Janitors, Bus Drivers On Returning To Schools: Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t

Staff are afraid of getting coronavirus as more students return — but many are even more afraid of losing their jobs.

Chris Christie Won’t Blame Trump For COVID-19, Says He Should’ve Worn Mask

The former governor said he was “wrong not to wear a mask at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement.”

Twitter Is Experiencing A Large-Scale Outage

The site went down amid its fight with Republicans over blocking certain content.

WeChat Likely Won’t Be Banned While Court Battle Proceeds, Judge Indicates

A federal judge in San Francisco indicated that the Department of Justice still doesn’t have jack shit to convince her to allow the Trump administration to move forward with a ban on new downloads of Chinese messaging app WeChat while court battles proceed, per the Verge.

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Twitter Is Down for Some Users, and Here's Hoping It Stays That Way

The place online where hopes and dreams go to die, Twitter dot com, is evidently down for a number of users—which honestly sounds like the best news I’ve heard in a while.

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Google Hangouts Is Officially Biting the Dust

Earlier today, Google announced in a corporate blog post that the die-hards currently left on the Hangouts messaging platform are officially getting the boot. Starting in early 2021, the company will start making moves to “automatically migrate” everyone’s Hangouts chat history and contacts to the Google…

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GameStop’s new deal with Microsoft includes Xbox digital revenue sharing

Struggling video game retailer GameStop quietly announced a major new revenue-sharing deal with Microsoft last week, eclipsing the news with information about what Microsoft gets from this arrangement. Details about the mutual benefits provided by this business arrangement have trickled out, however, with insiders claiming that Microsoft will share a portion of the revenue earned through digital transactions that take … Continue reading

Twitter is down on web and mobile and no one knows why

Popular social media platform Twitter is down for users on both desktop and mobile for reasons that remain unknown at this time. Users began reporting issues with accessing content on the platform earlier today, an outage that is still in place as of 6 PM ET. Though the platform itself loads, Twitter doesn’t currently display any content, instead slapping users … Continue reading

GM will test fully driverless cars in SF later this year

General Motors and its self-driving car unit Cruise say they’ll start testing unmanned autonomous vehicles in San Francisco by the end of 2020 (via NBC News). On Thursday, the subsidiary said it received a permit from California’s Department of Motor…

Twitter is down, but why?

cJust a day after Twitter got caught up in an outrage cycle over whether or not it should allow leaks to a certain story and Senate Republicans floated the idea of sending a subpoena to CEO Jack Dorsey, the service is suddenly inaccessible for many p…