March 2020 Culture Articles
- What it means for an app to be "for women"
- The EFF wants the Supreme Court to prohibit phone searches without a warrant
- General Electric's aviation workers are demanding their employer make ventilators
- Social media is making it harder for us to determine what's worth taking seriously
- Facebook invests $25 million in local news, directs $75 million toward worldwide ad buy
- An Instagram co-founder is using gift cards to save Bay Area restaurants
- Myspace's greatest gift was teaching us how to live online
- Google has banned April Fools Day pranks this year amid coronavirus pandemic
- Dyson will manufacture 15,000 ventilators for UK and international coronavirus efforts
- Patreon is seeing an influx of new creator sign-ups as coronavirus rages on
- Facebook Messenger introduces COVID-19 info hub amid traffic surge
- Yelp added GoFundMe buttons to small businesses' pages without their permission
- Diplo, Ryan Tedder join Twitch's 12-hour charity stream on Saturday
- Startups might be excluded from the COVID-19 stimulus plan
- Natural Light — yes, the beer company — paid my monthly student loan bill
- The Internet Archive suspends waitlists to bring over a million free books to quarantined readers
- Rich? Connected? You can get a COVID-19 test fast
- Facebook is clamping down on 'idle chat' from its now-remote workforce
- Atlanta’s Magic City cam site crashed immediately at launch due to demand
- Amazon is asking customers to pay for its drivers' sick leave. But it's not. But it is.
- Ford is repurposing its factories to produce respirators and ventilators
- Instagram is cracking down on meme pages that go private as a growth hack
- Twitter's struggling to keep up with fake coronavirus content
- Instagram's Co-Watching feature lets you video chat friends to look at posts together
- Part-time Amazon warehouse workers in Chicago have won paid time off for all
- Please don't use the FBI's workout app
- Supreme Oreos are ready to double stuf you this week
- PSA: You can turn off Instagram and Facebook live notifications and you should
- Bandsintown leans into live-streamed shows with push notifications
- Google I/O is completely and utterly canceled
- Don't be a dick — if you watch a comedy or music livestream, pay full price
- Amazon wants consumers to pitch in to fight coronavirus-related price-gouging
- Snapchat's new wellness tools aim to help you cope with coronavirus-fueled anxiety
- Amazon can't keep up with the deluge of Prime Pantry orders from coronavirus preppers
- Relying on AI to police migration could lead to a human rights disaster
- Tesla is still open for business despite a dwindling workforce and being told to close
- TikTok’s new expert content advisory council hopes to rewrite the app’s problematic moderation processes
- Facebook to give employees $1,000 in addition to regular bonuses
- Big Tech and the U.S. government want to track the spread of coronavirus through your phone
- Zuckerberg says it's easier to police pandemic misinformation than political lies
- Universal starts renting new release films at home. Theaters are reeling.
- Supreme drops will be online-only temporarily due to coronavirus outbreak
- TikTok tells moderators to suppress posts by 'ugly' users and censor political speech
- Verily's coronavirus screening site is basically unusable
- Zoom, Slack, and other teleconferencing apps surge in popularity
- Coronavirus forces the FCC to embrace socialism as Pai tells ISPs to stop throttling
- Instagram to hide coronavirus AR effects and prioritize WHO information
- Trump says '1,700 Google engineers' are working on a COVID-19 website
- Research says you'll be happier and healthier if you ditch Facebook
- Japan criminalizes piracy and other copyright infringement for the sake of manga
- IBM hits Airbnb with legal battle over four patents ahead of its IPO
- I'm obsessed with listening to strangers' old Spotify playlists
- The ACLU is suing the Department of Homeland Security over its secretive use of facial recognition software
- Should you "subscribe" to a Volvo? Here's how that works in the real world.
- Study: People are more willing to share their data if they'll be paid for it
- COVID-19 has allowed countries to ramp up digital police states
- YouTube will start allowing monetization for select videos on coronavirus
- Twitter's generic advice for brands when it comes to coronavirus: 'be thoughtful'
- Uber may suspend driver and rider accounts if they have coronavirus
- Tinder scraps release plans for 'Swipe Night' series due to coronavirus fears
- Postmates joins the coronavirus relief effort with new fund to cover workers' medical expenses
- SoulCycle is launching a Peloton competitor that costs more but offers more, too
- New York state is making its own prison-produced hand sanitizer to combat 'Mr. Amazon' price-gouging
- Jack Dorsey will stay as Twitter CEO in deal with activist investors
- Amazon is reportedly working on a cure for the common cold
- This web app monitors the spread of the coronavirus
- Senator calls for financial safeguards for Lyft and Uber drivers affected by coronavirus
- FCC proposes new rules to fight universally-loathed robocalls
- KIDS Act dreams of a safer web for children — but it could hurt YouTubers
- Aw shucks, Jack Dorsey might be canceling his trip to Africa
- Natural gas plant mines 5.5 bitcoins a day with energy that could power 11,000 homes
- SXSW 2020 won't be canceled over coronavirus... for now (updated)
- Twitter, babe, you can't call your new product "Fleets"
- Apple, Twitter, HBO, and more: The companies that have dropped out of SXSW over coronavirus concerns
- Hinge will pay you $100 to get off the app and actually go on a date
- Facebook will run free ads for health organizations to fight coronavirus misinformation
- YouTube's crackdown on conspiracy theories has been (kind of) successful
- ICE sued for rigging an algorithm to incarcerate more immigrants
- U.S. security officials are eyeing TikTok in fight against political disinformation
- Spotify wants artists and labels to pay for in-app promotion
- TikTok has pulled out of SXSW over coronavirus concerns
- Pornhub saunters into the art scene by hosting its first full 'non-adult' film
- Report: Apple and dozens of other companies profit from forced Chinese labor
- Woz bizarrely tweets that he and wife Janet may be 'patient zero' for coronavirus in U.S.
- Sanders and Warren receive the majority of tech workers’ donations
- Twitter stock rises after rumors of investors seeking to oust Jack Dorsey
