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Twitter says it has suspended over 70,000 accounts involved in spreading harmful QAnon-associated content since Friday — Following the horrific events in Washington, DC, last week, here are some of the steps we've taken to protect the conversation on our service from attempts to incite violence …
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Parler is suing Amazon after its AWS suspension, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations, including that Amazon hoped to reduce competition for Twitter — Parler has sued Amazon after the beleaguered conservative social media site was expelled from AWS, filing a fanciful complaint alleging …
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Facebook says it is now removing content containing the phrase “stop the steal”, under Facebook and Instagram's Coordinating Harm policy — We began preparing for Inauguration Day last year. But our planning took on new urgency after last week's violence in Washington, D.C. …
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Angela Merkel says social media's ban of the president's accounts is “problematic” and rules governing speech should happen by law, a sentiment echoed by France — - Chancellor Merkel calls Trump's ban on Twitter ‘problematic’ — France's Beaune says private actors shouldn't have such power
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Tweets: @evan_greer, @erikhinton, @gwensnyderphl, @ggreenwald, @kurteichenwald, @webdevmason, @albertwenger, and @dtrinh
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Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on hardware-based security, for the enterprise market — Intel is aiming for a comeback, and today, it unveiled four new processor families that it will deliver in 2021.| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel previews 14nm Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, its next consumer flagship processor, coming in Q1, promising up to 50% better integrated graphics performance — Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time. The excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node …
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Facebook says it's freezing all contributions from its PAC through at least Q1 as it reviews its political spending, joining Microsoft and Google — Facebook is halting political spending for at least the first quarter of 2021 following last week's deadly attack on the Capitol.| Melissa Repko / CNBC: |
Walmart says it will launch a fintech start-up, with Ribbit Capital owning a minority share in the new company — - Walmart said Monday that it will launch a fintech start-up with Ribbit Capital, one of the investment firms behind Robinhood. — The retail giant interacts with millions of customers …
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IDC: PC shipments for 2020 were up 13.1% YoY, the most annual growth in the market since 2010's 13.7% increase — The PC is far from dead — The PC was supposed to die 10 years ago, but it's just experienced its first big growth in a decade. Market research firm Canalys reports …
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Facebook hires Roy L. Austin, Jr., a renowned civil rights attorney and advocate, to establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook — Civil rights attorney Roy L. Austin, Jr., who focused on policing in the Obama administration, first at the Justice Department and then at the White House …
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Tweets: @nick_clegg, @willoremus, @angelajdavis, @digitalsista, @cat_zakrzewski, @mosseri, and @kimmaicutler
| Emily Czachor / Newsweek: |
North Idaho ISP Your T1 WIFI will block Facebook and Twitter for customers that request it after it received complaints over censorship — Your T1 WiFi, an internet service provider based in northwestern Idaho, will implement firewalls that restrict access to Facebook and Twitter at its customers' requests.
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Tweets: @mattlynley, @zefrank, @mark_riedl, and @brat2381
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Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga: less than half an inch thick, 2K touch display with 450 nits of brightness, 11th-gen Intel i7 vPro, starts at $1,899 — Plus a new X1 Carbon and X1 Yoga — Lenovo announced a bunch of additions to its ThinkPad line today, headlined by the new X1 Titanium Yoga.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Muslim prayer app Salaat First, with 10M+ Android downloads, tracks users' location in the UK, Germany, France, and Italy and sells it to data broker Predicio — Salaat First has more than ten million downloads and sold location data to Predicio, which is linked to a U.S. contractor which works with ICE.
Tweets: @dandiaasad, @jason_koebler, @yassmin_a, @lailaalarian, and @rowaida_abdel
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
LG says Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now are coming to its latest TVs in the second half of 2021 — Game streaming comes natively to the TV screen — LG has announced that it's bringing two of the leading cloud gaming services, Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now, to its newest TVs later this year.
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LG NEWSROOM, The Verge, ces2021.lgusnewsroom.com, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Ars Technica, Android Headlines, Gizchina, Wccftech, International Business Times, TalkAndroid.com, GameSpot, CNET, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Android Police, Engadget, SlashGear, Phandroid, TechHive, Droid Life, and TechCrunch
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