Month: April 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is changing its unpaid leave policies starting next month, according to a report from Bloomberg. On May 1st, hourly employees — a vast majority of which are among the company’s 250,000 or so warehouse workers who cannot work from home — must request an unpaid leave of absence to … Continue reading Amazon to impose new unpaid leave restrictions for warehouse workers starting May 1st Continue Reading →

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber has informed residents of San Francisco’s Treasure Island neighborhood it will no longer make Uber Eats deliveries to the area because of new city regulations temporarily capping delivery commissions. Uber says the regulations limit the company’s “ability to cover operational costs.” But San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney … Continue reading Uber faces criticism for stopping food deliveries to low-income neighborhood in San Francisco Continue Reading →

Amazon has lost its appeal of a French court ruling that requires the company to temporarily stop delivering nonessential items in France or face hefty fines, the New York Times reported. The Versailles Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling that led the e-commerce company to close six of its fulfillment centers in France and put workers on paid furlough. Amazon … Continue reading Amazon restricted from selling non-essential items in France after it loses court appeal Continue Reading →

Nathalie Lawhead Have you installed the latest version of Mackerelmedia Fish? No, not Macromedia Flash. Mackerelmedia Fish. The piscine rich media plugin, created by experimental game designer Nathalie Lawhead, used in projects like the hacking tool Haxatron 2000. A relic of an era where social media hadn’t eaten the internet, amateurish weirdness was the norm, and visiting a … Continue reading Play Mackerelmedia Fish, a strangely adorable ode to dying websites Continue Reading →

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Chinese government has ordered ByteDance to take down its Feishu workplace messaging tool from app stores in China for a month because it let users access posts from Facebook and Twitter, which are banned in the country, Bloomberg reported. ByteDance, which also operates the social media app TikTok, developed Feishu … Continue reading China reportedly orders TikTok owner ByteDance to remove Feishu workplace app Continue Reading →

After spending about $25 million on the project, British technology company Dyson says the UK government doesn’t need the ventilator it developed to help treat COVID-19 patients, Reuters reported. The company, best known for its vacuum cleaners, said last month it had an order from the UK government for 10,000 of the breathing machines and developed one it called … Continue reading Dyson says the UK doesn’t need the ventilator it developed to treat COVID-19 patients Continue Reading →

Coursera Online learning platform Coursera will make 3,800 of its courses available for free to people unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Gizmodo reported. The Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative is part of its Coursera for Government training program for government employees. The goal of the initiative is to help workers develop skills to become re-employed, according to a Coursera blog … Continue reading Coursera to give unemployed workers free access to 3,800 online courses Continue Reading →