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- There’s no reason to trust Amazon’s Choice
- Hundreds of active and former police officers are part of extremist Facebook groups
- Hot Wheels goes digital with smart tracks and NFC cars, exclusively at Apple Stores
- ThinkGeek.com is shutting down and that’s a damn shame
- Watch the first full trailer for Veronica Mars season 4
- Sega does the retro console right with the fantastic Genesis Mini
- Samsung Galaxy Fit now available in the US
- Samsung’s Galaxy Fold might not ship until after the Note 10
- Vergecast: Recapping Code Conference and Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s difficult week
- Amazon hires Washington, DC official who participated in HQ2 talks
| There’s no reason to trust Amazon’s Choice Posted: 14 Jun 2019 04:09 PM PDT  Ever since Amazon introduced its "Amazon's Choice" label in 2015 to recommend certain products, a skeptical world has been trying to find out what the badge actually means — because some items that are "Amazon's Choice" really shouldn't be. Even if a product has the badge and seems to have a high star score, you still might wind up with a stinker that you'd have been warned against if you'd just done your homework, BuzzFeed reports today. Some examples: a $23 breathalyzer that obviously stole positive reviews from entirely different products, and a $20 infant thermometer that Amazon's own user review highlighting tool flags as a "waste of money". So far, no journalist seems to have gotten a straight answer from Amazon about whether the... |
| Hundreds of active and former police officers are part of extremist Facebook groups Posted: 14 Jun 2019 03:27 PM PDT  Hundreds of active and retired police officers and law enforcement personnel are congregating in private Facebook groups where they engage in open racism, Islamophobia, and even lend support to violent, anti-government groups, according to an investigation from nonprofit news organization Reveal, which is run by the US Center for Investigative Reporting. After Reveal notified law enforcement agencies, more than 50 departments have reportedly opened internal investigations. In some cases, departments say they'll be evaluating officers' online activity to see if it may have influenced past policing conduct. At least one officer has been fired for violating department policies as a result of participating in these groups, some of which... |
| Hot Wheels goes digital with smart tracks and NFC cars, exclusively at Apple Stores Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:54 PM PDT  Mattel is introducing Hot Wheels id, which lets kids race their NFC-enabled Hot Wheels on its Smart Track, and scan their collections into a free iOS app. In the app, which acts as a virtual garage, kids can track speed and laps via infrared sensors in the Hot Wheels Race Portal, which scans in your cars and connects to classic Hot Wheels tracks. It sounds great for kids who are into obsessively tracking details, and using cold, hard, data to back up claims on whose car is faster. Companies have tried to find ways to keep classic brands alive by bolting on digital components, but sometimes in ways that felt too forced. Anki Drive, another toy that launched as an Apple exclusive, was a smartphone-controlled racing game with a similar... |
| ThinkGeek.com is shutting down and that’s a damn shame Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:37 PM PDT  After 20 years of serving the nerds of the internet with a wide variety of geek-related merchandise, ThinkGeek will officially close down its website and will migrate its operations over to its parent company GameStop's website instead. In the meantime, the store is holding a 50 percent off "moving sale." By way of explanation, a GameStop spokesperson would only provide the following business-speak: The company is "engaging in a strategic business transformation initiative to build the GameStop of the future," and that as part of that effort "we have made the decision to reorganize our ThinkGeek business by streamlining the operations of our ThinkGeek.com ecommerce platform and transitioning it within our GameStop.com omnichannel... |
| Watch the first full trailer for Veronica Mars season 4 Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:09 PM PDT  Hulu has released a full trailer for its upcoming revival of the cult-classic mystery series, Veronica Mars, picking up the lives of the characters since we last saw them in the 2014 movie. In it, we see that the show's heroine Veronica is back home in Neptune, California, dealing with a new threat to the city. This new season picks up nearly a decade after the show's original three seasons. Veronica is back home and as cynical and witty as ever, and this new trailer shows off a bit of what to expect: Veronica returned home after being away for years, and is working as a private detective alongside her father. After a series of bombings devastate the town during spring break, they're pulled in by one of the victim's families to find out... |
| Sega does the retro console right with the fantastic Genesis Mini Posted: 14 Jun 2019 11:30 AM PDT  Retro consoles are bittersweet little gadgets. They pack a ton of nostalgia, must-have-it miniature console design, and properly licensed software into a mostly affordable package that will, inevitably, mostly go unused sitting on your shelf. That's because they are often cumbersome to play, and as gadgets teetering close to the edge of becoming cash grabs, they're not really designed to be more robust than the emulator solution a teenager could hack together on a cheap laptop. The Sega Genesis Mini, on the other hand, is a great example of how a company can do its best to avoid those pitfalls. Sega brought the device, slated to start shipping in September for $79.99, to E3 this year, and I got to have some hands-on time with it at the... |
| Samsung Galaxy Fit now available in the US Posted: 14 Jun 2019 11:11 AM PDT  Samsung's newest activity tracker, the Galaxy Fit, is now available through Samsung's website for $99.99. The device comes in two colors, black or silver, and features a 0.95-inch AMOLED display; a 120mAh battery; 2MB of RAM; 32MB of storage; and pairs with phones over Bluetooth. It's water resistant, too, and tracks heart rate. While Samsung has focused on its smartwatches recently, the idea behind the Fit is to bring more robust tracking to the minimal fitness band. The Fit can track up to 90 exercises, including six that it can automatically detect, like walking, running, elliptical, cycling, rowing, and dynamic workouts. It'll also track sleep and other heath goals through Samsung's Health app and should last up to a week on a single... |
| Samsung’s Galaxy Fold might not ship until after the Note 10 Posted: 14 Jun 2019 11:01 AM PDT  Samsung reportedly may be missing a July ship date for the delayed Galaxy Fold, according to a company official speaking to The Korea Herald, seemingly denying rumors from earlier in June that the company was looking at a July release. "If we are running such a media event this month, we should be doing something by now," said a Samsung official. "Nothing has progressed since the April delay." If true, that would put the earliest release date for the Fold sometime in August, at which point Samsung could just hold off the announcement to allow the Fold to launch alongside the upcoming Galaxy Note 10 (assuming the company isn't worried that the two big-screened phones could... |
| Vergecast: Recapping Code Conference and Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s difficult week Posted: 14 Jun 2019 09:54 AM PDT  Fresh off of Code Conference, Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki's apology and difficult week, and consider whether there's any viable alternative to Youtube amid all the backlash the company's received in recent weeks. They also discuss the leaked photo of the upcoming Pixel 4 and ponder the strategy behind the leaked photo. And later, a recap of what happened at E3 from Megan Farokhmanesh and some video game and hardware updates from the Vergecast crew. And finally, Paul's segment. You can hear all that and more on this week's Vergecast. Stories discussed this week: |
| Amazon hires Washington, DC official who participated in HQ2 talks Posted: 14 Jun 2019 09:45 AM PDT  One of the DC government's top economic development officials, who tried to charm Amazon into building its second headquarters in the District, will be stepping down to work for the tech giant in the coming weeks. Brian Kenner, DC's deputy mayor for planning and economic development, helped lead the Mayor Muriel Bowser administration's "Obviously DC" campaign. The campaign was aimed at tempting Amazon to locate a new headquarters in the DC metro area, using a combination of tax credits and other incentives. The effort ultimately failed, with Amazon initially splitting up its second headquarters between Long Island City in NYC and a Northern Virginia headquarters just outside DC. Months later, New York officials rallied against the deal,... |
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