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- These engineers are trying to rescue a ‘Bookbot’ from the Google graveyard
- DoorDash drivers use their forced arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration
- Apple’s free learn-to-code Swift Playgrounds sandbox arrives on Mac
- Snapchat is testing a big new redesign
- Jeff Bezos bought the most expensive property in LA with an eighth of a percent of his net worth
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks games can be political, but gaming companies should stay out of politics
- Mark Zuckerberg’s privilege to be forgotten
- Space startup’s founders linked to shady dating website ring
- The FTC is cracking down on influencer marketing on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
- .com prices could rise for the first time in eight years
| These engineers are trying to rescue a ‘Bookbot’ from the Google graveyard Posted: 12 Feb 2020 06:28 PM PST  The Bookbot wasn't quite as flashy as other autonomous vehicles in the Google portfolio, but it was popular with patrons of Google's neighborhood library, and its librarians. No one seems to know why the little cube-like, wheeled delivery robot saw its pilot end in June after just four months. So a trio of former Google engineers apparently started a new company called Cartken to revive Bookbot from the Google graveyard, TechCrunch reports. Part of Google's Area 120— the company's internal incubator for the "20 percent" projects employees work on outside of their main jobs — the Bookbot would pick up users' library books at their homes and return them to the Mountain View Library for check-in. Tracy Gray, Mountain View's Library... |
| DoorDash drivers use their forced arbitration clause to force DoorDash into arbitration Posted: 12 Feb 2020 06:12 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge DoorDash contractors have turned a forced arbitration clause in their contract against their employer, as a federal judge has ordered DoorDash to arbitrate 5,010 labor disputes, potentially costing the company millions in arbitration fees (via Quartz). And in a rich bit of irony, DoorDash essentially brought this situation onto itself. The DoorDash workers originally sought arbitration because they felt DoorDash violated federal and California labor law and wanted to settle the dispute. DoorDash argued it was under no obligation to pay the fees needed to arbitrate those thousands of disputes. But DoorDash also originally hoped to dismiss a pending class-action case about the same dispute by arguing that the workers had a duty to... |
| Apple’s free learn-to-code Swift Playgrounds sandbox arrives on Mac Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:29 PM PST  Nearly four years after it launched as an iPad-exclusive in 2016, Apple's Swift Playgrounds app is now available for Mac as part of Apple's Catalyst app initiative, designed to help bridge the software gap between its macOS and iOS platforms (via 9to5Mac). The free app cleverly disguised as a video game teaches kids how to use Apple's Swift programming language, and to maybe build apps of their own. Now that it's on Mac, it might be easier for kids to publish those Swift apps, too; they can now use those skills on the same laptop they'd need for the company's Xcode software. Xcode isn't available on Apple's tablets. Apple's product page also says your code will seamlessly move from iPad to Mac as you write it, and the new app comes... |
| Snapchat is testing a big new redesign Posted: 12 Feb 2020 05:02 PM PST  Snap is working on two significant tests that could reshape its flagship app in a critical year. Tipsters have provided me with screenshots of two ongoing tests that have rolled out to a small percentage of Snapchat's user base. One is a redesign of the app for Android and iOS that provides a new home for the Snap Map and the company's original video programming. The other is a test of breaking news headlines inside the app that injects timely news briefs into Snapchat to complement the existing magazine-style stories on the Discover page. Let's look at them in turn. The redesign takes an app that has long been limited to three screens and splits them into five. Snapchat currently opens to the camera, with a space for chats to the left... |
