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Google is accused of union busting after firing four employees
Watch Google Assistant’s new Ambient Mode in action for the first time
Fiat Chrysler is shopping for EV tech from damaged startups like Faraday Future
Allbirds tells Amazon it forgot to steal the most important part of its shoe
How to get your money back after a bad purchase
The Monopoly Longest Game Ever edition proves that Hasbro is just trolling now
Musicians plan to remove their music from Amazon to protest its ties with ICE
Facebook launches new market research app after shutting down its controversial VPN service
Netflix reopens iconic New York theater to showcase its most prestigious films
Pirate Radio: a special series from The Verge

Google is accused of union busting after firing four employees

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 06:42 PM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

On November 22nd, roughly 200 Google employees and supporters rallied to protest the suspension of two colleagues, Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland, for allegedly accessing internal information they shouldn't have in the course of their worker activism. Now, it appears Google has fired both those workers, as well as two other employees who participated in the rally.

Bloomberg reports that Google sent out a company-wide memo today confirming that it had fired four employees for "clear and repeated violations of our data security policies," saying those workers "were involved in systematic searches for other employees' materials and work," continued to do so after warnings, and leaked some of that information outside the company. Google...

Watch Google Assistant’s new Ambient Mode in action for the first time

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 03:51 PM PST

Image: Google

Google posted a new video today showing its upcoming Ambient Mode feature for Google Assistant in action on an Android device. The company first announced Ambient Mode at IFA in September. The mode shows onscreen items like calendar info, notifications, weather, and smart home controls on your lock screen when your phone or tablet is plugged into a charger. It effectively turns your phone into a smart display and until now, we didn't know how it would actually function in real time.

Ambient Mode looks pretty handy — even if it might be seems somewhat duplicative of functionality you'd already find on a Google Nest Hub, as my colleague Dieter Bohn pointed out in his original article. But, in theory, it seems like Ambient Mode could tell...

Fiat Chrysler is shopping for EV tech from damaged startups like Faraday Future

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 03:33 PM PST

Photo credit should read MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images

In October, Fiat Chrysler CEO Mike Manley told investors that he's open to making cars powered by other companies' electric vehicle technology. But Fiat Chrysler (FCA), which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, is doing more than just considering the idea. The Verge has learned the automaker is in talks with at least two distressed EV startups about leveraging their technology to build electric Fiat Chrysler vehicles — namely Faraday Future and Seres (formerly known as SF Motors).

The discussions were described to The Verge by current and former employees of each startup (who were granted anonymity because of nondisclosure agreements with their respective companies) and both are at different stages. Faraday Future retrofitted one of FCA's...

Allbirds tells Amazon it forgot to steal the most important part of its shoe

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 02:28 PM PST

Photo: Allbirds

Allbirds co-CEO Joey Zwillinger has waded further into the ongoing debate over Amazon's propensity for cloning popular products, penning a short Medium post slamming the company's copycat behavior and offering to help the e-commerce giant make its version more environmentally friendly.

Amazon made headlines earlier this year when its private label brand, 206 Collective, began selling a shoe that copies the most distinctive features of Allbirds' namesake runners. Amazon has employed a similar tactic across numerous industries by spinning up cheaper versions of its products across dozens of private label brands that do not bear the Amazon name. That's gotten the company in trouble with regulators overseas and made it a competitor of some...

How to get your money back after a bad purchase

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 02:25 PM PST

According to the Consumer Federation of America, of the top ten consumer complaints in 2018, the third most frequent was concerned with retail sales: "False advertising and other deceptive practices, defective merchandise, problems with rebates, coupons, gift cards and gift certificates, failure to deliver."

We all like to think that the retailers we buy from, either online or in person, are trustworthy, reasonably honest, and willing to honor their guarantees (as long as you pay attention to the small print). However, there are times when things go wrong: a package goes to the wrong address, a phone arrives with a ding in the case, the new TV set turns out to be the wrong model.

The Monopoly Longest Game Ever edition proves that Hasbro is just trolling now

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 02:13 PM PST

Image: Hasbro

If you're looking for a familiar game to play this Thanksgiving that could also eat up the weekend and destroy your entire family, Hasbro's got you covered with a brand-new version of Monopoly called "Monopoly Longest Game Ever" edition, which is available exclusively on Amazon right now for $19.99 (via BleedingCool).

If you thought Monopoly was a long game before, this version will probably be pure torture. The only way to win is to own every purchasable square in the game — and there are now 66 properties, with three versions of each one. There's only one die (down from two) so it will take you an extra-long time to cross the whole board. In perhaps the most brutal rule, you are allowed to rip your bills in half so that your money goes...

Musicians plan to remove their music from Amazon to protest its ties with ICE

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 01:49 PM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

A group of musicians and activists is calling for artists to pull their music from Amazon's music streaming service until it ends its ties with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), as spotted by Stereogum. The group, No Music For ICE, was formed under the nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future last month, initially asking artists to sign a pledge to boycott performing at Amazon-sponsored events.

Now, in a new letter, No Music For ICE is calling for artists to go one step further and remove their music from Amazon's streaming service, starting on Black Friday and continuing through "the holiday shopping & travel season, when music sales are often at their peak."

In the letter, the group says it's going the route...

Facebook launches new market research app after shutting down its controversial VPN service

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 12:27 PM PST

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Facebook has a new market research app launching today called Viewpoints, just a few months after the company introduced an Android data collection app called Study designed to monitor what and for how long users are accessing other software on the Google-owned operating system.

Both apps have a controversial history. In January, Facebook shut down a market research app ostensibly offered as a virtual private network (VPN) provider. It was marketed to teens and used a special software certificate Apple gives out to businesses, designed mainly to allow the distribution of internal apps to employees, but not the public.

Facebook, however, was using it to...

Netflix reopens iconic New York theater to showcase its most prestigious films

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 11:48 AM PST

Netflix has signed a lease to keep New York City's iconic Paris Theater open, and will use the space to play some of its most prestigious films, the company announced today. The Netflix have plans to get into major theatrical distribution, but will instead use this to showcase their own films. The move comes at a time when AMC Theaters and Regal have also refused to stream Netflix originals because of discrepancies over exclusive theatrical windows.

The theater shuttered in August, and Netflix reopened it for a limited time to screen Noah Baumbach's new movie, Marriage Story. Now, "the company plans to use the theater for special events, screenings, and theatrical releases of its films," according to a press release. Terms of the lease —...

Pirate Radio: a special series from The Verge

Posted: 25 Nov 2019 11:20 AM PST