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For 2021 Pantone has announced two Colors of the Year, Illuminating and Ultimate Gray. Officially Pantone 13-0647 and 17-5104, Illuminating is a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity, a warming yellow shade imbued with solar power. Ultimate Gray is emblematic of solid and dependable elements which are everlasting and provide a firm foundation. The colors of pebbles on the
Squad, a screen-sharing social app, announced that is has been acquired by Twitter. As part of the acquisition, Squad will shut down the Squad app on December 12, 2020. Esther Crawford, CEO of Squad, posted about this on Medium: I'm excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Squad! The team will be joining Twitter to broaden the spectrum of conversations
The FCC today mandated massive bans of telecommunications company equipment that have any type of federal subsidy or payment. These requires companies to remove the Chinese equipment for National Security Reasons. It is way overdue in my opinion that these actions have been taken. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Join the Chat @ GeekNews.Chat Email Todd or follow him on Facebook.
Germany's Bundeskartellmt (which TechCrunch translates as Germany's Federal Cartel Office), has initiated abuse proceedings against Facebook to examine the linkage between Oculus virtual reality products and the social network and Facebook platform. Andreas Mundt, President of the Bundeskartllmt wrote: “In the future, the use of the new Oculus glasses requires the user to also have a Facebook account. Linking virtual
9To5Mac reported that Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in 2021. This is exciting news for people like me who enjoy playing video games on iPhone or iPad. It sounds like we will get access to games that were previously not available on iOS. Microsoft is expanding cloud gaming with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate coming
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has sued Facebook. The FTC alleges that Facebook is illegally maintaining its personal social network monopoly through a years-long course of anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuit comes after a lengthy investigation in cooperation with a coalition of attorneys general of 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam. The FTC is seeking a
In a lengthy blog post, YouTube announced updates to their work supporting the integrity of the 2020 U.S. election. This includes removing content that violates their policies. In addition to things that YouTube was already removing, the company will now remove content that alleges widespread election fraud. Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough
Uber Technologies Inc. sold its self-driving-car unit to a Silicon Valley competitor, Aurora Innovation Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported. This appears to be an attempt by Uber to deliver on a promise to his shareholders to become profitable. The two companies on Monday said that as part of the deal for the self-driving-car unit, known as Advanced Technologies Group,
SpaceX will get 866 million over the next 10 years from the US Government as part of its rural broadband initiatives to bring broadband to rural America. In other SpaceX news we will see a potential test launch of it's big spacecraft. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Join the Chat @ GeekNews.Chat Email Todd or follow him on Facebook. Like and
Google finds a major Wifi security vulnerability. It was a major one and took the security researcher a full 6 months to develop it. Back in the swing here after pretty rough week with major back pain. Glad to be back in the swing of things. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Join the Chat @ GeekNews.Chat Email Todd or follow him
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