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Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases, requested authors to refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work, Reuters reported. Google’s new review procedure asks that researchers consult with
Substack is a writing website that enables writers to publish to email and the web from one place. Each writer can make a newsletter which readers will pay for if they wish to read the writer's work. Substack has a blog post in which it described its view of content moderation. Personally, I'm not entirely convinced that it will work
As you may recall, when President Obama left office in 2017, Twitter transferred the @POTUS account to President Trump. According to Business Insider, the change enabled President Trump to inherit almost 14 million followers who originally followed the @POTUS account when it belonged to President Obama. That's not going to happen when President-elect Joe Biden becomes President. Rob Flaherty, Digital
DJI has made it on the United States Entity list for human rights violations. This is a big blow to DJI and could really impact their ability to sell products in the United States. This is the same list the Huawei and others are on. Time will tell how this all pans out. I want to wish everyone a Happy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has shared its opinion about Facebook's full-page newspaper ad campaign against Apple's AppTrackingTransparency feature on iPhones. The EFF described Facebook's campaign as “laughable”. Facebook claimed that Apple's new AppTrackingTransparancy for iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 “will hurt small businesses who benefit from access to targeted advertising services.” EFF points out that Facebook is
Apple has temporarily closed nearly one-fifth of its stores due to new COVID-19 restrictions, 9To5Mac reported. This is not the first time that Apple closed stores that were located in areas where there were spikes of COVID-19 cases. 95 Apple Stores across the globe have re-closed since Monday, December 14, 2020. Apple announced closures of all its stores in California