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- Apple isn’t backing down from its hybrid work model, according to internal note
- Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation
- Roku launches its new originals with a Demi Lovato talk show
- WhatsApp’s Spanish language content moderators push for equal pay in internal letter
- Sen. Warren calls for ‘meticulous’ review of Amazon’s MGM acquisition
- United’s latest jets will offer Bluetooth for in-flight entertainment
- A Twitter bug temporarily removed the option to switch to the chronological feed on the web
- Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture
- Elon Musk counts on 500,000 Starlink users within the next year
- Federal agencies use facial recognition from private companies, but almost nobody is keeping track
| Apple isn’t backing down from its hybrid work model, according to internal note Posted: 29 Jun 2021 06:44 PM PDT  Apple isn't backing down from its hybrid work model that will require most employees to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Fully remote positions will be extremely limited. "We believe that in-person collaboration is essential to our culture and our future," said Deirdre O'Brien, senior vice president of retail and people, in a video recording viewed by The Verge. "If we take a moment to reflect on our unbelievable product launches this past year, the products and the launch execution were built upon the base of years of work that we did when we were all together in-person." The news comes nearly a month after Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out an email telling employees the company was rolling out a new work... |
| Zoom acquires an AI company building real-time translation Posted: 29 Jun 2021 05:40 PM PDT  Zoom has announced that it's acquiring a company known as Kites (short for Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions), which has worked on creating real-time translation and transcription software. Zoom says the acquisition is a move to help it make communicating with people who speak different languages easier, and that it's looking to add translation capabilities to its video conferencing app. According to its site, Kites began at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and its technology was originally developed to act as in-classroom translation for students who needed help understanding the English or German their professors were lecturing in. Zoom already has real-time transcriptions, but it's limited to people who are talking in... |
| Roku launches its new originals with a Demi Lovato talk show Posted: 29 Jun 2021 05:25 PM PDT  The first of a dozen-plus Roku Originals to premiere on the Roku Channel will kick off July 30th with The Demi Lovato Show, a series that had originally been slated for a debut on Quibi. The show will now launch as Roku's first "original" to land on the Roku Channel, the platform's free and ad-supported streaming offering. While originally intended for Quibi, the show will be brand new to audiences when it arrives on the Roku Channel this week. Each episode will be 10 minutes long, feature a celebrity guest, and will cover topics as wide-ranging as UFOs, activism, mental health, gender identity, and police reform. In a statement, Lovato said that they have "never been one to shy away from speaking candidly about things." The show had... |
| WhatsApp’s Spanish language content moderators push for equal pay in internal letter Posted: 29 Jun 2021 05:03 PM PDT  WhatsApp's Spanish language content moderators and customer service representatives are pushing the company for equal pay, according to an internal letter obtained by The Verge. They say they've been excluded from a $2 per hour premium paid to other bilingual contractors. The workers are employed by Accenture, a third-party contracting firm, in Austin, Texas. "For several years now, Accenture, Facebook, and Whatsapp have denied equal treatment and pay to Spanish language Contingent Workers," employees say in the letter. "It is an insult for companies like Facebook and Accenture to publicly champion diversity, but yet fail to deliver this to its own workers." Accenture classifies much of its workforce as contingent, meaning employees are... |
| Sen. Warren calls for ‘meticulous’ review of Amazon’s MGM acquisition Posted: 29 Jun 2021 04:30 PM PDT  Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling on the Federal Trade Commission for a thorough review of Amazon's bid to acquire MGM, arguing that the deal could harm consumers and may have anticompetitive effects in the streaming space and beyond. In a letter addressed to newly sworn-in FTC chair Lina Khan and shared exclusively with The Verge, Warren urged the FTC to specifically and closely examine "the possible anticompetitive effects this deal will have on streaming services and entertainment products in addition to the broader impacts that this transaction may have on workers, small businesses, and competition overall as Amazon—which already dominates numerous markets—accelerates its aggressive monopolistic behavior." The FTC is said to be r... |
| United’s latest jets will offer Bluetooth for in-flight entertainment Posted: 29 Jun 2021 03:58 PM PDT  United Airlines is adding a long-awaited feature to the in-flight entertainment seatback screens of its new Boeing 737 Max 8 jets — support for Bluetooth headphones. The company is making the upgrade as part of "United Next", a new plan to expand and modernize its fleet with what it says are larger, fuel-efficient jets and a more comfortable in-flight experience. I haven't flown in the last two years — for reasons that are hopefully obvious — but the thing that grinds most of my past flying experience to a halt is dealing with the bizarre two-pronged audio jacks airplanes use for inflight audio. Having headphones with a 3.5mm audio jack isn't hard, but it doesn't reflect the Bluetooth audio lifestyle, Apple, and plenty of other tech... |
| A Twitter bug temporarily removed the option to switch to the chronological feed on the web Posted: 29 Jun 2021 03:36 PM PDT  Twitter has fixed a bug that left some of us horrified when we opened the site (as is often the case, but for different reasons) — those viewing the social network in a web browser found that they no longer had the option to switch between the algorithmic view and the reverse-chronological one. The algorithmic view, which shows tweets out of order, has been much maligned since it first appeared, and the bug on Tuesday had people worried that Twitter was finally starting to force it on everyone. Twitter's support account says that web users should be able to change their timeline order again, and a few of us at The Verge have confirmed that the button is back on our timelines. Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour called the toggle's... |
| Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture Posted: 29 Jun 2021 02:37 PM PDT  Last week, a pair of YouTube's most popular creators was set to spar in the marketplace of ideas in a debate over the government's simple, common sense advice to wear masks during a global pandemic to stop the persistent spread of COVID-19. The spat grew from a series of videos between right-wing provocateur Steven Crowder and the host of the H3 Podcast, Ethan Klein, calling one another out for their purported bad takes on mask-wearing. In March, Crowder called out Klein for saying that "you shouldn't think about" what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells you and just wear the mask, rather than criticizing the agency and its scientists. Crowder, who is widely known as the face of the "change my mind" meme, has challenged... |
| Elon Musk counts on 500,000 Starlink users within the next year Posted: 29 Jun 2021 02:32 PM PDT  SpaceX's satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, Elon Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference on Tuesday. SpaceX's current goal, Musk said, is to beam broadband internet to most of the planet by August. The internet network, in the midst of an open beta phase, has launched more than 1,700 satellites to low-Earth orbit since 2018 and recently surpassed a "strategically significant" benchmark of 69,420 active users, Musk told MWC. He said Starlink is already running in 12 countries and expanding. "We're I think on our way to having a few hundred thousand users, possibly over 500,000 users within 12 months," he added. Reaching half a million users in the next year... |
| Federal agencies use facial recognition from private companies, but almost nobody is keeping track Posted: 29 Jun 2021 02:13 PM PDT  A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has revealed near-total lack of accountability from federal agencies using facial recognition built by private companies, like Clearview AI. Of the 14 federal agencies that said they used privately built facial recognition for criminal investigations, only Immigration and Customs Enforcement was in the process of implementing a list of approved facial recognition vendors and a log sheet for the technology's use. The rest of the agencies, including Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, had no process in place to track the use of private facial recognition. This GAO report greatly expands the public's... |
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