Image: WinFuture It appears as if big tech companies have found some level of footing and are gearing up to see if they can sell some new phones in the middle of the pandemic. Today, OnePlus will be announcing the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro, for example. Its sister company Oppo has already announced the
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has fired two Seattle-based employees who publicly criticized safety and working conditions at its warehouses during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Post reports. User experience designers Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa were both fired on Friday after they tweeted criticism of the company, and offered to match
Read MoreOnePlus will unveil its new flagship phones in a digital event on Tuesday. Watch along with us live. OnePlus 8 launch event livestream: When and how to watch – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWhile tech companies have had to stop showing their new devices in front of live, cheering audiences, that doesn’t mean they’re not going to introduce their products with as much fanfare as possible. Today, OnePlus will introduce its new line of phones (according to reports, the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro). But what can
Read MoreLast week, Apple and Google surprised us with an announcement that the companies are spinning up a system to enable widespread contact tracing in an effort to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The effort is barely two and a half weeks old, the companies said, and so there are many open questions about how it will
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge The Nintendo Switch’s 10.0.0 firmware update, which is available now, adds the ability for you to transfer your downloaded games directly from system memory to an SD card, or vice versa, to free up storage. The update also allows you to remap buttons on your controller and illustrate
Read MorePre-sales for Nubia’s flagship RedMagic 5G start Tuesday, April 14th with global sales beginning on April 21st. RedMagic 5G phone with 144Hz display goes on pre-sale today – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYou can’t claim to be a flagship phone in 2020 without having a high-refresh-rate display, and a new benchmark has now been set. RedMagic, a sub-brand of ZTE sub-brand Nubia, is putting its latest gaming phone up for global pre-order today, making the RedMagic 5G the first phone you’ll be able to buy with a
Read More{$inline_image}For entrepreneurs, venture capital outreach and fundraising can be more stressful than growing a business. VCs are notorious for being difficult to access and even more conservative with their time. In fact, a study found that VCs spend an average of just 3 minutes and 44 seconds reading and evaluating the average startup pitch deck.
Read MoreThe Tiger King crooner is especially popular in Denmark and North Dakota. Joe Exotic's Tiger King songs a hit on Spotify – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe two terminated workers had been outspoken critics of the e-commerce giant’s climate policies and were previously warned about making public comments about the company’s business. Amazon fires two tech workers who criticized the company’s warehouse workplace conditions Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreThe fires began on April 3 and have reached Pripyat, a town just five minutes drive from Chernobyl. Chernobyl wildfires move within two miles of nuclear power plant – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOnePlus is slated to unveil its new flagship phones in a digital event on Tuesday. Watch along with us here. OnePlus 8 launch event livestream: When and how to watch the unveiling – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA rare arrangement of planets and a fading supermoon can help early risers keep the week on track. See a pre-dawn lineup of Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and the 'pink moon' this week – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Tiger King is a big hit in Denmark and North Dakota. Joe Exotic's Tiger King songs are now on Spotify – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNew research suggests the weird object may have been ripped from another planet and flung in our general direction by a distant star. Oumuamua more likely an interstellar space shard than an alien spaceship – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe CEO is co-funding $4.2 million with Rihanna’s foundation for the LA mayor’s fund to deal with domestic violence related to stay-at-home orders. Twitter's Jack Dorsey pledges B to coronavirus relief, .1M to related domestic violence – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe tech giants say “fragmentation” issues won’t hold people back from getting the new tools. Here's how you'll get Apple and Google's new contact tracing app for your phone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has confirmed that it will use the Google Play Services infrastructure to update Android phones with the upcoming COVID-19 contact tracing system it is building in collaboration with Apple. It should ensure that more Android phones will actually get the updates, and also ensure that they become
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit is launching a new subreddit that will list all political ad campaigns that have run on the site since January 1st, 2019, the company announced today. The new subreddit can be found at r/RedditPoliticalAds. “In this community, you will find information on the individual advertiser, their targeting,
Read MoreNew research suggests the weird object may have been ripped from another planet and flung in our general direction by a distant star. Oumuamua is more likely an interstellar space shard than an alien space ship – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePlus: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is discharged from the hospital, and US becomes country with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths. Coronavirus updates: 80 million Americans expected to get stimulus checks this week – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe order currently includes March and April, but will likely also include May. California orders auto insurers to refund premiums due to coronavirus – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreCaleb and Dolores enter romance territory this episode. And in a twist — Aaron Paul has a brush with drugs. Westworld season 3 episode 5 recap: Romance, drugs and origin stories – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom will let paying customers pick which data centers calls can be routed through starting April 18th, the company announced in a blog post today. The changes come after a report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab found that Zoom generated encryption keys for some calls from
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