| Jeff Bezos bought the most expensive property in LA with an eighth of a percent of his net worth Posted: 12 Feb 2020 02:53 PM PST  Photo by PAWAN SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images According to The Wall Street Journal, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has reportedly just bought the most expensive property in Los Angeles from David Geffen, another unimaginably wealthy man, for $165 million. (It's the Warner Estate, which spreads out over nine acres in Beverly Hills.) That's a wild amount of money for anything — I mean, aside from a 747? — but especially for a place you might presumably live in. (Bezos spent around $80 million on a few New York apartments earlier this year, so it's not clear where his five-foot, seven-inch frame will primarily reside.) For context, $165 million is an eighth of a percent of Bezos' $131.9 billion net worth. The Warner Estate was designed in the 1930s for Jack Warner, who was the former... |
| Posted: 12 Feb 2020 02:44 PM PST  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is one of the biggest names in video games these days, thanks to the seemingly unstoppable success of Fortnite. And with the spotlight on him as the keynote speaker at the annual DICE Summit, (as recapped by The Hollywood Reporter, VentureBeat, and others) Sweeney gave his thoughts on the overall video game industry — including his view that gaming companies as platforms need to "divorce ourselves from politics." As Sweeney elaborated later on Twitter, his argument isn't that games should avoid politics at all, but rather to say that games that tackle politics should do so from a creative perspective, rather than a marketing one. And that game platforms themselves should be "operating as neutral venues for... |
| Mark Zuckerberg’s privilege to be forgotten Posted: 12 Feb 2020 02:38 PM PST  A lengthy piece from Steven Levy in Wired today revealed parts of a 2006 journal from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. You can read the Wired story here, and also our take on the most notable part of it, which is that Zuckerberg once considered something wild called "dark profiles." But what struck me most was the fact that what we saw today in Wired may be the only glimpse we ever get at Zuckerberg's intimate journal record — because he destroyed the rest of it. "The notebooks have now mostly disappeared, destroyed by Zuckerberg himself," Levy reports. "He says he did it for privacy reasons." It's difficult to capture the magnitude of this irony. I'm not saying Facebook's rise to power is a complete secret. Years of reporting, leaks,... |
| Space startup’s founders linked to shady dating website ring Posted: 12 Feb 2020 02:31 PM PST  Image: Firefly Aerospace Two founders and board members of Texas space startup Firefly Aerospace appear to be involved in running a ring of sham dating websites, according to the results of a two-year investigation published by Snopes on Wednesday. The investigation links the two men, Ukrainian businessman Max Polyakov and investor Mark Watt, to a handful of shell companies that appear to own and operate dozens of similar websites with names like "BuddyGays," "MyLustyWish," "WantMatures," "Loveaholics," "SpicyDesires," and "AffairDating." After creating free accounts on a number of these websites, Snopes discovered they were filled with seemingly fake profiles, some of which used stolen photos of models. Snopes reports it was bombarded with messages attempting... |
| The FTC is cracking down on influencer marketing on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok Posted: 12 Feb 2020 02:15 PM PST  Commissioner Rohit Chopra called for tougher penalties on companies that disguise advertising on platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok as authentic reviews in a statement sent out Wednesday. The statement came after the FTC voted 5-0 to approve a Federal Register notice that would seek public comment on whether Endorsement Guides for advertising (which haven't been updated since 2009) need to be reviewed, according to TechCrunch. For years, the Federal Trade Commission has required influencers to disclose sponsored posts, but the guidelines seem to have had little effect. In one recent case mentioned in the letter, a Lord & Taylor campaign paid 50 social media influencers to post about a dress on Instagram, but didn't require... |
| .com prices could rise for the first time in eight years Posted: 12 Feb 2020 01:52 PM PST  Photo credit should read Andrew Cowie/AFP/GettyImages Prices for .com domain names could go up for the first time in eight years, with the group responsible for overseeing top-level internet domains, ICANN, close to granting final approval for a series of price hikes. The price of .com registration has been frozen at $7.85 since 2012. Consumers didn't necessarily see that price — you could have been charged more or less by a registrar — but that was the price domain registrars ended up paying per registration. Under a proposed agreement, the price could rise to nearly $13.50 per domain over the next 10 years. The agreement allows Verisign, which has a contract to oversee .com domains, to raise the... |
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