Activist organizations behind a widespread ad boycott of Facebook said they don’t believe CEO Mark Zuckerberg is committing to confronting hateful content after meeting with him and other Facebook executives on Tuesday — with one calling it a “PR exercise” Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg, and CPO Christopher Cox met with organizers from the NAACP, Color
Month: July 2020
We’re excited to announce that Extra Crunch is now available to readers in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. That adds to our existing support in the U.S., Canada, UK, and select European countries. You can sign for Extra Crunch here. Latin America has always caught the eye of big tech. For companies like Facebook, Amazon, and
How VR allowed experiential designer Craig Winslow to visualize Burton’s outrageous public art display. There are very few public art galleries more unique than that of The Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Established in 1996, the non-profit organizations primary goals involve the collection and preservation of classic Las Vegas signage for exhibition and cultural
Tesla’s 2014 acquisition of SolarCity turned the electric vehicle manufacturer into the undisputed largest player in residential solar, but that lead has steadily eroded as its major competitor, Sunrun, surged ahead with more aggressive plans. Now with the $3.2 billion acquisition of the residential solar installation company Vivint Solar, Sunrun looks to solidify its place
New York-based startup iRocket has landed a contract award from the U.S. Air Force to develop and build its fully autonomous small payload rockets, which the company says will be able to launch and propulsively land both its first and second stages, with the potential of launching small payloads on demand in as little as
FP StaffJul 07, 2020 20:58:53 IST At a time when social media giant Facebook is drawing flak for its alleged inaction against hate messages propagated on its platform, the company’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said that she and Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg will meet with civil rights activists protesting against the company’s policies on hate
Amazon is, at long last, rolling out viewer profiles for its video-streaming platform, Prime Video. The new update allows as many as six people to have their own profile on a single Amazon account. In addition to separate watch progress and watchlists, each profile also offers personalized content recommendations based on the watching habits of
The Last of Us Part II has a lot of collectibles, from trading cards and coins to safes and workbenches. Out of all of them, though, the artifacts are the most daunting. There are 127 artifacts in The Last of Us Part II, and unlike most collectibles, they show up in nearly every chapter. From Chapter 2
The coronavirus hasn’t gone anywhere. Even as countries scramble to reopen, case numbers continue to rise, and despite a lot of talk about building systems to curtail a second wave, many governments have struggled to put those systems in place. One of the most popular tools for dealing with an outbreak is contact tracing —
Replenysh has been kicking since 2016, but up til now, the Orange County, California startup hasn’t done much press. That changes today, as the company announces that it has raised a $2 million seed round with the fairly lofty goal of transforming recycling in the U.S. A press release outlining Replenysh’s plans offers up plenty
Organise, a U.K. startup that has built a platform to help workers organise and campaign for better rights, has raised £570,000 in seed funding. The round is led by Ada Ventures, fitting into the VC firm’s remit to back “overlooked markets and founders”. Also participating is Form Ventures, RLC Ventures (a seed-stage fund who commit
13:10 (IST) 12:28 (IST) Poco M2 Pro pricing and availabiity 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage: Rs 13,999 6 GB RAM + 64 GB storage: Rs 14,999 6 GB RAM + 128 GB storage: Rs 16,999 The Poco M2 Pro’s first sale is scheduled for 14 July at 12 pm on Flipkart. 12:25 (IST) Poco
The government of South Korea recently put on a dazzling drone display to thank people for their efforts in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, while also reminding them not to let up. The nation received global praise early on in the pandemic for acting quickly and robustly to slow its spread, with only 284 deaths having
Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra Dystopian, U.S.-based face recognition firm Clearview AI has suspended its contract with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), effectively locking its business out of Canada entirely, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Advertisement Clearview has become a particular flash point in the backlash to police use of face recognition, which aside from being riddled
Thrillers are the perfect movies to watch when you’re in the mood for some action, excitement, and suspense but you don’t want a full-blown, gory horror flick. Thankfully, there are plenty of them on Amazon Prime that you can stream. From new titles to films that date back as early as the 1940s, here are
