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- Twitter’s audio tweets revealed an accessibility miss, and now the company wants to fix it
- Tesla employees are holding a Juneteenth rally at the company’s California factory
- Here are the 5 biggest announcements from the EA Play Live 2020 press conference
- The first Star Wars: Squadrons gameplay footage shows off the starfighter action
- EA is bringing Apex Legends to Switch and launching Steam versions of popular titles
- Facebook commits $200 million to support black-owned businesses
- Canoo founder leaves the EV startup ahead of next year’s launch
- Apple doubles down on controversial decision to reject email app Hey
- TikTok reveals some of the secrets, and blind spots, of its recommendation algorithm
- Verily rolls out Healthy at Work testing program for companies seeking to reopen safely
| Twitter’s audio tweets revealed an accessibility miss, and now the company wants to fix it Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:28 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter doesn't have a team dedicated to accessibility, instead relying on employees who volunteer their time above and beyond their usual duties, and the company may have already realized that's a mistake — after taking flak for the lack of captions in Twitter's brand-new audio tweet feature, the company tells The Verge that it's exploring how to build a "more dedicated group" to focus on accessibility problems. The lack of a dedicated team was revealed by Twitter software engineer Andrew Hayward, following complaints from accessibility advocates. He later clarified that the group wasn't unpaid, but were regular Twitter employees who dedicated some of their time to accessibility issues.
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| Tesla employees are holding a Juneteenth rally at the company’s California factory Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:17 PM PDT  Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge A small group of Tesla employees and community organizers are holding a rally on Friday in the parking lot of the company's Fremont, California car factory on June 19th, or Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The people behind the protest want Tesla employees and people from the community to "Stand with Tesla Workers for Black Lives," according to a Facebook event. The rally comes as people around the nation continue to take to the streets to protest police brutality and racism, and as a number of tech giants like Uber and Twitter have announced that they're making Juneteenth a paid company holiday. "This was brought on by a group of people who are not only calling for an end to police... |
| Here are the 5 biggest announcements from the EA Play Live 2020 press conference Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:08 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This year, Electronic Arts, like many of the giant video game publishers, switched from what would normally have been a massive E3 press conference in Los Angeles to a virtual-only event called EA Play Live. The event kicked off at 7PM ET on Thursday and included a slew of big announcements from the company's various gaming properties, including the Respawn-made battle royale Apex Legends and Star Wars. The series of news announcements also illustrated EA's commitment to supporting Steam versions of its popular PC titles and cross-play for allowing various console platforms and Windows ones to play together. We've rounded up all the biggest news from the show here. Apex Legends is coming to Nintendo... |
| The first Star Wars: Squadrons gameplay footage shows off the starfighter action Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:46 PM PDT  After a teaser trailer earlier this week, EA has finally shown off some actual gameplay footage for Star Wars: Squadrons, its new starfighter dogfighting game. As promised, the new title is a first-person space shooter focused around five-on-five team battles, as players group up into their own squadron (made up, of course, of classic Star Wars ships). The gameplay appears to be drawing on past games, like the 90s X-Wing and TIE Fighter games, complete with diverting power between ship systems, managing shields, and that first-person view. There are plans for eight pilot-able ships, with a fighter, interceptor, support, and bomber class ship for each faction (specifically, the X-Wing, A-Wing, Y-Wing, U-Wing, TIE Fighter, TIE Interceptor,... |
| EA is bringing Apex Legends to Switch and launching Steam versions of popular titles Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:40 PM PDT  Image: Respawn EA announced today that popular battle royale shooter Apex Legends will be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam this fall. The game has only been available on PC via Origin, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 since it launched in February 2019. Apex Legends developer Respawn said the game would be getting crossplay this fall as well. Apex Legends isn't the only EA game coming to Steam — the studio announced that five more EA games, including Titanfall 2, The Sims 4, Dead Space 3, and A Way Out are all playable "right this second." Need for Speed: Most Wanted is also now on Steam, according to Kotaku.au. EA first announced that games would be returning to Steam in October, with the first being Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and has since... |
| Facebook commits $200 million to support black-owned businesses Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:14 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will spend $200 million to support black-owned businesses and organizations in the US, COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post. It is one of several Facebook initiatives announced today to support black communities. The company also will add a section to the Facebook app that features stories from black people, fundraisers for causes fighting racial injustice, and educational resources, Sandberg said. CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already said on May 31st that Facebook would commit $10 million to "groups working on racial justice," though noted that the company was working with advisors and employees to figure out how to best distribute the money. The platform has come under scrutiny for enabling discrimination in the past. For... |
| Canoo founder leaves the EV startup ahead of next year’s launch Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:18 PM PDT  Image: Canoo The founder and first CEO of EV startup Canoo is leaving, the company has confirmed to The Verge. Stefan Krause, the former chief financial officer at both BMW and Deutsche Bank, is stepping down as chairman after shifting away from the CEO role last year. Krause is leaving ahead of the anticipated launch of his EV startup's first vehicle, which is slated to happen in 2021. "Stefan has decided to formally leave his official duties with Canoo in order to pursue other opportunities," the company said in a statement to The Verge. "We are grateful to Stefan for the invaluable role he played in shaping our young company. Though he'll always be around, we wish him best of luck in his new endeavors." Krause declined to comment. |
| Apple doubles down on controversial decision to reject email app Hey Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:50 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple is standing behind its decision to reject future updates for the iOS app of new email service Hey. In a letter sent to Hey creator Basecamp and obtained by The Verge, Apple outlines the App Store rules it says the Hey app breaks and advises the company to adhere to developer guidelines if Basecamp wishes to continue updating the software on iOS or release it for the Mac. It also says it declined to publish the Mac version of the app in its App Store, echoing Apple's earlier admission that it should never have approved an iOS version of the Hey app in the first place. The letter is signed by company's App Review Board, but Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller made similar comments in an interview with TechCrunch published today.... |
| TikTok reveals some of the secrets, and blind spots, of its recommendation algorithm Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:43 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Like many social media platforms and apps, TikTok feeds are built using a recommendation algorithm that uses a number of tools and factors to personalize it for each person. Now, TikTok has published a new blog post explaining how its recommendation feed works, and it includes tips for personalizing the feed to avoid being served random videos you might not be interested in. TikTok's recommendation algorithm is built around input factors in a way somewhat similar to the way YouTube measures and monitors engagement. The way people interact with the app affects the recommendations served, including posting a comment or following an account. If someone only follows cute animal accounts, and solely double taps to like or comments on videos... |
| Verily rolls out Healthy at Work testing program for companies seeking to reopen safely Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:34 PM PDT  Verily Life Sciences has announced an app-based health screening service for businesses and schools trying to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. The product, called Healthy at Work, will provide COVID-19 diagnostic testing for employees. It will also make recommendations to employers about how often employees should be retested. Those recommendations will be based on local health data, as well as test results. The program will conduct daily symptom screening through an app to either route people to be tested for the virus or clear them to return to work, according to a Verily spokesperson. It's up to each participating company to decide whether to test its workforce all at once or start with small groups of employees. The symptom... |
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