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The art museums and galleries are opening up again in Italy. That’s great for the museums and galleries, who may have lost revenue during the pandemic. However, as CityLab reported, at least one Italian art museum has installed technology that will gather data from the people who come in to view the art. It bothers me when the physical world
Last September, Google announced that in one year’s time, all apps distributed through the Play Store would have to use Play Billing for in-app purchases, 9to5Google reported. The original target date would have been September 30, 2021, as a deadline for when all apps in the Play Store, including Google’s own, would have to use the Play Billing IAP system.
Emojipedia posted original sample images visualizing how new emojis might look when they come to fruition. The mockups might, or might not, resemble the final versions from each platform vendor. The final list of 2021 - 2022 Emoji will be approved in September 2021. Here are a few new Emoji that I found interesting: Pregnant Man and Pregnant Person are
Facebook posted its First Quarterly Update on the Oversight Board. Part of the update involves sharing their progress on the board’s non-binding recommendations. …The board’s recommendations touch on how we enforce our policies, how we inform users of actions we’ve taken and what they can do about it, and additional transparency reporting… Facebook provided some examples of things it has
The Whitehouse has decided that it wants to be the new Internet Censor and tell Facebook and News organizations what they consider misinformation. They want those organizations to teach their reporters and moderators how to seek this information out and censor it. The Press is already a puppet of this administration, so they will likely follow the instructions of their
Elon Musk went and built himself a new self-propelled drone ship!
Twitter has appointed a resident grievance officer in India days after Twitter lost the liability protections on user-generated content in the South Asian nation over non-compliance with India’s IT rules, TechCrunch reported. Previously, India’s IT Minister made a statement that he has chosen to disregard Section 230 of the Communications Act, which protects social media companies from being held liable