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- Microsoft will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars
- Facebook’s newest proof-of-concept VR headset looks like a pair of sunglasses
- Alphabet-owned Verily suspended employee bonuses to fund diversity initiatives
- How to create your own backyard movie theater
- NASA delays launch of its next Mars rover as time runs out for takeoff
- Cards Against Humanity workers are unionizing
- Apple is reportedly canceling some Arcade contracts to focus on ‘engagement’
- Netgear now has a slightly less expensive Wi-Fi 6 Orbi mesh router
- ESPN Plus increases to $5.99 in August, making it the same price as Hulu
- Facebook is removing a network of accounts linked to the violent ‘boogaloo’ movement
| Microsoft will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars Posted: 30 Jun 2020 05:30 PM PDT  If you play Forza Horizon or Forza Motorsport, you have some freedom to personalize cars in the game, even adding your own custom designs. One popular example: players have used the feature to recreate the General Lee, the 1969 Dodge Charger from The Dukes of Hazzard, in almost every single Forza game since at least 2007. But the General Lee famously includes the controversial confederate flag on its back — and Microsoft has just announced it will ban players who use that symbol (among others) in the game. In a statement posted on Twitter last Friday, Microsoft updated its enforcement guidelines to have a zero-tolerance policy for any player using the confederate flag or other symbols that represent "notorious iconography," including... |
| Facebook’s newest proof-of-concept VR headset looks like a pair of sunglasses Posted: 30 Jun 2020 03:53 PM PDT  Image: Facebook Facebook has shown off a new proof-of-concept virtual reality headset, and it has a completely different design than most other VR devices on the market today. Instead of a bulky contraption that covers up the top half of your face and has to be strapped to your head, this proof-of-concept headset looks kind of like a pair of large sunglasses that can sit comfortably on your ears. Yet Facebook is billing this new device as not a pair of augmented reality glasses, as common conceptions of AR devices go, but a legitimate VR product. They're very thin, with a display thickness of less than 9mm, and Facebook claims they have a field of view that's "comparable to today's consumer VR products." Here's a top-down view: |
| Alphabet-owned Verily suspended employee bonuses to fund diversity initiatives Posted: 30 Jun 2020 03:41 PM PDT  Verily Life Sciences, the Alphabet-owned healthcare company, is suspending employee spot bonuses, as reported by Business Insider. The money will be funneled instead to fund diversity and inclusion initiatives. The move frustrated workers, many of whom have been working grueling hours on the company's COVID-19 testing projects. In a letter to management obtained by Business Insider, employees said the decision implied these initiatives are not a priority. They wrote: "The use of spot bonuses to subsidize social justice programs such as Healthy@Work for HBCUs [Historically Black colleges and universities], clinical trial recruitment of underrepresented populations, and an internal Product Inclusion group implies that these efforts are... |
| How to create your own backyard movie theater Posted: 30 Jun 2020 03:16 PM PDT |
| NASA delays launch of its next Mars rover as time runs out for takeoff Posted: 30 Jun 2020 02:43 PM PDT  NASA is pushing back the launch of it next Mars rover, called Perseverance, by a week, due to a problem with the rocket that's supposed to send the spacecraft to the Red Planet. The rover is now slated to launch no earlier than July 30th out of Cape Canaveral, Florida. That puts the launch of Perseverance perilously close to the end of its limited launch window, which originally spanned from July 17th to August 11th. NASA and other space agencies only have a small window of time every two years to send spacecraft to Mars, when the Red Planet comes closest to Earth on its orbit around the Sun. NASA has already pushed back the launch a few times before, to July 20th and then to July 22nd, due to issues with the ground equipment that... |
| Cards Against Humanity workers are unionizing Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:50 PM PDT  Photo by Anne Farrar/The Washington Post via Getty Images Employees at Cards Against Humanity (CAH) are unionizing. In a statement posted today on Twitter, workers said that they have sent a letter to CAH's owners to voluntarily recognize their union under CMRJB Workers United. "The time has come for us to follow in the footsteps of our comrades at The Onion, Gawker, and Kickstarter," a statement from CAH Workers United reads. Cards Against Humanity employees have come forward over the past few weeks to talk about a long office culture of racist and sexist behavior, as well as sexual assault allegations against co-founder Max Temkin. The Verge's sister site Polygon spoke with dozens of current and former employees; many shared stories of how Black writers' concerns and ideas were often ignored,... |
| Apple is reportedly canceling some Arcade contracts to focus on ‘engagement’ Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:48 PM PDT  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Earlier this year, Apple reportedly canceled several contracts for games that were set to launch on Arcade, the company's game subscription service known for its library of high-quality titles that don't have ads or in-app purchases. It allegedly canceled each of them for the same reason: Apple wants new games that will keep players coming back to the service. A report from Bloomberg notes that an Arcade executive told some developers who were on contract that Apple is seeking out games that have a high level of "engagement," as it was put by one of the publication's sources. For developers wondering where Apple's bar for engagement currently lies, the report mentions that an Apple Arcade representative cited Grindstone, Capybara Games'... |
| Netgear now has a slightly less expensive Wi-Fi 6 Orbi mesh router Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:20 PM PDT  Netgear Orbi RBK752. | Image: Netgear Netgear is launching a second model of its Orbi mesh router with support for Wi-Fi 6, following up on a high-end model released last fall. This new version, eloquently named the RBK752, is more of a midrange model, offering slightly decreased performance at a slightly decreased price. This is still an Orbi router, though, so it's still expensive: $450 for a router and satellite. The high-end model, the RBK852, offers the same bundle for $700. While cheaper, this new model is still a fairly capable mesh system. The RBK752 is a tri-band system, meaning it has a radio dedicated to serving as a wireless link between the units, and it offers four user-facing streams of connectivity with a theoretical maximum speed of 4.2Gbps. That's down from... |
| ESPN Plus increases to $5.99 in August, making it the same price as Hulu Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:03 PM PDT  ESPN Plus is getting a $1 price hike in August to $5.99 a month, making the baseline price for Disney's sports streaming app the same as Hulu's basic tier. The price hike is only being applied to ESPN Plus' monthly fee, according to internal documents viewed by The Verge. The annual price of $49.99 will remain untouched. Existing monthly subscribers can keep the $4.99 subscription fee for a period of one year before being switched to the $5.99 price point, documents show. Disney declined to comment to The Verge. ESPN Plus launched in April 2018, carrying an assortment of college games and various sports leagues, albeit none of the big ones like NFL or NBA games. ESPN Plus has also carried UFC title matches, which have performed well... |
| Facebook is removing a network of accounts linked to the violent ‘boogaloo’ movement Posted: 30 Jun 2020 01:00 PM PDT  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has removed a network of anti-government accounts associated with the fringe "boogaloo" movement after designating the group as a dangerous organization, the company said. The network, which represents a subset of the broader movement, actively planned violence, Facebook said, though it declined to share additional details, saying it did not want to interfere with ongoing law enforcement investigations. On Tuesday afternoon, the company removed:
In addition, Facebook removed more than 400 other groups and 100 other pages that were "hosting similar content as the violent network but were maintained by accounts outside of it." As of today, the... |
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