October 2020 Culture Articles
- Uh, guys, I think we’re all trapped in a B horror movie
- Joe Biden's campaign is pissed about Facebook's ad removals
- Expensify’s Biden endorsement rained hell on employees. They stand by it anyway.
- Kanye's dead dad hologram gift to Kim Kardashian is deeply disturbing
- Zuckerberg says Apple's ad tracking plans will hurt small businesses
- Study shows heart rate monitors are good for ranking jump scares, not horror movies
- The surprising Surface Laptop Go / Mercedes-Benz’s otherworldly concept car
- Amazon bombed its first impression on Sweden with embarrassing mistranslations
- Millions of people in the U.S. and Canada are ditching Facebook
- YouTubers can't stop destroying the iPhone 12
- Soylent co-founder's rant about voting for Kanye reeks of privilege and ignorance
- Americans are obsessed with digitally stalking their loved ones
- Facebook has been charging Biden double what Trump pays for ads
- Intrepid hackers have succeeded in jailbreaking the Oculus Quest 2
- TikTok is the social platform with the best plan for the election
- The House on Blue Lick Road is 2020's creepiest online find
- ‘Borat’ changed how I felt about growing up Jewish in the Deep South
- A new way influencers fake being rich / Why we need Apple Pay more than ever
- Filtertune lets you design your own filters without relying on Facebook's tools
- Your Instagram Live rants can last 4 hours now and won't disappear for a month
- Google will ban political ads after polls close on election day
- Waiting to upgrade your phone could do wonders for the planet
- It's time for movie theaters to die so movies can live again
- Facebook’s post-election mitigation plan is reactionary and dangerous
- Fact-checkers can't keep up with Trump's growing lie count
- Racist algorithms are keeping Black patients from getting kidney transplants
- Water on the moon may be right within astronauts' reach
- What Netflix’s ‘Sneakerheads’ series gets right / Jordan Brand goes all in on womenswear
- Tomorrow 212: Contactless
- ClipDrop is a wild AR app that lets you copy and paste from the real world
- The film 'Steve Jobs' nailed one crucial detail about how Apple works
- Activists urge Facebook workers to expose internal discussions on free speech
- A lump of coal for you: Charlie Brown holiday specials will run on Apple TV+ only
- Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and others caught hosting Nazi songs
- The deepfake porn threat / The fight against racist porn
- Duolingo is packing Spanish lessons into a true crime podcast
- This hero is mapping every broken McFlurry machine in the U.S.
- Airbnb hires ex-Apple designer Jony Ive as IPO looms
- Activists are using facial recognition on the police
- Facebook accidentally spread QAnon info while trying to limit it
- France's bizarre laws around Wi-Fi tracking are a threat to us all
- TikTok promises to curb hate speech and racist content
- Trump wants to give a GOP-supported firm 5G spectrum for free
- Racial inequality has cost America trillions of dollars
- Influencers are buying empty shopping bags to pretend they're rich
- Quibi is calling it quits and shutting down
- Democrats want to rein in social media protections of Section 230, too
- Should Twitter and Facebook ban questionable stories? / Why your iPhone 12 won’t come with EarPods
- Zuckerberg will revert Facebook to a chaotic free speech haven post-election
- Impossible Foods' next trick? Milk, minus the cow.
- Bots on Telegram are making deepfake nudes for free
- For today only, you can get a refurbed iPhone XR for $369
- Google calls DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit ‘deeply flawed’
- The National Archive is finally digitizing Indigenous treaties
- ‘IRL’ is a book (and a game) that’ll change the online (and offline) you
- The Justice Department has filed its antitrust suit against Google
- Disney Plus updates its unskippable content warnings for racism
- Apple Music TV launches for free as a 24-hour music video channel
- A swarm of finger-paint robots might be our lamest apocalypse yet
- Trump warns that Biden may 'listen to the scientists'
- Amazon's Dash smart shopping carts might violate a 2017 patent
- Conservatives are mad no one likes their latest spin on eugenics
- Which iPhone 12 is right for you? / The ultimate foodie database
- Tomorrow 211: Ruthless
- Grocery chains held out on Apple Pay. COVID-19 might change that.
