The Best TikToks of 2020
Year in Review This year, perhaps more than any other before it, social media served to both connect people and reflect society back onto itself. In 2020, no platform did…
18 Passive-Aggressive Gifts for Your Terrible Roommate
When you share a living space with other human beings, a few bumps in the road are inevitable. That’s especially true now that, thanks to the ongoing pandemic, you’ve been…
Vaccines Are Here. We Have to Talk About Side Effects
Since Monday, eagerly awaited Covid-19 vaccines have been going into the upper arms of health care workers around the United States, the first slender tranche of millions of doses to…
How Restaurants Retooled for Takeout—and Survival
The owners’ resistance to takeout is almost forgotten. “If we want the business to survive, we had to change the business model,” said White. Go National Another restaurant rethinking form…
3,400 Dead
An American flag flies over the entrance to a disaster morgue holding the bodies of people who died of covid-19 at South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York City.Photo: Spencer…
Google acquires Neverware, a company that turns old PCs into Chromebooks
Today, Neverware announced in an FAQ that it’s now part of Google. Neverware, based in New York City, makes a software application called CloudReady that allows you to convert a…
Facebook hits back at Apple with second critical newspaper ad
Facebook is stepping up its campaign against Apple’s privacy changes with a second full-page newspaper ad today. This new ad claims Apple’s iOS 14 privacy changes “will change the internet…
Here’s the best look yet at Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro wireless earbuds
Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Pro have leaked again, this time in a full 360-degree animation courtesy of Evan Blass. The latest @Evleaks drop gives us our best look yet at how…
Facebook is temporarily disabling some Messenger and Instagram features in Europe
Facebook is notifying Messenger and Instagram users in Europe that some features are temporarily unavailable. A small message has appeared in both the Facebook Messenger and Instagram apps for European…
Texas sues Google for its unlawful monopoly in the ad business
Texas state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of malpractice to create a monopoly in the digital ad business. The case also…