Monthly Archives: July 2022

UK’s ambitious plan to overhaul online safety laws delayed by government chaos

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For years, the UK government has been cooking up legislation to more tightly regulate online spaces. Provisions in the Online Safety Bill include mandatory age-checks on porn sites and jail time for tech execs who withhold data from investigators. Now, these ambitious and controversial plans have been…

Robin raises $30M to expand its office reservation software as companies embrace hybrid work

Thanks to the pandemic, teams are more distributed than ever. For some companies, that’s led to a disconnect between lower-level employees and leadership, the latter of whom are generally skeptical of remote work. According to a survey from GoodHire, 75% of managers want workers in the office, citing the potential lack of focus and loss…

Netflix’s ‘Drifting Home’ trailer introduces a mysterious, water-filled anime world

Anime has a strong track record in transporting us to new and mysterious worlds, and it looks like Netflix‘s new movie Drifting Home will be no exception. The film follows two childhood friends who go to play in the now-abandoned apartment building where they grew up, only to suddenly find themselves floating through a watery…