away from medical devices: Basically all of them
- People are just straight-up erecting graven images of Elon Musk now
- YouTube allows far-right lies and bigotry but not the videos calling it out
- These police VR training videos look like 'Call of Duty: COPS' and we hate it
- Ghosted by your sext chatbot? Your cell carrier may be blocking it.
- The binary delusions of Marc Andreessen
- Beeple's new NFT startup feels a lot like a cash grab (and an IP nightmare)
- The Eve 6 guy ranks his very best tweets
- Wirelessly dry your baby with this... Wireless... Baby Dryer?
- Coke's custom Pride label wouldn’t let you write ‘trans,’ will let you praise Nazis
- Kickstarter will trial a four-day workweek to combat burnout
- A GameStop-hating hedge fund is admitting defeat and shutting its doors
- Crypto markets nosedive after China bans all mining in Sichuan province
- Add your name to this petition to get Jeff Bezos to make his space ticket a one way
- U.K. exposé reveals Amazon is destroying millions of unused items annually
- The creator of OnlyFans ran shady and exploitative porn sites in the ’90s
- Some Android users say Google's installing a contract tracing app without consent
- Tech breakthroughs happen like bankruptcy: Slowly at first, then all at once
- Ring had a cop influencer program with the LAPD, because of course it did
- Tall billionaire Bill Ackman pulled strings behind that massive Pornhub dump
- Apple celebrates Pride Month by enabling countries' LGBT+ censorship
- Facebook is rolling out its podcast streaming feature next week
- Airbnb's 'black box' team helps it keep horror stories hushed up
- Google's first brick-and-mortar store is supremely sustainable
- Alpha Motor Company unveils sleek hybrid EV truck and camper
- Chinese prisons and businesses are now using AI 'emotion-monitoring' systems
- A wave of new bills seeks to rein in Big Tech's unbridled power
- I got voted off the island on a 'Survivor'-style Zoom game
- Honolulu police used a robot dog to police a homeless plague camp
- You can now bid actual money on Tiger King NFTs and collectibles
- NSA whistleblower convicted under Trump administration released from prison
- Roger Waters says he denied Zuckerberg's request to use a Pink Floyd track in an ad
- Elon Musk continues toying with crypto markets for fun and profit
- White House walks back Biden's Russia cybercriminal swap comments
- Cybersecurity experts face a new challenge: AI capable of tricking them
- People with disabilities can build their own tech solutions... with the right tools
- Elon Musk demos overhyped game on his overhyped car
- Trump DOJ subpoenaed Apple for personal data of Democrats and their families
- Watch this GOP Rep suggest rerouting the moon to fight climate change
- Bitcoin is officially coming to your retirement accounts
- COVID has highlighted just how bad the digital divide really is
- Ring really doesn't want you to know how much of your data it gave to police
- In a global first, El Salvador votes yes on bitcoin as legal tender
- TikTok is bringing back the Adult Swim bump and we can't get enough
- Damning report shows how Musk, Bezos, other billionaires dodge taxes
- Charter is charging more for Spectrum where there are no other ISPs
- Here's how one mistake took down a huge chunk of the internet this morning
- Jeff Bezos will launch himself into space next month just because he can
- Logan Paul wore his first-edition Charizard card to the Mayweather fight
- Spotify fails users by choosing not to implement simple blocking features
- Pepe the Frog's creator is finally making a profit through NFTs
- eBay is finalizing its divorce from PayPal. Here's what that means for you.
- Elon Musk's obscene economic influence has swallowed ‘Baby Shark’
- Prepare your annual tribute to Bezos: Prime Day arrives this month
- Trump's already shut down his silly little blog because no one cared about it
- Etsy takes direct aim at Gen Z with Depop buyout
- Tesla’s spite-move to Texas may not have been such a clever idea, after all
- First fossil fuels, now meat: Cyber attackers hobble factory farming giant
