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| Bruce Haring / Deadline: |
Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business — Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
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Fox News, Fox News, The Verge, Apple Terminal, Input, Gizmodo, Daring Fireball, and New York Post
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Parler CEO confirms that Amazon will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST, says Parler may be unavailable on the internet for up to a week — Amazon notified Parler that it would be cutting off the social network favored by conservatives and extremists …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence — Financial-technology company's move follows last week's riot at the Capitol — Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments …
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Axios, TechCrunch, The Hill, CNET, NBC News, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @adamparkhomenko, @thekenyeung, @willsmith, @rafranzdavis, and @maggienyt
| Axios: |
A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more — Platforms are rapidly removing Donald Trump's account or accounts affiliated with pro-Trump violence and conspiracies, like QAnon and #StoptheSteal.
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| Washington Post: |
Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, as a source says the president will spend the final days of his term railing against Big Tech — Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
High-stakes calls at Facebook or Twitter, corporate autocracies masquerading as mini-democracies, are just gut decisions made under extreme duress by their CEOs — The ability of a handful of people to control our public discourse has never been more obvious.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor and Apple Inc plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production as early …
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Tweets: @asymco, @jgamblin, @detroitborg, @gabrielstephen_, and @detroitborg
| Venessa Wong / BuzzFeed News: |
GoFundMe says it is returning funds to the donors of campaigns that were meant to cover the travel costs of Trump supporters to the January 6 rally in DC — Trump supporters used GoFundMe to fund travel and other costs to attend Wednesday's Trump rally in Washington, DC …
Tweets: @dellcam
| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK's National Health Service and others — Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal.
Tweets: @tprstly, @donelson52, and @rschon
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses that can show up to 5 virtual 1080p displays, come with 8 MP camera and 2 fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking — Lenovo has launched a new ThinkReality device for CES 2021, and the company says it's “one of the most advanced and versatile” smart glasses for enterprise customers.
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XDA Developers, The Next Web, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, CNET, VentureBeat, Laptop Mag, and Neowin
| C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: |
HP unveils an HP Elite Folio 2-in-1 tablet with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 5G chipset, a $999 HP Envy 14 laptop with 11th-gen Intel chips, HP Elite earbuds, more — - At CES 2021, HP launched some new laptops, including the much-anticipated HP Envy 14. — It also launched a new entry …
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
[Thread] A look back at the state of tech and mobile industries during the first iPhone keynote 14 years ago, the importance of which took years to sink in — Today is the 13th anniversary iPhone announcement—easily one of the greatest launch events and moments of technology change in history. What was the “world” like at the time? When something changes the world so much it seems obvious in hindsight. That was not at all the case. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
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