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- Apple, Google, and others asked to avoid travel and cancel big events
- Apple and Google are cracking down on coronavirus apps to combat misinformation
- Twitter now bans dehumanizing remarks based on age, disability, and disease
- Facebook will take down Trump campaign posts that look like official census 2020 ads
- Sonos is getting rid of the controversial Recycle Mode that needlessly bricked its older devices
- Tech companies are getting more aggressive to fight COVID-19 hoaxes
- Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are asking Seattle-based staff to work from home because of coronavirus
- Google will lose its John Legend Google Assistant voice on March 23rd
- YouTube children’s content faces a new threat from the KIDS Act
- The Invisible Man haunts us the way abusers always have
| Apple, Google, and others asked to avoid travel and cancel big events Posted: 05 Mar 2020 05:32 PM PST  Companies based in Santa Clara County, California — which includes Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and San Jose — should avoid travel and postpone or cancel mass gatherings, the county recommended on Thursday. The recommendations come after six new cases of the novel coronavirus have been identified, bringing the total number of people confirmed to have the disease to 20. The county's guidance affects several major Silicon Valley employers. Apple, for instance, is headquartered in Cupertino; Google in Mountain View; Tesla, in Palo Alto; Netflix, in Los Gatos; LinkedIn, in Sunnyvale; Adobe, in San Jose; and Intel and Nvidia, in Santa Clara. Other companies with offices in the area might be affected as well, such as Amazon, Facebook,... |
| Apple and Google are cracking down on coronavirus apps to combat misinformation Posted: 05 Mar 2020 04:36 PM PST  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Both Apple and Google have begun cracking down on apps related to the coronavirus, according to a new report from CNBC. App developers who spoke with the news organization say Apple is rejecting any and all coronavirus-related mobile software not from recognized health organizations or the government. CNBC also reports that Google is not returning any results for coronavirus-related searches on the Play Store, although it's unclear at this time if Google is restricting the approval of new apps, too. Apple appears to be catching new coronavirus-related apps in its manual review process, with one developer telling CNBC they received a message from the iPhone maker reading, "Apps with information about current medical information need to... |
| Twitter now bans dehumanizing remarks based on age, disability, and disease Posted: 05 Mar 2020 03:01 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has updated its hate speech policies to cover tweets that make dehumanizing remarks, which are remarks that treat "others as less than human," on the basis of age, disability, or disease. The changes follow updates to the company's polices made last July that said Twitter would remove tweets that dehumanize religious groups. Prior to that, Twitter issued a broad ban in 2018 on dehumanizing speech to compliment its existing hate speech policies that cover protected classes like race and gender. It has since been updating these dehumanization policies to take into account specific cases its original ruleset failed to address, based on user feedback. Now, Twitter says tweets like the ones in the image below will be removed when... |
| Facebook will take down Trump campaign posts that look like official census 2020 ads Posted: 05 Mar 2020 01:37 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will remove some of President Donald Trump's reelection campaign ads from its platform, CNN reports. "There are policies in place to prevent confusion around the official US Census and this is an example of those being enforced," a Facebook spokesperson said in an email to The Verge. As first reported by journalist Judd Legum in his Popular Info newsletter, Trump's campaign was running ads that asked people to respond to an "official district census" that linked to his campaign website. "This survey is ESSENTIAL to our team's 2020 campaign strategy. We need Patriotic Americans like YOU to respond to this census, so we can develop a winning strategy for YOUR STATE," one of the ads reads. The link in the ad describes itself as an... |
| Sonos is getting rid of the controversial Recycle Mode that needlessly bricked its older devices Posted: 05 Mar 2020 01:30 PM PST  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Sonos is doing away with Recycle Mode, a controversial part of the company's trade-up program that rendered old devices inoperable in exchange for a 30 percent discount on a newer Sonos product. The trade-up program still exists, and customers who own eligible legacy products can get the same discount, but they're no longer required to permanently brick devices that might still work just fine. With the change, Sonos is now giving customers full control over what happens with the older gadgets they're "trading" up from. They can choose to keep it, give it to someone, recycle it at a local e-waste facility, or send it to Sonos and let the company handle the responsible recycling part. Sonos quietly removed Recycle Mode from its app last... |
| Tech companies are getting more aggressive to fight COVID-19 hoaxes Posted: 05 Mar 2020 01:23 PM PST  A sign directing patients towards a Coronavirus pod at University College Hospital on March 4, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. | Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images You hate to accuse our big tech platforms of being responsible during a crisis. For one thing, they benefit from low expectations, having historically ignored much of the misinformation that they unwittingly promoted with their recommendation algorithms. And for another, the American part of the COVID-19 crisis is likely just beginning: each day brings with it a fresh raft of headlines about new diagnoses, new conference cancelations, new restrictions on employee travel, and so on. With the novel coronavirus, as with so much else lately, it appears that things really are going to get worse before they get better. Still, as I look at the past few days of news, I can't help but notice hopeful signs. The big tech companies and social... |
| Posted: 05 Mar 2020 12:43 PM PST  Numerous tech companies have asked their Seattle-based employees to work from home to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. Both Amazon and Facebook have shut down offices in the area after confirming that their Seattle-based employees have indeed contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. As the outbreak continues to spread in the US, including in California and New York, the situation has worsened in Washington where the virus was first discovered Stateside. The state now has at least 70 confirmed cases and 10 deaths. Here are the work-from-home policies for some Seattle tech company offices that The Verge is aware of:
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| Google will lose its John Legend Google Assistant voice on March 23rd Posted: 05 Mar 2020 12:36 PM PST  If you've gotten used to ordering around John Legend (or his voice, at least) as your Google Assistant, be prepared for a loss: Google has announced that it will discontinue the celebrity cameo voice on March 23rd. Google added the singer's voice to its roster of available Google Assistant voices at Google I/O last April. It previously noted that the feature would run for limited time, but the company never specified how long it would last. (Disclaimer: John Legend is a Vox Media board member.) John Legend's cameo came with its own set of personality-specific Easter eggs. You'll get him crooning if you ask him to sing you "Happy Birthday" or if you ask about Chrissy Teigen, his equally famous wife. For now, if you really want a celebrity... |
| YouTube children’s content faces a new threat from the KIDS Act Posted: 05 Mar 2020 12:36 PM PST  Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images From toy unboxings to gaming videos, kids spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos. But if two Democratic senators get their way, YouTube and other companies could be forced to completely overhaul their children's content ecosystems. The Kids Internet Design and Safety (KIDS) Act was introduced by Sens. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Thursday; if approved, the bill would force companies like YouTube and TikTok to completely change how they treat children's content on their platforms. Everything from ads, app design, and some kinds of harmful content would see new limitations when a child under the age of 16 uses the platform. "Today, kids' faces are increasingly covered in the glow of their screens, and it's time... |
| The Invisible Man haunts us the way abusers always have Posted: 05 Mar 2020 12:17 PM PST  Fictional stories explain how technology and culture help bad men hide their crimes |
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