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Brave browser takes step towards enabling a decentralized web
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Virgin’s rocket reaches orbit for the first time, deploys satellites
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GitHub apologizes to the employee it has fired for using the term "Nazis" on Jan. 6 and offers him his job back, says the company's head of HR has resigned
These are the violent threats that made Amazon drop Parler
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Apple is blocking Apple Silicon Mac users from sideloading iPhone apps
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Microsoft is planning to fix a Windows 10 vulnerability that could corrupt a NTFS-formatted hard drive simply by viewing a folder with a malicious shortcut
Leaked screenshots show GitHub employees using the term "Nazi" in its internal Slack to protest the unexplained firing of an employee that used the same word
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook
Amazon launches Amazon Custom Assistant, which will let car makers build their own custom AI assistants with their own wake words, custom voices, and more
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A Parler archive is being converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack: Views from inside the violent protest, created using posts from an app used to plan it
Intel updates its NUC desktop line with 11th-gen processors, adds a gaming-focused model called NUC 11 Enthusiast, and a NUC Pro line that can drive 8K displays
BMW announces Digital Key Plus, a keyless access system that uses the UWB chip in iPhones to let users unlock select BMW cars without taking out their phones
A leak of a near-final version of Windows 10X shows a strong similarity to Chrome OS, with the Start button centered on the taskbar, lack of Live Tiles, more
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Tesla asked to recall 158,000 cars for failing displays
Some moderators say Nextdoor's policies don't adequately address QAnon and aren't well communicated to users; Nextdoor says it classifies QAnon as a hate group
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Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term "Nazis" in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing
GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to stay safe from Nazis
Razer has created a concept N95 mask with RGB and voice projection
WhatsApp clarifies its new data sharing policy, which relates mostly to businesses, following a backlash and recent surge of Telegram and Signal
Yelp lets you tattle on places that don’t enforce masks and social distancing
Spanish gamer David "TheGrefg" Martínez had 2M+ concurrent viewers on Twitch watching him reveal Icon series Fortnite skin, breaking the previous record of 635K
Twitter bans 70,000 QAnon accounts as conservatives report lost followers
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
Qualcomm announces the next generation of its ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor, saying it's 77% larger and 50% faster than the previous gen
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Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet
Reddit · 1 week ago
LG says Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now are coming to its latest TVs in the second half of 2021
Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting
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