It's tempting to believe that brute force always works.After all, wasn't much of the modern tech industry built upon the notion of moving fast and breaking things?Also: Microsoft wants to show you ads in Windows 11's Start menu. Here's how to prevent themWhen it comes to Microsoft and some of its ingrained customer-facing habits, the idea that you can simply force things on your users rarely dies.Yet the company's latest attempts seem, as often happens, to have annoyed the very people Microsoft...
In one sense, the risk calculation is simple: better that students and teachers miss a day or two of school rather than ignore a threat and get killed or injured.On
Meta’s Threads app now has more than 150 million monthly users, an increase of about 20 million new users since February. Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest user numbers during Meta’’s first-quarter earnings call, saying that the app “continues to be on the trajectory that I hope to see.” The update suggests Threads is continuing to grow steadily, though at a slower rate than its initial explosive growth. The app racked up more than 100 million downloads in its first week, but later saw a...
Every Friday, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri speaks to the people. He has made a habit of hosting weekly “ask me anything” sessions on Instagram, in which followers send him questions about the app, its parent company Meta, and his own (extremely public-facing) job. When I started watching these AMA videos years ago, I liked them.…
It looks like TikTok Notes has quietly launched for users in Canada. So check it out if you’re looking for an Instagram alternative.
Fans of video-sharing app TikTok could be left looking for a new platform as Congress voted for a potential ban of the app in the U.S. on Saturday.Lawmakers in both state and federal governments are pushing to get rid of the platform for national security reasons, but what does the ban mean for users?Why Might TikTok Be Banned and When Could It Happen?TikTok is owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance that is considered a potential national security risk to the United States.ByteDance has...
The second generation of IMAX cameras -- which are being built from scratch -- are expected this year with the end goal of making them more user friendly. [Read More]
2020: The Year The System Showed Its Real Face Authored by Paul Rosenberg via FreemansPerspective.com, (Originally published September 28, 2020.) As we grew up, nearly all of us were inundated with stories of our glorious national fathers, our beautiful democracies, and so on. And being young, we for the most part believed them. The system gave us our prosperity, our comfort, our medicine, our sense of importance. Soon enough we learned that the system was also stupid and...
Ahead of its digital release this Thursday, a poster and trailer have arrived online for director Eddie Lengyel’s horror Byte which follows a group of college friends as they discover an app which turns its users into werewolves; check them out here… In a concept generated for today’s Gen Z audience, the film follows a […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: An app turns users into werewolves in Byte...
After months of delays, the US House of Representatives voted on Friday to extend a controversial warrantless wiretap program for two years. Known as Section 702, the program authorizes the US government to collect the communications of foreigners overseas. But this collection also includes reams of communications from US citizens, which are stored for years and can later be warrantlessly accessed by the FBI, which has heavily abused the program. An amendment that would require investigators to...
NEW YORK >> New York’s highest court today overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction, reversing a landmark ruling of the #MeToo era in determining the trial judge improperly allowed women to testify about allegations against the ex-movie mogul that weren’t part of the case.
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