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Twitter pauses its plan to delete inactive accounts, after concerns were raised about deceased users, until it creates a way to memorialize accounts — Twitter said Wednesday it was putting on hold a plan to delete inactive accounts amid concerns that accounts from deceased users would be swept up in the purge.
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Twitter should offer a way to memorialize accounts of deceased people before removing accounts that have been inactive for over six months — There are a few ways that people use Twitter, but for the most part the ones who have pushed the social platform into the national lexicon are regular users …
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Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country — Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.
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Sources: amid a CFIUS investigation, ByteDance is separating TikTok from its Chinese operations and providing assurances US user data is inaccessible to China — - ByteDance has stepped up efforts to separate its social media app TikTok from much of its Chinese operations … | Leo Kelion / BBC: |
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| Stella Bugbee / New York Magazine: |
Q&A with Kevin Systrom on Instagram in the 2010s: selling to Facebook for $1B, its positive and negative social impact, the influencer economy, and more — As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Valve says its Steam Controller, launched in 2013 as part of the failed Steam Machines program, will no longer be made; last units will sell for $5/controller — An amazing gadget bites the dust — Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Good Deals stamp of approval … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Investigation shows how easy it is to register .gov domains using forged credentials; many US cities including LA, Houston haven't registered their .gov domains — Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Leaked docs: Amazon's Ring was working on neighborhood “watch lists” and a feature to notify users of individuals deemed suspicious, built on facial recognition — Ring, Amazon's crimefighting surveillance camera division, has crafted plans to use facial recognition software …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Outlook.com can now be installed as a Progressive Web App on Windows or macOS by using Chromium-based browsers — You can now install Outlook.com as an app — Microsoft is turning its Outlook.com and Outlook for the Web mail services into Progressive Web Apps (PWA).
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Huawei Mate 30 Pro review: impressive hardware and camera but the lack of inbuilt Google services is a deal breaker, making it hard to justify the €1,099 price — It's been roughly 2 months now since Huawei announced the new Mate 30 Pro as well as the Kirin 990 chipsets.Thanks:@anandtech
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Court allows class action related to Facebook's 2018 breach to proceed; says the 29M users, as a group, can ask for better security procedures, but not damages — (Reuters) - A federal judge said up to 29 million Facebook Inc (FB.O) users whose personal information was stolen … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter confirms it is testing threaded conversations features from its prototype twttr app on Twitter.com, ahead of the official rollout next year — Twttr, the prototype app Twitter launched earlier this year, has been testing new ways to display conversations, including through the use of threaded replies and other visual cues.
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