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President Biden issued an executive order titled: “Executive Order on Protecting Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries”. It revokes one of Trump’s executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat. That order was never carried out. In September of 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a prohibition on transactions relating to mobile apps WeChat and TikTok. In October of 2020, three
OnePlus are well-known for their successful range of smartphones but what's less well known is that they have a small but growing collection of handy Android apps - Clipt, TagHost and WellPaper - produced by their software development team, OneLab Studio. Starting with Clipt, it's a handy clipboard tool that let's you copy'n'paste between your mobile devices and your PC's
El Salvador has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, CNBC reported. Lawmakers in El Salvador’s Congress voted by a “supermajority” in favor of the Bitcoin Law. It got 62 out of 84 of the legislature’s vote. As you might have expected, the price of bitcoin went up by 5% to $34,239.17 shortly after the results of
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare Google a public utility, “reining in the ways the powerful search engine provides search results to Ohioans.” According to the news release, Ohio is the first state in the country to bring such a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in Delaware County Common Pleas Court. It asserts
Have you ever wondered why you see posts on Instagram in the order that you do? Instagram posted a detailed blog post titled: “Shedding More Light on How Instagram Works”. I found some of the things in their blog post to be interesting. Instagram explained that it doesn’t have one algorithm that oversees what people do and don’t see on
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. According to the Department of Justice, “these funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide.” This is the group that targeted the Colonial Pipeline, causing it to shutdown. As alleged in the
Jeff Bezos is going to risk life and limb and strap himself into a rocket and go on a joyride to space to earn his Astronaut wings. Stepping down as CEO as of July 5th will allow him the opportunity to travel to space with 5 others including his brother. I would suspect his insurance company will likely not insure