Facebook cancels F8 developer conference due to coronavirus concerns
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has canceled the in-person portion of F8, the company’s annual developer conference,
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Month: February 2020
Plague Inc. pulled from the App Store in China amid coronavirus outbreak
Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images The popular game Plague Inc., where you create a disease with the goal
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WeWork’s fall is so wild that it’s getting a second TV series, this one for Apple
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WeWork was 2019’s soap opera of a company, and its story was so
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Horror story subreddit goes dark to protest Youtubers ripping off writers
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The popular horror story subreddit r/nosleep has set itself to private until Monday
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Unions are pushing the FTC to investigate Amazon for anti-competitive practices
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A coalition of some of the largest labor unions in the US have
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Clearview AI’s client list includes 2,200 organizations spanning law enforcement to universities
Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Justice, the FBI, Macy’s, and
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E-bike startup Wheels lays off staff as dockless micromobility struggles continue
Wheels, a Los Angeles-based startup that rents electric bikes in over a dozen cities, is laying off 6 percent of
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Nio inks a $1.4 billion bailout as coronavirus sinks sales
Images: Nio Leading Chinese electric vehicle startup Nio has struggled over the last year or so, and recently warned shareholders
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Uber tweaks its app to improve those pesky pickups
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has announced two new features that are meant to improve communication between
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Ford’s Spin electric scooters are coming to Europe
Image: Spin Spin, the dockless electric scooter company purchased by Ford in 2018, is expanding beyond the US. TechCrunch reports
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