Caroline Haskins
caroline.haskins@vice.comMoviePass Is Shutting Down on September 14
The movie-watching subscription service is shutting down its services on September 14, according to a news wire press release.
Drivers Keep Falling Asleep in Moving Teslas
Footage shared on Twitter Sunday shows a driver and a passenger asleep in what appears to be a Tesla Model X.
Ring Has Given ‘Active Camera’ Maps of Its Customers to Police
Several months before Ring donated 80 Ring doorbells to the Gwinnett County Police Department, Ring gave two maps of “active” Ring cameras in the county to police.
Review: Three Different Pairs of $30 Counterfeit AirPods
If AirPods are the crude results of capitalism's machinery, then what do counterfeit AirPods say about us?
Ring Says It’s Partnered With 405 Police Departments, Here’s What We Still Don’t Know
Ring said in a blog post that it’s partnered with 405 law enforcement agencies, after months of refusing to disclose this information to reporters. We still have a lot of questions.
This AI Gives Emojis Real Faces and the Results Are Horrifying
If you train a machine learning tool to find human features in emojis, the results are not pretty.
Clueless Celebrities Are Making an Instagram Hoax Go Viral
Countless users are sharing a version of an Instagram post that falsely claims the platform will “disclose" after an unspecified time “tomorrow.”
ICE Just Renewed Its Contract With Palantir
Despite organized protests around the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement just renewed its contract with Peter Thiel’s data aggregation and surveillance company.
Cities Asked Ring to Share ‘Registry Lists’ of Customers Who Bought Surveillance Cameras
Police want the names and addresses of people who own Ring cameras so they can tap into a private surveillance network.
Bernie Sanders Is the First Candidate to Call for Ban on Facial Recognition
The Democratic candidate for president published a criminal justice overhaul plan on Sunday which called, among other things, for a ban on the government use of facial recognition.
Police Promised Witnesses Free Ring Surveillance Cameras If They Testified Against Neighbors
The police department of El Monte, CA started a “Ring Reward Program” about a month before it entered a partnership with Ring.
TikTok Users Are Inventing Wild Theories to Explain Its Mysterious Algorithm
No one knows how TikTok’s For You page algorithm works, so users have taken it upon themselves to construct their own theories.