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- Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own
- Here’s the never-before-seen Simpsons video game dreamt up for Sega Dreamcast
- Queen Elizabeth will deliver her Christmas Day message via Alexa this year, if you ask
- Apple just temporarily closed all 53 stores in California and over a dozen in London
- Twitter is publicly declaring Joe Biden the winner of the US election — on Trump’s own tweets
- Nothing makes me worry more about the SolarWinds hack than Trump now saying it’s ‘under control’
- Apple puts another supplier on probation after exploited workers smashed up a building
- YouTube had the mostly unremarkable year it was looking for
- The best deals of the week, holiday edition
- Pokémon Go creators say COVID is ‘existential to our game’
| Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own Posted: 19 Dec 2020 05:03 PM PST  Is your internet service provider charging you every month for the cable modem or router that you purchased with your own money? Or, perhaps, have you never bothered to buy those items because you couldn't escape the fee? That fee will be illegal starting Sunday, December 20th, and you should tell your ISP that you'll no longer tolerate it, threaten to sue, and/or take advantage of any binding arbitration clause it may have with you. Last year, Congress passed a law that should have fixed this ridiculous loophole as of June 20th, 2020 — and though the FCC managed to extend the deadline six months by spinning up some bullshit about how cable companies didn't have the resources to stop charging you money, the law should take full effect... |
| Here’s the never-before-seen Simpsons video game dreamt up for Sega Dreamcast Posted: 19 Dec 2020 04:04 PM PST  As a lowly Wired Magazine intern, one of my first assignments was reviewing 2007's The Simpsons Game: a groundbreaking self-referential parody of the entire gaming industry that, sadly, suffered from as nearly as many tropes as it lampooned. But it turns out Fox had been interested in a three-dimensional Simpsons game long before that — one that could have appeared on the Sega Dreamcast if things had worked out. Today, the DreamcasticChannel on YouTube (via Kotaku) is showcasing an unreleased tech demo from the year 2000 for a title tentatively called "The Simpsons: Bug Squad!" It's from the long-defunct Red Lemon Studios, and it's remarkable how much the game's cel-shaded graphics look like the show. Apparently, a Dreamcast-Talk forum... |
| Queen Elizabeth will deliver her Christmas Day message via Alexa this year, if you ask Posted: 19 Dec 2020 03:21 PM PST  "Alexa, play the Queen's Christmas Day message" will soon be a thing — even if you don't live in the UK. Starting December 25th at 3PM GMT (or 10AM ET, 7AM PT), that phrase will deliver the Queen's traditional Christmas Day broadcast, according to The Guardian. If you're curious what the Queen's message might contain, you can check out transcripts of all her previous Christmas Broadcasts (going back to 1952!) at The Royal Household's website. No doubt this one will spend some time on the COVID-19 pandemic, whose latest variant is currently forcing London to impose its harshest lockdown yet, but perhaps it'll be a bit of an escape from the harsh reality, too. Amazon seems to think it might be: "After a challenging year, millions of... |
| Apple just temporarily closed all 53 stores in California and over a dozen in London Posted: 19 Dec 2020 02:43 PM PST  9to5Mac's Michael Steeber noticed a interesting coincidence today: the company has temporarily closed every single retail store in California, many more across the US, both stores in Mexico, both stores in Brazil, and is about to close 16 additional stores across the UK. As Steeber points out, that's nearly 100 stores if we include ones it closed in Germany and the Netherlands last week, leaving nearly a fifth of the company's locations now closed worldwide. I checked Apple's complete list of stores to confirm, and sure enough: every California store, all four in Tennessee, all three in Utah, all four in Minnesota, two in Oklahoma, and the stores in Portland, Oregon; Anchorage, Alaska; Omaha, Nebraska; and Albuquerque, New Mexico are all... |
| Twitter is publicly declaring Joe Biden the winner of the US election — on Trump’s own tweets Posted: 19 Dec 2020 12:54 PM PST  If you read my previous post, you might have noticed a brand-new Twitter label on Trump's latest wildly misleading tweet: "Election officials have certified Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. Presidential election." Yes, Twitter is now calling the election for Joe Biden on Trump's own tweets. Twitter tells us it's simply an update to its existing label, designed to "reflect the latest information." But there's a staggering difference between this label and Twitter's previous one, which simply said "Multiple sources called this election differently." That left room for doubt. Now that the Electoral College has voted, Twitter not only accepting the result, but using it to visibly challenge the president's ongoing lie that he won the... |
| Nothing makes me worry more about the SolarWinds hack than Trump now saying it’s ‘under control’ Posted: 19 Dec 2020 12:10 PM PST  "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It's going to be just fine." — President Donald Trump on COVID-19, January 22nd, 2020. "The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA." — Trump on COVID-19, February 24th. "It's incredible. But it's something that we have tremendous control over." — Trump on COVID-19, March 15th. Here's Trump today, on the massive SolarWinds hack that targeted federal agencies and could have exposed 425 of the companies on the Fortune 500: "I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control." You don't say. Here are a few perspectives on the SolarWinds hack from entities that do not currently have negative credibility: |
| Apple puts another supplier on probation after exploited workers smashed up a building Posted: 19 Dec 2020 11:27 AM PST  For the second time in two months, Apple is putting one of the companies it hires to build the iPhone on notice for violating labor laws. Reuters, Bloomberg and others are reporting that Apple has put Taiwanese manufacturing giant Wistron on "probation" — meaning it won't receive any new business from Apple until it sorts things out — after the supplier was found exploiting workers at a plant in India. The reason we're hearing about this at all is rather incredible: on December 12th, some 2,000 workers decided to protest unpaid wages by rioting at one of Wistron's offices, smashing up the lobby and overturning vehicles. There's video: |
| YouTube had the mostly unremarkable year it was looking for Posted: 19 Dec 2020 09:00 AM PST  YouTube started the last few years off with nothing short of catastrophic headlines about some of its creators. 2017 saw Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg receive global criticism for a video in which he displayed anti-Semitic imagery; 2018 found Logan Paul uploading footage of a dead body to YouTube; 2019 ushered in loot crate controversies and dangerous stunts by top personalities like Jake Paul who took part in the Bird Box challenge by driving while blindfolded, leading to fundamental policy changes at the company. Those events were only within the first few weeks of each year, too. 2020 was much quieter. The year has gone by without a cascade of egregious misdeeds and public relations disasters. That's not to suggest YouTube had a perfect... |
| The best deals of the week, holiday edition Posted: 19 Dec 2020 08:00 AM PST  The holidays can be overwhelming — even during years like this one when most of us aren't actually traveling to visit family and friends. If buying gifts is still looming on your to-do list, you certainly aren't alone. It's tough to find the right kind of gift for everyone, especially people who have an affinity for tech. That's where we come in. Below, there are a few great deals you can take advantage of now, and better, they'll get where they need to be by December 25th. If you're mailing packages yourself, we've pulled together all of the crucial shipping dates for USPS, UPS, and FedEx right here. Deals on noise-canceling headphonesSony's WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds with noise cancellation slipped $10 below its best-ever price... |
| Pokémon Go creators say COVID is ‘existential to our game’ Posted: 19 Dec 2020 08:00 AM PST |
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