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Twitter has released a 2018 U.S. Midterm Retrospective Review, which can be downloaded and viewed. It was accompanied by a blog post by Carlos Monje Jr., Twitter's Director of Public Policy. The 2018 U.S. midterm elections were the most tweeted-about midterm election in history. More than 99 million tweets were sent from the first primaries in March through Election Day.
Apple has revoked Google's enterprise certificates. According to The Verge, this caused early versions of Google Maps, Hangouts, Gmail and other pre-release beta apps to stop working. It also broke Google's employee-only apps like the Gbus app for transportation and Google's internal cafe app. This comes shortly after Apple revoked Facebook's enterprise certificates. This was done because Facebook was using
TechCrunch released an extremely detailed article about the “Facebook Research” app that is well worth reading. This disturbing app was seeking teenagers (as well as adults aged 35 and younger) and paying users to install a VPN that sucked up all of a user's phone and web activity. Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up
Data Privacy Day is a big joke as those of us in America have no privacy. The only real privacy you may have left today is to turn off all devices in your home. Close the curtains and then maybe you will have a little privacy other than that with the tech we use we have no Privacy and it's
Brookings released a report titled: “Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places”. It focuses on areas of potential occupational change that can affect people and communities in the United States. According to Brookings, “The gravest disruptions from automation in the coming decades will affect men, young workers, and underrepresented groups.” The report states that men, young
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YouTube announced announced some exciting news for cord cutters. As of today, YouTube is in the process of making YouTube TV available nationwide. They have launched this expansion to be available in time for Super Bowl 2019. YouTube TV is rolling out to 95 markets starting today, covering 98 percent of households in the United States. The remainder will follow
Apple announced that the number of merchants that support Apple Pay is expanding. Apple says that seventy-four of the top 100 US merchants now accept Apple Pay. Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee supermarkets in the Midwest, Speedway convenience stores and Jack in the Box are the latest merchants to support Apple Pay, the most popular mobile contactless payment system in the
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Facebook announced that it has removed coordinated inauthentic behavior, this time, coming from Russia. This follows the October 2018 removal of coordinated inauthentic behavior that originated in Iran. Facebook's Nathaniel Gletcher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, wrote: Today we removed 364 Facebook pages and accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior as part of a network that originated in Russia and operated
Microsoft announced that is committed to addressing the problem of a lack of affordable housing in the region of Puget Sound, Washington. Microsoft made that area its home in 1979. But the Puget Sound area's growth has also created new challenges. In recent years, our region hasn't built enough housing for the people who live here. Since 2011, jobs in
The Indemnis Nexus parachute system for the DJI Inspire 2 drone has been validated as compliant with the new international standard for drone parachutes, following a strenuous testing procedure at the New York UAS Test Site in Rome, N.Y., managed by NUAIR. This breakthrough in reliable parachute technology for small drones opens a wide range of new possibilities for professional
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