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Here’s a list of all the Twitter features that got taken down

Earlier this year, social media users were less than thrilled when they found out about Twitter’s new story feature “Fleets.”  The new feature, which is an almost identical option to what is available on Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn and other social media platforms, was widely ridiculed and ignored.   Twitter picked up on the negative feedback from its users and decided to take […]

Amazon sued over distributing hazardous and defected products

Amazon has been legally called out for selling hazardous products to consumers that are mostly defected or missing vital features. Due to this reason, Amazon is facing a lawsuit by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).  Through a 3-1 vote, the U.S. regulator voted to file the lawsuit on Tuesday. The lawsuit seeks to force Amazon to recollect the products on the website, and to instantly contact consumers who purchased them about taking back the products and […]

Dogecoin Co-Founder slams Crypto Industry

“Cryptocurrency is a scam and always has been,” are the words used by Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer to describe the burgeoning digital currency ecosystem, as he resurfaced on Twitter after two years of absence. But Palmer didn’t stop there. He described cryptocurrency industry to be “a right-wing, hyper-capitalistic system, serving the protection of powerful cartel […]

Elon Musk Hails Dogecoin While Salvadorans Reject Bitcoin

At this point, the idea of Elon Musk easily playing with the crypto market through social media is reoccurring, as the Tesla Chief strikes once again with another tweet that swung the market in the favor of Dogecoin. Leave it to the “Dogefather” himself to lift the meme-coin from its slump. After witnessing a steady […]

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak backs Right to Repair Movement

Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak voiced his support towards the right to repair movement amid battle over whether users should be able to fix their own devices.   Existing right-to-repair rules in Europe and the U.S. are limited to appliances and vehicles, respectively.   Woznaik’s statement came through a Cameo video, a platform where people can purchase personalized videos from celebrities, in response to a question posed […]

New Instagram update looks to heavily lean into video

Instagram is no longer a square photo-sharing app, the company’s head Adam Mosseri said, as the application is looking to undergo profound changes via two features that have been announced, and another that was leaked. Mosseri highlighted this fact during a video he published on Wednesday on both his personal Instagram and Twitter accounts, noting […]

Oklahoma prison inmates to begin receiving computer tablets

Inmates at an Oklahoma prison began receiving special computer tablets this week, as part of a Department of Corrections plan to provide secure tablets to everyone incarcerated in state prisons. The devices, specially designed by prisons communications company Securus Technologies, will include free content such as prison policies, access to a law library, some books […]

Man and machine: What AI is and what it is not

Intelligence is a hard thing to define. You have street smarts, book smarts, and the ever-present colloquial term emotional intelligence, and of course the dreaded intelligence quotient or IQ. However, we must place a marker somewhere to establish what we are talking about. For the sake of not exceeding a word count of ten thousand […]

How & Why People Engaged With Games During the Pandemic

Since the previous round of research, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated gaming trends already in motion, leading to an expanded gaming audience and through-the-roof engagement. To that end, our data shows that over half of gamers in North America and Western Europe spent more time gaming since the pandemic began. Will that engagement continue after […]

Huawei to roll out its own operating system to smartphones

Huawei is launching its own HarmonyOS mobile operating system on its handsets as it adapts to losing access to Google mobile services two years ago after the U.S. put the Chinese telecommunications company on a trade blacklist. Huawei was expected to announce the launch of HarmonyOS on Wednesday for various devices including smartphones and tablets. […]