Email is a critical tool in modern-day communications, so it’s natural that many entrepreneurs have tried to overhaul it over the years. In the last decade, email client Mailbox came and went, Slack launched to try to give people an alternative to email and Superhuman emerged to help people more easily reach the promised land of
NBCUniversal’s streaming platform, Peacock, was released on April 15 to a limited audience of Comcast subscribers, with plans to debut the service nationally on July 15. While NBCUniversal’s service has made it clear that it sees itself as a new take on cable, with an impressive lineup of new and classic television series from the
The iPhone X is completely different from any of its predecessors. It was the first iPhone to boast a stunning OLED screen, as well as the first to do away the iconic iPhone home button. Like any smartphone, there are always a few issues that crop up. We’ve compiled a list of common iPhone X problems
Video Game Deluxe is looking for help on a new project for GTA and Read Dead developer Rockstar Games. Earlier today an eagle-eyed Redditor by the name of u/arthlands_vr shared a link to a job listing posted on LinkedIn made by Sydney-based game developer Video Games Deluxe in which the company confirms it is in
This morning as the markets rally, shares of Lyft are up 3% while Uber shares are up 6%. Why is Uber so far ahead of Lyft, its domestic ride-hailing rival that is suffering from the same economic impacts? It appears that investors are heartened that Uber has closed its Postmates acquisition after both firms danced around
First revealed last Summer with an intended release to coincide with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Sony’s wearable personal air conditioner is finally available for sale to help you battle the Summer heat when you occasionally step outside to brave the sun’s rage and the ongoing pandemic. Advertisement Working alongside a special t-shirt that suspends the
Apple has released many iPhones. Yes, some — like the iPhone X and later — are more distinctive than others, but it’s not always obvious whether you have an iPhone 7 or an iPhone 6. This is especially true if you didn’t happen to buy your iPhone yourself. This can be a problem if you
FP TrendingJul 06, 2020 18:45:01 IST In a first of its kind instance, some amphibian creatures in Brazil were found to have dental glands that produce venom, similar to those found in snakes. Caecilians are worm-like toothy amphibians who lack legs and have a smooth, silky outer look that already resembles snakes. Now scientists have
Uber has reportedly agreed to buy Postmates in an all-stock deal worth $2.65 billion. According to Bloomberg, the deal may be announced on Monday morning. Like other travel- and transportation-related businesses, Uber’s ride-hailing segment has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to shelter-in-place orders throughout the United States. On-demand delivery, however, has grown,
Rocket Lab suffered a launch failure on Sunday, July 5, which resulted in the loss of its Electron rocket and payload minutes after lifting off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The issue that ended the mission occurred several minutes into the flight during the vehicle’s second-stage burn, leading to the loss of seven satellites in
NASA astronaut Doug Hurley arrived at the International Space Station with Bob Behnken aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft at the end of May 2020. The mission marked the first astronaut use of the Crew Dragon, and the first crewed launch from U.S. soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. As well
The best family plan right now is T-Mobile’s Magenta, which offers unlimited data at unbeatable prices, including the option to add a third line for free right now. You can add up to eight lines, and additional lines beyond the first three are $20 each. We have some alternative options if T-Mobile service isn’t great
The summer of VR continues with two big announcements from Resolution Games. If you are a big fan of Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs—and why wouldn’t you be—then this is just the kind of news your looking for. Thanks to a new kick-ass update, you now have the power to build and share your
From Into the Night’s first season. Image: Netflix Netflix’s Into the Night is a point of personal fascination for me, for the sole and entire reason that is absolutely bizarre. A thriller about literally outrunning the sun, it is a weird melange of influences and concepts, including being inspired by a novel (Jacek Dukaj’s The Old
Video game graphics have come a long way since the industry’s early days, and according to an Epic Games executive, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X will help take visuals to an even higher level. Epic Games’ chief technology officer Kim Liberi said in an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine U.K. that the next-generation