Microsoft Brings an End to Reply Allpocalypses

Accidentally hitting reply-all on an email thread was one of the earliest online faux pas to emerge. This week, Microsoft... [Gizmodo]( May 11, 2020 [Microsoft Brings an End to Reply Allpocalypses]( [READ MORE]( [News]( [After Screaming About Discrimination, Ex-Google Engineer James Damore Silently Asks Court to Dismiss Lawsuit]( [More than two years later, the battle between ex-Google engineer James Damore and the company is over, although we won’t know much about how it ended. Earlier this week, Damore and three other men asked a California court to dismiss the lawsuit, which claimed that the company discriminated against conservative white...]( [Sony]( [Here's a First Look at the Tech Behind Sony's Finger-Tracking VR Controllers]( [Thanks to a few patent filings that have surfaced over the last two years, we’ve had an idea that Sony’s been tinkering with finger-tracking technology for a line of new VR motion controllers. It’s still unclear whether these controllers are intended to be a successor to PlayStation Move or part...]( [Health]( [The Nation’s Top Health Leaders Are In Coronavirus Quarantine]( [Some of the nation’s top health leaders are in coronavirus quarantine, including its leading infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a worrying sign that the virus is managing to spread between the people in charge of making highly important decisions about the pandemic.]( [News]( [A Spike of New Coronavirus Infections Prompts Seoul to Close Bars and Clubs]( [Days after South Korea relaxed its social distancing measures, Seoul, its capital city, has tightened them once more after dozens of new coronavirus cases were linked to bars and nightclubs.]( [Climate change]( [Accepting Death Is Not an Option]( [The worst-case scenario with coronavirus is not mass death. It’s that people come to accept mass death—to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 seconds as “just how it is.” Yet that is the proposition being thrust on us now.]( [News]( [Eager for Manufacturing Independence, Feds Eye Bringing Chip Production Stateside: Report]( [The coronavirus pandemic has kicked the Trump administration’s concerns regarding America’s dependence on Asian factories for supplying critical technology into overdrive. According to a new Wall Street Journal report, officials are in talks with several semiconductor companies about potentially building chip factories within the U.S. in an attempt to ramp...]( [Space]( [Jupiter Looks Like a Fireball in This ‘Lucky’ Infrared Image]( [Hard to believe, but this stunning infrared image of Jupiter was taken from Earth’s surface, specifically from the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii. Combined with other observational data, the new image is revealing more about the gas giant’s epic storms and an odd feature seen in its Great Red Spot.]( YOU MAY ALSO LIKE [Kotaku]( [Star Wars Cosplayer Thrown To The Ground, Arrested For Carrying "Plastic Gun"]( [A restaurant in Lethbridge, Canada last week thought it’d be fun for an employee to stand outside dressed as a Stormtrooper to celebrate Star Wars Day on May 4. Instead, the woman in the costume ended up getting the cops called on her and her nose smashed up before being...]( [Lifehacker]( [Delta Is Suspending Service to These 10 US Airports]( [Most of us probably don’t have plans to fly anytime soon. If you do have plans to do so, and those plans involve Delta, then you might need to make a few adjustments.]( [Kotaku]( [Even The Guy Who Wrote That Sea Bass Joke In Animal Crossing Is Tired Of It]( [At this point, the sea bass joke in Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become a meme. Folks hate it. But the man who wrote that joke shared some interesting insight behind it and how much they and the other devs working on the game care about even the smallest details.]( [The A.V. Club]( [Rick And Morty get a little too close to some face-huggers]( [Rick and Morty has gotten increasingly better animated over the years (and it started off fairly strong, if I remember right), and there were sequences in tonight’s episode that have to rank up with the best stuff the show has done yet; not as wildly creative as the never-ending cavalcade...]( [The Root]( [Off-Duty Cop Among Mob in North Carolina That Forced Into Black Woman's Home]( [A group of white people armed with weapons demanded entry into the home of a black woman and her son in Pender County, North Carolina, late last Sunday night and refused to leave.]( You made it to the end. Thanks for reading our newsletter! [Visit Gizmodo]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( [Terms of Use]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Profile Center]( © 2020 Gizmodo Media Group 1540 Broadway, 27th Floor New York, NY 10036