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2020

Xbox Series X Launches This November

Microsoft announced that Xbox Series X will launch in November of this year. No specific date was given, but its more information than we had before. In December of 2019, all we knew was it would available “holiday 2020”. That's the good news. The bad news, for Halo fans, is that the release of Halo Infinite has been shifted to

You Can Now Limit Who Can Respond To Your Tweets

Twitter has now made it possible for you to decide who can respond to your tweets. Twitter states that these new settings help some people feel safer and could lead to more meaningful conversations. It appears that the new settings reduce harassment on the platform. Here's how it works. Before you Tweet, choose who can reply with three options: 1)

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QAnon to be targeted by Facebook

QAnon to be targeted by Facebook they are going to be going after the groups with yet to be undetermined actions. I suspect they will be removing groups and banning users for what they perceive to be false information and crazy conspiracies. With plans to treat them as they do today to anti-vaccinators. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Join the Chat

Qualcomm Wants Permission to Sell Chips to Huawei

The Wall Street Journal reported that Qualcomm Inc. is lobbying the Trump Administration to roll back restrictions on the sale of advanced components to Huawei Technologies. Qualcomm wants to sell chips for Huawei 5G phones. Qualcomm is telling U.S. policy makers their export ban won't stop Huawei from obtaining necessary components and just risks handing billions of dollars of Huawei

Apple has Taken Legal Action Against Prepear

Apple is taking legal action against the developers of the Prepear app, because Apple thinks Prepear's logo is too close to its own, iPhone in Canada reported. Apple is a gigantic company, with plenty of money spend on court battles. Prepear is a small company with five employees. Prepear is a meal planning and grocery list app – which you

Huawei is Running Out of Smartphone Chips

Huawei Technologies Inc. is running out of smartphone chips. This was announced by the company at the 2020 Summit of the China Information Technology Association during a speech by Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei's consumer business. Engadget reported that after September 15, 2020, Huawei won't have access to the manufacturing it needs to continue making the Mate 40's Kirin

Facebook Relaxed the Rules for Conservative Accounts

Facebook has allowed some conservative news outlets and personalities to repeatedly spread false information without facing any of the penalties that doing so would typically result in, NBC News reported. NBC News received this information from leaked materials, which they reviewed. According to internal discussions from the last six months, Facebook has relaxed its rules so that conservative pages, including