- Tesla quietly killed its 'no questions asked' 7-day return policy
- The moon is getting 4G coverage thanks to Nokia and NASA
- Amazon isn't doing anything to make it easier for employees to vote
- Trump thought joke about Twitter crashing to help Biden was real
- Prime Day has officially replaced Christmas as the most American holiday
- Facebook’s long overdue QAnon ban / Adidas’ insane spiderweb sneakers
- Google's new 'Hum to Search' feature is a blessing
- FCC is coming for social media after decision to curb a controversial news story
- Trump's campaign has run thousands of Facebook ads using doctored photos of Joe Biden
- USPS workers are faking delivery data to save plummeting resources
- Uber claims Prop 22 'will save lives' when it might ruin them
- I rode the Zero SR/F and I will never get on a gas motorcycle again
- Tesla pushes back against Massachusetts’ right-to-repair initiative
- Twitter and Facebook are limiting the spread of an 'NYPost' story
- Google's AI-assisted Journalist Studio tools could actually be useful to reporters
- Hackers leaked tons of webcam and home security footage on porn sites
- We won! OnePlus no longer pre-installing Facebook apps and services on phones
- Social media shows just how sad people are right now, researchers say
- Google’s new Pixel 5 and 4a 5G phones / Roman emperors get a digital makeover
- Logic officially owns this first edition Charizard Pokemon card
- Facebook chips in to save historic WWII code-breaking center
- Why Apple didn't drop the iPhone 12's Lightning port for USB-C (again)
- Tokyo now has an 'adult theme park' thanks to a local porn company
- COVID-19 remains infectious on your phone screen for almost a month
- Want to make a smooth $20K? Just disparage Big Tech on TikTok
- Facebook finally banned Holocaust denial — but other genocides are fine
- Want the best Prime Day deals? You’ll have to ask Alexa.
- Facebook banned blackface. Judging by Instagram filters, you’d never know.
- Ziplining into Godzilla's mouth is why we can't wait to travel again
- Lady Gaga teams up with Zynga for a mental health awareness campaign
- Twitter won't let you retweet false tweets from power users or Trump
- Tomorrow 210: The Lovecraft Boys
- Nobody wants to buy Quibi and nobody's surprised
- Boston Dynamics' Spot robot can drag its victims into mines now
- Researchers used AI to trick our perception of time
- Yelp will slap a warning on restaurants run by racists - but will it work?
- Spotify is going full 'Minority Report' with its new personality patent
- Apple's App Store policies are 'Mafia extortion' says ProtonMail CEO
- The problem with Nike and Supreme drops / Make your sneakers levitate
- The federal government is trying to undo the ruling that blocked the TikTok ban
- Telepath wants to be social media's 'kindest' app. Good luck.
- There are too many emoji and it has to stop
- Peloton has a new exercise: policing QAnon on its platform
- Uber is fighting gig-worker protections with pushy app notifications
- Facebook is using brute force to silence its critics online
- Trump says he won’t waste his time on a virtual debate
- Trump’s antibody treatment wouldn’t exist without legal abortions
- Facebook will ban political ads on, and after, election day
- Etsy will remove any QAnon merch it finds on its platform
- The IRS bought smartphone location data to hunt down fraud suspects
- Tesla claims one of its factories was the victim of 'malicious sabotage'
- Coinbase’s controversial “no politics” policy / A sleek-looking DVR for the radio
- This site lets you type out entire novels to brush up on your skills
- Surprising nobody, Big Tech employees are overwhelmingly donating to Biden
- Amazon is looking into software to spy on union-sympathetic workers
- Facebook thinks these onions are too sexy for your timeline
- House Democrats to Big Tech: Despite what you think, you're not above the law
- The White House is relying on email alone for COVID-19 contact tracing
- Exxon plan for climate change is no plan at all
- Trump rages at Facebook and Twitter after they flag his COVID post
- Beyond Meat's burgers are finally coming to McDonald's... but there's a catch
- The — and I cannot stress this enough — strange rise of 'and I cannot stress this enough'
- Twitter suspended climate activists' accounts for weeks by mistake
- Caltech is working on a rapid, at-home COVID-19 test
- This Google Doc is more informative about COVID-19 than the government
- Travis Scott’s meaningless collaborations / Black metal meets video games
- We talked to the people behind the 12-foot tall skeleton
- Tomorrow 209: Superspreader
- Airbnb, Intuit, and Disney grossly underpay call center reps
- LinkedIn's war against QAnon is far more effective than Facebook's
- Disney lays off 28,000 workers a month after restoring executive salaries
- See the magic of insects taking flight at 3,200 FPS
- Facebook mods are getting forced to physically return to work
- Twitter will delete tweets wishing death on Trump
- Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams,' a forever mood, can't stop going viral
- Amazon says that more than 19,000 workers have contracted COVID-19
- Twitter promises a fix for its racist image cropping algorithm is coming soon
- Facebook played a major role in the growth of QAnon
- Google Tone/Transfer turns any audio into an instrument
- Amazon is tracking American opioid usage, but to what end?
- Facebook is failing to stop QAnon co-opting hashtags with lies
- What’s wrong with Samsung’s Note S20 Ultra / The Tesla of electric skateboards
- SpaceX wants to keep pleasure boats away the next spaceship landing
- As the world burns, we make it all about ourselves on Twitter
- Forget food deliveries: MissionGo's drone carried a kidney across Nevada
- Facebook's 'Forecast' app shows it has no self-awareness — or is taunting us
- Amazon's pulling Proud Boys merch with Trump's debate quote on it
- Google's $1 billion fund for news publishers sounds like fancy PR
- Not everyone loves that YouTubers are upscaling historical footage to 4K
- The hottest phone of 2020 is the BlackBerry Classic
- Research suggests 'liking' an article means you didn't really read it
- These AI bots took your captions and made creepy photos out of them
