This is what you need to know about the latest attempt to rein in the power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
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Turns out Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters is no fan of Mark Zuckerberg and his social media empire. The longtime rocker made his thoughts on the Facebook and Instagram chief clear on video during a recent "Free Julian Assange" event, Rolling Stone...
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Harpreet Rai, the CEO of smart ring company Oura, often tells a story about a March 2020 Facebook post. An Oura ring user posted that the device said that his overall health score had dropped below his normal level, which prompted him to get tested...
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A police officer in Warren, Michigan is being investigated after allegedly going on an unhinged racist rant about Black people during a Facebook discussion.
Click On Detroit reports that the Warren Police Department is investigating one of its...
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Vermont has the nation’s highest vaccination rate — 72.4%Wyoming has a rate that is well below average — 38.2%Why such a big difference? These states rank number 49 and 50 in population. Both states...
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“We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this...
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Creators can create topics for chats, similar to Discord channels.
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Last week word got out that Facebook was taking another big step into first-party hardware with the planned launch of its own smartwatch. The most intriguing part of the report was the inclusion of not one but two watches. Other wearable makers have...
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In April, Facebook announced a slew of new audio products, including its Clubhouse clone, called Live Audio Rooms, which will be available across both Facebook and Messenger. Since May, Facebook has been publicly testing the audio rooms feature in...
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A new study used biased “fact-checkers” to determine what was “true” and claimed conservatives couldn’t tell the difference between factual and misleading news as well as liberals.
The report had some obvious flaws. Many of the...
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Here are four stocks with buy ranks and strong growth characteristics for investors to consider today, June 15th:Facebook, Inc. (FB): This company that develops products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family carries a Zacks...
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Wondering how to deactivate Facebook Messenger but can’t find the option? You’re not alone. Facebook has made it somewhat difficult to disable Messenger without disabling other Facebook services first. Here’s how it works.Read This...
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A long running privacy fight between Belgium’s data protection authority and Facebook — over the latter’s use of online trackers like pixels and social plug-ins to snoop on web users — has culminated in a ruling by...
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E-commerce platform Shopify announced this morning its one-click checkout service known as Shop Pay will become available to any U.S. merchant that sells on Facebook or Google — even if they don’t use Shopify’s software to power...
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Protests against the growing Chinese influence are increasingly being used as a pretext to oppose the government Originally published on Global VoicesMarch 27, 2021 anti-Chinese demonstration in Almaty. Photo taken Zhanbolat Mamay's Facebook...
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IRL’s groups and events can be accessed on its app or website. | Image: IRL
Do people want an app specifically for discovering events and messaging as a group? That’s the bet behind IRL, a young social network that has been quietly...
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Here's what you need to know about the latest attempt to rein in the power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
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Jessica Bustle and her husband Joshua, circled, seen inside the Capitol building during the insurrection.
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Joshua and Jessica Bustle pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count in connection to the Capitol riot.
Jessica...
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Good morning and welcome to your weekday morning roundup of the top stories you need to know.For more daily and weekly briefings, sign up for our newsletters here.What's going on today: LMM apologizes. "In trying to paint a mosaic of this...
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Facebook and Apple are at loggerheads these days which is great for two reason: 1) “loggerheads” is just a delightful word and 2) Facebook is just awful. Absolutely terrible.
Just perennially wrong and gross.
The Macalope hopes...
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