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- Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s letter addressing the harassment allegations
- Workers at a repair facility used by Apple compare conditions to sweatshops
- Live Text is no longer an M1-exclusive in Apple’s newest macOS Monterey beta
- Blizzard is removing unspecified inappropriate references from World of Warcraft
- Blizzard is encouraging its own employees to attend Wednesday’s walkout with paid time off
- TikTok’s live video push continues with new features for creators and viewers
- The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter
- eBay cyberstalking conspirator sentenced to 18 months in prison
- Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar
- Microsoft reports weaker Surface and Windows revenue amid global chip shortage
| Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s letter addressing the harassment allegations Posted: 27 Jul 2021 06:19 PM PDT  The evening before a proposed employee walkout at Activision Blizzard, one that at least part of the company is now actively encouraging by providing paid time off, company CEO Bobby Kotick has issued a letter to all employees — and investors, and the public — who are watching the company struggle with allegations of sexual harassment and workplace discrimination. At last count, nearly one-third of the company's employees signed an open letter condemning Activision Blizzard's initial response to those allegations, and Kotick's letter addresses that head-on: "Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf," he writes. Kotick says a law firm, WilmerHale, will immediately review... |
| Workers at a repair facility used by Apple compare conditions to sweatshops Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:56 PM PDT  Workers at a Houston, Texas facility that processes repairs for Apple, Dell, and Lenovo reportedly say they are working in "sweatshop" conditions, according to a story from Insider. Workers' toilets are reportedly unsanitary and insufficient, they say they lack air conditioning, and they claim their pay is low at CSAT Solutions, a company that acts as a repair partner for tech companies like Apple. In the report, which is worth reading in its entirety, employees also reportedly say there aren't enough bathrooms or parking spots for the number of workers, and that they're not allowed to use their phones while working, even in the case of family or personal emergencies. One employee told Insider that she got off work to discover that her... |
| Live Text is no longer an M1-exclusive in Apple’s newest macOS Monterey beta Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:24 PM PDT  Apple is expanding which devices can use one of its previously M1-chip exclusive features in the fourth macOS Monterey beta. Live Text, the company's new image scanning and text identifying feature, now runs on "all Mac computers that support macOS Monterey," according to new documentation Apple released. As tech video creator Rene Ritchie notes, that should mean Intel-based Macs. One user claims to have gotten it to work on a Mac Pro from 2008. Live Text digitizes the text found in photos, allowing for smart features like making information like phone numbers and addresses searchable and interactive in Apple Photos and the Camera app. The new feature was one of several macOS Monterey highlights that Apple limited to its newer MacBook... |
| Blizzard is removing unspecified inappropriate references from World of Warcraft Posted: 27 Jul 2021 05:18 PM PDT  The World of Warcraft team has vowed to remove "references that are not appropriate for our world" in "the coming days" following California's major sexual harassment and workplace discrimination lawsuit filed against World of Warcraft developer Activision Blizzard last week. The World of Warcraft team's statement Tuesday didn't specify what "references" they would remove. But it seems possible that NPCs and items named for former World of Warcraft senior creative director Alex Afrasiabi may be taken out of the game — although Afrasiabi seemingly left Blizzard in June 2020, his stamp on the game remains, as Kotaku reported Thursday. Afrasiabi was singled out in the lawsuit for his horrible behavior, which the Department of Fair... |
| Blizzard is encouraging its own employees to attend Wednesday’s walkout with paid time off Posted: 27 Jul 2021 03:50 PM PDT  On Wednesday, Activision Blizzard employees will walk out of work to protest the company's response to a giant sexual harassment and workplace discrimination lawsuit filed by the state of California. Now Blizzard, the studio at the center of many of those specific allegations, is giving the protest its blessing. Blizzard leadership emailed studio employees today to let them know they won't face repercussions for attending — and in fact, that they can have paid time off for the duration. The Verge obtained a copy of the email, which we aren't sharing here to avoid potentially identifying sources. After over 20 percent of Google employees walked out of work in 2018 to protest that company's mishandling of sexual harassment revelations... |
| TikTok’s live video push continues with new features for creators and viewers Posted: 27 Jul 2021 02:10 PM PDT  TikTok has announced a slew of new live video features coming to the popular video app platform for both creators and viewers, including scheduled "events," picture-in-picture support for iOS and Android, and group livestreams with two users. It's part of the company's increased efforts to push users to create and watch live videos. A lot of the new features bring TikTok's live platform up to par with other live video services, adding the ability for creators to schedule a stream in advance (which TikTok calls a "Live Event") that viewers can register and receive notifications for. Creators will also be able to add countdown timers to regular TikTok videos in the form of a sticker to help promote their upcoming streams, too. |
| The iPhone 12’s strong momentum helps Apple to another huge quarter Posted: 27 Jul 2021 01:45 PM PDT  Apple's string of record-breaking earnings reports continued on Tuesday, with the company posting a strong fiscal third quarter that saw $81.43 billion in revenue. That's a year-over-year increase of 36 percent and a new all-time record for the June quarter. It also crushes the $73 billion figure that analysts were expecting. Apple recorded a net quarterly profit of $21.7 billion. This quarter is traditionally one of the slower periods for iPhone sales, as consumer interest begins shifting toward the next lineup of devices that Apple is expected to announce in September. But sales were still impressively up — by nearly 50 percent — compared to this time a year ago, reflecting continued momentum for Apple's first 5G smartphones. Mobile... |
| eBay cyberstalking conspirator sentenced to 18 months in prison Posted: 27 Jul 2021 01:39 PM PDT  Former eBay security manager Philip Cooke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an intense stalking campaign against a pair of eBay critics. A Massachusetts judge issued the sentence nine months after Cooke pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. He's the first of seven former eBay employees to be sentenced after the Justice Department revealed the scheme last year. In comments reported by Bloomberg, US District Judge Allison Burroughs called the case — which saw eBay employees harassing husband-and-wife publishing team Ina and David Steiner with a funeral wreath, live cockroaches, and a bloody-faced pig mask — "just nuts." Cooke, a former police officer, admitted... |
| Google sets all-time records as search and YouTube profits soar Posted: 27 Jul 2021 01:37 PM PDT  Last quarter, Google roared out of the post-pandemic-peak period with a record $17.9 billion in profit, finally joining other tech giants that had been raking it in despite (or perhaps because of) the rise of COVID-19. But Alphabet's Q2 2021 earnings do it one better — the company just set an all-time record revenue of $61.9 billion this quarter, and record profits for the fourth quarter in a row at $18.5 billion. Some of the numbers the company's posting today (PDF) are nearly double those it reported a year ago. Google search appears to be the big driver, shooting up over $14 billion since this time last year to $35.8 billion total (that's nearly $4 billion higher than it did last quarter as well). YouTube advertising revenue grew... |
| Microsoft reports weaker Surface and Windows revenue amid global chip shortage Posted: 27 Jul 2021 01:20 PM PDT  Microsoft posted the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $46.2 billion and a net income of $16.5 billion. Revenue is up 21 percent, and net income has increased by 47 percent. While cloud and Office services have boosted Microsoft's revenues, it's clear that the global chip shortage is taking its toll elsewhere. With the PC market experiencing its first big growth in 10 years earlier this year, there were some signs recently that laptop and PC sales could be starting to slow again amid a global chip shortage. Microsoft's Windows results this quarter reflect that. Windows OEM... |
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