Admit It: The Facebook Oversight Board Is Kind of Working
Facebook has agreed to follow some of the board’s nonbinding recommendations regarding the Donald Trump suspension. That’s progress. Judging from the press releases filling my inbox and the tweets lighting up my...
The All-Seeing Eyes of New York’s 15,000 Surveillance Cameras
Video from the cameras is often used in facial-recognition searches. A report finds they are most common in neighborhoods with large nonwhite populations.A new video from human rights organization Amnesty International...
Help! Must We With the Virtual Meeting Small Talk?
Megan weighs in on the value of idle chatter.Dear OOO,How much small talk is the right amount in video meetings? My company seems pretty equally divided between people who open by...
The Most Radical Thing About Ford's Electric Pickup? The Cost
After tax credits, the base model of the electric pickup will be cheaper than its gas-fueled sibling, removing what has been a big barrier for EV sales.The all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning,...
ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality
The secret campaign, backed by major broadband companies, used real people’s names without their consent.The largest Internet providers in the US funded a campaign that generated “8.5 million fake comments” to...
Epic v. Apple and the Plan to Avoid ‘Looking Like the Baddies’
This week’s antitrust trial against Apple reveals in new detail how the Fortnite developer aimed to take on the industry's titans.“You’ll enjoy the upcoming fireworks show,” wrote Epic Games CEO Tim...
AI Helps Prove Two Scribes Wrote Text of a Dead Sea Scroll
Most scholars thought the Isaiah Scroll was copied by a single author. New handwriting analysis just revealed otherwise.Most of the scribes who copied the text contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls...
The Expert Secures $3M in Seed Funding—Thanks in Part to Gwyneth Paltrow
Backed by VC firms, AD100 designer Brigette Romanek, and the Goop founder, The Expert focuses on being the industry’s design-consultation platform of choice