On Microsoft’s search engine Bing, searching for “Tank Man,” the iconic figure from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China, turned up no image results in the United States for part of Friday. Vice was able to produce the same results in the US, and heard from multiple users from Continue Reading
Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple employees are pushing back against a new policy that would require them to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Staff members say they want a flexible approach where those who want to work remote can do Continue Reading
TikTok says the repeat removal of the intersex hashtag was a mistake
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Pidgeon Pagonis, an intersex activist, noticed last week that the #intersex hashtag wasn’t working on TikTok. They couldn’t click the tag on one of their own posts and trying to search for intersex pulled up a “null” page. This was the second time Continue Reading
Here’s why you can’t use the Siri Remote’s best feature on Disney Plus and other apps
The redesigned Siri Remote for Apple TV. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s new Siri Remote introduced a gesture that makes it easy to scrub through content by turning the control pad into a scroll wheel. But a number of Apple TV users noticed that the feature Continue Reading
Nvidia and Valve are bringing DLSS to Linux
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Linux gamers using Valve’s Proton compatibility tool to run Windows games will be getting a performance upgrade in the future: Nvidia has announced that it’s working with Valve to bring FPS boosts using its DLSS technology featured on its RTX cards. It’s almost Continue Reading
Jack Dorsey would rather give you a bitcoin wallet than Twitter features worth paying for
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter Blue — the social network’s first subscription product that adds an undo button to tweets among other minor additions like changing the color of icons and adding folders for bookmarks — launched on Thursday. It’s limited to Canada and Australia for now Continue Reading
Glenn Greenwald: Fauci emails reveal that he misrepresented certainty on COVID-19 data
Author and journalist Glenn Greenwald on Thursday said that he thinks the main issue revealed by Anthony Fauci’s recently published emails is the contrast between how the infectious disease expert presented COVID-19…
Alienware M15 R5 Ryzen Edition review: the right parts at a high price
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T-Mobile employee files suit after HR asked invasive questions about her OnlyFans account
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A sales rep at a T-Mobile store in Fort Worth, Texas has filed a gender discrimination suit against the company after a member of the HR team inappropriately questioned her about having an OnlyFans account. Caitlyn Stevens had been working at T-Mobile for Continue Reading
Tinder will start letting you block people by their phone number
Image: Tinder Tinder is finally letting you avoid all your exes, friends, colleagues, relatives, and anyone else you might not want to run into on a dating app. The company announced today it’ll start allowing people to block their phone contacts. Romance-seekers can access the feature from their settings, under Continue Reading