2019 has been hell of a ride for the coworking industry. Alongside reports of unprecedented growth of flexible ‘coworking,’ we’ve also watched one of the biggest media furors unfold with our industry’s first mover, WeWork. Funny enough, I’ve been on parental leave since September with my second child, and in that time, WeWork pulled out
Read MorePhoto by James Bareham / The Verge Best Buy is having a flash sale from 7PM ET on December 19th to 1AM ET on December 20th. There’s a range of deals, but we’ve collected the ones that stood out to us here. Most of these items are expected to ship in time for Christmas. Best
Read MoreChris Eggertsen / Billboard: Jury finds Cox Communications liable for its customers’ piracy of 10,000+ musical works, awards $1B to Sony Music, EMI, Universal, and Warner Music — Cox Communications was found liable for piracy infringement of more than 10,000 musical works by a U.S. District Court jury in Virgina on Thursday … Jury finds
Read MoreText messages indicate that Makan Delrahim, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, worked behind the scenes to help the companies pull off a deal. How a Top Antitrust Official Helped T-Mobile and Sprint Merge Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreResearchers found that most facial-recognition algorithms exhibit “demographic differentials” that can worsen their accuracy based on a person’s age, gender or race. Federal study confirms racial bias of many facial-recognition systems, casts doubt on their expanding use Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Claire Stapleton, one of the organizers of the watershed Google Walkout protest, has penned a first-person essay for Elle magazine detailing her time at the search giant and the series of events leading up to her resignation this past June after alleged retaliation from upper management. The essay,
Read MoreIt must have lost its a-peel. Elon Musk tweets, deletes silly Cybertruck banana photo – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you used your credit card or debit card to buy gas or pay for snacks at any Wawa convenience store, anytime in the past nine months, your card information may have been skimmed by malware. The Philadelphia-based gas and convenience store chain says it discovered the malware on its payment processing servers on December
Read MoreYou can browse the catalog of movies and shows, but you can’t watch ’em. Hulu outage prevents videos from playing – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreImage: Valve Valve Software’s Half-Life: Alyx is less than six months away, and since it requires a VR headset, lots of players might be considering a major hardware purchase right now. The gold standard is Valve’s own Index, with its high-end construction and unique controllers — but that requires a lot of setup and almost
Read MoreFinally, you can cover every square inch of your home in Wi-Fi. Get the excellent Eero 2019 3-piece mesh router for 0 with a free Echo Dot – CNET Source: CNet
Read More{$inline_image}The US National Institute of Standards and Technology today released its 2019 report on facial recognition. And there are no surprises here, it’s just as dystopian as we’ve been warning you about all year. On the group’s conclusions, Patrick Grother, a NIST computer scientist and the report’s primary author, said: While it is usually incorrect
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge After the shaky launch of Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia, which failed to deliver on some promised features amid questions about whether Google would support it long-term, the company announced on Thursday that it has added Typhoon Studios, the indie developer behind the forthcoming game Journey to
Read MoreWe all know that our phones and apps keep tabs on our locations—and it feels like most of us have come to terms with the fact that way too much of this data makes it into the hands of companies that want to advertise to us. The problem? No one really thinks about how that
Read MoreI love starting off my day with an email from Firefox Monitor that one of my login and password combinations has, once again, leaked out to the web. Today, it’s Zynga’s turn for mea culpas, and I’m starting to regret all those rounds of Words With Friends I’ve played. Read more… It's Time to Secure
Read MoreIf you have a Ring doorbell or camera in your home, you should change your password and set up two-factor authentication on your account immediately. Read more… Change Your Ring Account Password Right Now Source: Life Hacker
Read More(NASA/Joel Kowsky) Tomorrow morning, December 20th, Boeing is poised to launch its brand-new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, from Florida, sending it to the International Space Station on top of an Atlas V rocket. The capsule won’t have any people inside, but it’ll be the first flight of the vehicle, meant to prove that future
Read More{$inline_image} Tesla owners will soon be able to charge their vehicles at EVgo charging stations. The EV charging company said it will partner with Elon Musk’s company to install Tesla’s proprietary connector at all of its 750 public charging stations nationwide. The first connectors will be distributed at EVgo’s charging stations in San Francisco, with
Read More“I think the queer Potter community is tired,” said a longtime fan of Rowling’s Harry Potter series. J.K. Rowling tried to make her work more inclusive. Then she tweeted support for an anti-trans researcher. Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreIn an effort to improve privacy, a report says the social network will stop using two-factor authentication data to suggest people you may know. Facebook will reportedly stop using phone numbers for friend suggestions – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you have time off for the holidays, will you get to spend it doing anything fun? What about your free time this evening—what would make that time feel enjoyable and restorative to you? Here’s an idea: perhaps you need to make sure you have two different kinds of fun. Read more… How to Actually
Read MoreGrating cheese on food is one of life’s ultimate pleasures. Shaving curls of salty dairy snow onto greens, soups, and pastas is coded into the food DNA of multiple cultures. Not to be an anthropomorphic Italian food comment, but there’s nothing like the real thing when it comes to Italian cheeses, especially if you’re… Read
Read MoreCanadian scientists give the world its tiniest gingerbread house. Here's what Christmas looks like under a microscope – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe tech giant held the talks as a way to broaden appeal of its Apple TV app and Apple TV Plus subscription service, says a report. Apple said to have talked with Pac-12 and MGM around Apple TV – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTwenty years ago, Amazon opened its storefront to anyone who wanted to sell something. Then it began demanding more out of them. Prime Power: How Amazon Squeezes the Businesses Behind Its Store Source: NY Times Tech
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