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- Inside the climate change lawsuit pitting Big Oil against San Francisco and Oakland
- Google Home speakers outsold Amazon’s Echo line for the first time last quarter
- Battlefield V’s creators: female characters are ‘here to stay’
- Apple will start reporting government requests to remove apps from the App Store
- How sensors are giving us another way to peek inside our bodies
- I don’t know why GDPR is so funny, but it is
- Facebook’s new political ad rules could upend June 5th primaries
- Facebook has an official Pepe the Frog policy
- Vergecast: Elon Musk, dongle conspiracy, and Zuckerberg visits the EU
- US space startup Rocket Lab sets new date for first commercial launch
| Inside the climate change lawsuit pitting Big Oil against San Francisco and Oakland Posted: 25 May 2018 05:04 PM PDT  On May 24th, the line outside of Courtroom 12 at the United States District Court in San Francisco was dense enough that two lawyers behind me worried they wouldn't get seats. So, they jumped ahead in the line to witness the latest volley in San Francisco and Oakland's fight against the fossil fuel industry. The two cities are suing five major oil companies in an effort to hold them financially responsible for their role in global warming. The oil companies — Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP — don't deny that climate change is happening, but they do argue that they can't be sued for it. And that's what Thursday's hearing in front of Judge William Alsup was about: whether the case should be dismissed. When... |
| Google Home speakers outsold Amazon’s Echo line for the first time last quarter Posted: 25 May 2018 02:28 PM PDT  Over 3.1 million Google Home speakers were sold during the first quarter of 2018, beating Amazon's 2.5 million Echo devices for first time since the two companies began competing in the smart speaker market. It's worth remembering Amazon has outsold Google in the smart speaker market every quarter, since at least the beginning 2017, according to Canalys. Amazon remains the overall market leader, though Google is quickly catching up. Looking at the bigger picture of Google, Amazon, and Apple — now the big three in the smart speaker market — a total of 4.1 million speakers were sold in the US during the same time period, the most in the world. It turns out China and South Korea are second and third in the global market, with 1.8 million... |
| Battlefield V’s creators: female characters are ‘here to stay’ Posted: 25 May 2018 01:25 PM PDT  The reveal of the new WWII first person shooting game Battlefield V prompted a strong reaction from some fans, but not exactly in the way its developer, DICE, might have intended. Online, a contingent of disgruntled players has been pushing back against the "inaccuracies" of the game, specifically the developer's decision to include female soldiers on the frontlines. But DICE has a message for these angry voices: their female characters aren't going anywhere. On Twitter, DICE general manager Oskar Gabrielson addressed the dustup. "First, let me be clear about one thing," he says. "Player choice and female playable characters are here to stay. We want Battlefield V to represent all those who were a part of the greatest drama in human... |
| Apple will start reporting government requests to remove apps from the App Store Posted: 25 May 2018 01:10 PM PDT  Apple issued one of its bi-annual transparency reports today, and apart from the usual numbers on account takedown requests, the company issued a statement saying that it'll soon start reporting government requests to take down apps from the App Store. These requests will relate to alleged legal and / or policy provision violations, Apple says. These numbers will tell us just how often governments are trying to block access to certain apps, and how many of those orders are actually obeyed. Google doesn't yet report these numbers specifically for the Play Store. I'd be interested to know why the requests were filed and what apps were affected, but Apple hasn't said if it'll call apps out by name. As for takedown requests over the last... |
| How sensors are giving us another way to peek inside our bodies Posted: 25 May 2018 12:04 PM PDT  The bacteria, molecules, and chemicals in our bodies hold important clues about our health, and scientists are creating sensors that can tap into this information in the easiest way possible. These are sensors that can be swallowed to warn of gut trouble, implanted to monitor how well an injury is recovering, or just sit on teeth to track the state of your mouth. The gut sensor is about the size of a pen cap, and it's filled with bacteria that scientists genetically engineered to detect a compound in blood called heme, and then glow if heme is present. The sensor can pick up the glow of the bacteria, and then ping a smartphone app. (In the future, it could pick up other compounds, too.) The sensor has only been tested in pigs so far,... |
| I don’t know why GDPR is so funny, but it is Posted: 25 May 2018 11:48 AM PDT  GDPR stands for the "General Data Protection Regulation." It's the most important data privacy law thus far, the convoluted product of a four-year deliberative process, a "staggeringly complex" law that "no one understands," an 88-page monster translated into 26 different languages. GDPR is 56,000 words, which is about the length of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. It should not be funny. But it is. It's hilarious, and I don't know why.
I found myself scrolling through the #GDPRmemes hashtag the other day. The hashtag... |
| Facebook’s new political ad rules could upend June 5th primaries Posted: 25 May 2018 11:11 AM PDT  Facebook introduced new disclosure rules for political advertisements this week designed to block bad actors from meddling in elections. But in the meantime, the rules are blocking legitimate candidates from buying Facebook ads — and at least one congressional candidate in Mississippi says it could tip the election toward his opponent. The rules that Facebook implemented in the United States this week require anyone wishing to buy a political ad to verify their identity. To do so, Facebook mails a card to their physical location containing an authorization code. Only after the candidate or advocacy group enters that authorization code on Facebook can they purchase political ads. Facebook began allowing political advertisers to start the... |
| Facebook has an official Pepe the Frog policy Posted: 25 May 2018 09:47 AM PDT  Facebook's internal policies on Pepe the Frog — now considered an anti-Semitic hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League — offer a little leeway for what is allowed on its platform. Documents obtained by Motherboard show that the platform doesn't outright ban Pepe images, but rather, it only deletes them if shown "in the context of hate, endorsed by hate groups to convey hateful messages." While Pepe began his life as a cute, relatable meme, bad actors have since co-opted the character for their own hateful ideals. Pepe's creator, Matt Furie, has officially killed the character and even gone as far as sending takedown notices to alt-right sites and suing conspiracy theorist site Infowars for MAGA posters it sold featuring the character. F... |
| Vergecast: Elon Musk, dongle conspiracy, and Zuckerberg visits the EU Posted: 25 May 2018 09:34 AM PDT  Are you driving somewhere for the holiday weekend? Here at The Verge, we'd like to encourage you to use a car that's wholly, or at least primarily, powered by dirty fossil fuels. On this week's episode of The Vergecast, Nilay, Natt, Casey, and Paul discuss how we're financially beholden to Big Car and what to do about it now that Elon Musk has called us out on our bias. We also got a chance to discuss Nilay's bonkers theory about Apple's dongle suppression campaign, Mark Zuckerberg's wacky trip to the EU, and we spoke with unearned confidence about Dieter's hands-on with the RED Hydrogen One phone. Paul's weekly report on robots that do backflips is, of course, also something that happened. 01:50 - Elon Musk 27:54 - RED Hydrogen One... |
| US space startup Rocket Lab sets new date for first commercial launch Posted: 25 May 2018 09:00 AM PDT  US spaceflight startup Rocket Lab has scheduled new dates for its first commercial rocket launch — a mission dubbed "It's Business Time." The company plans to launch its small rocket, the Electron, sometime between June 23rd and July 6th. The rocket will take off from Rocket Lab's New Zealand launchpad and carry five small satellites to orbit for customers, kicking off a busy year of commercial operations for the launch provider. Rocket Lab originally hoped to do this mission back in April, but the company had to postpone after it noticed some strange behavior with the rocket. After propping up the Electron on the launchpad and filling it with fuel, the engineering team found that a critical motor responsible for controlling the pumps... |
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