Technology

11 Aug

Apple’s iPhone 16 Will Keep Sales Stable Until Bigger Changes Arrive

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Apple’s iPhone 16 will keep sales stable until more innovative models are ready next year. Also: A smaller Mac mini is underway; iOS 18’s Photos app changes course; and why the company is moving to a plastic version of its SE watch. Source link lol

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11 Aug

White Supremacists Turn UK Riots Into Online Recruiting Pitch

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White supremacist groups have seized on riots in the UK as a recruiting opportunity, using the Telegram messaging site to promote conspiracy theories and incite violence in their bid to lure new members.Hard-line organizations previously designated by the UK as domestic terrorists are calling for an overthrow of the British government with posts that say “the revolution has started.” Some extremist Telegram users have openly discussed how to capitalize on anti-immigrant sentiment in the UK to steer Britons to radicalized communities, according to findings from Logically, a UK-based firm that tracks online disinformation. Source link lol

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10 Aug

Turkey to Lift Instagram Ban on Pledge to Work ‘Jointly’

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Turkey will lift its ban on Instagram, saying the social media site has promised to meet government demands on censorship and content.Turkey’s internet regulator halted Instagram access on Aug. 2 without explaining why. It came after a senior aide to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the platform for what he described as “censorship” of posts related to the death of Ismail Haniyeh, political chief of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Source link lol

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10 Aug

Nike Suspends Online Sales In Turkey After Customs Tax Increase

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Nike Inc. suspended online sales in Turkey via its website and mobile app, days after an increase in customs taxes levied by Turkey on online purchases from abroad. “We cannot guarantee our consumers that their orders will arrive smoothly and on time, so we are suspending online orders from Turkey for the time being,” the US sneaker giant said in a statement published on its official Turkish website. Source link lol

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10 Aug

Susan Wojcicki, Internet Pioneer at Google, YouTube, Dies at 56

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Susan Wojcicki, an early Google executive and long-time head of its YouTube video service who shaped how fortunes and fame are created on the internet, has died. She was 56. Wojcicki died after a two-year battle with cancer, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of YouTube parent Alphabet Inc. Source link lol

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10 Aug

YouTube Hate Video Remained Up Even After UK Riot Conviction

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On the evening of August 5, Aaron Johnson arrived at the Britannia Hotel in Stockport, northern England. The 32-year-old man from a nearby area, had come to see what he was calling a “migrant hotel.”’ “This is civil unrest, you know what I’m saying,” he told viewers of his YouTube livestream, which would ultimately number more than 41,000 before it was removed. Source link lol

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10 Aug

Ex-Twitter Chairman Sues Elon Musk’s X for $20 Million in Shares

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Former Twitter Chairman Omid Kordestani sued the social media company, claiming that billionaire owner Elon Musk is refusing to cash out more than $20 million worth of shares he is owed.Kordestani served as the company’s executive chairman from 2015 to 2020 and stayed on the board for two more years, until Musk bought the platform for $44 billion. He said in the complaint that the bulk of his compensation was stock, which he says Musk is refusing to pay out. Source link lol

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09 Aug

Expedia Warns of Soft Demand Even as It Posts an Earnings Beat

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Expedia Group Inc. posted better-than-expected second-quarter results while warning of “softening” travel demand in the current quarter, leading it to adjust its expectations for the rest of the year. Gross bookings across Expedia’s platforms, which include flight reservations, hotel stays, car rentals activities and vacation rentals, increased 6% to $28.8 billion in the three months ended June 30, the company said Thursday in a statementBloomberg Terminal. Wall Street was expecting $28.6 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Source link lol

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09 Aug

Intel Scraps Innovation Expo as Cash-Strapped Company Makes Cuts

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Intel Corp., which is cutting jobs and costs to preserve its shrinking cash pile, postponed an Innovation event that had been scheduled for next month in San Jose, California. The chipmaker plans to focus on other gatherings, such as webinars, hackathons and the Intel AI Summit, in lieu of the Innovation conference, the company said Friday in an emailed statement. Source link lol

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09 Aug

TikTok Shows Less ‘Anti-China’ Content Than Rivals, Study Finds

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Videos condemning or negatively depicting China’s human rights abuses are more difficult to find on TikTok than other rival networks, a new study finds, suggesting that US users may be getting an incomplete picture of the country’s history when searching for key terms or phrases. US TikTok users who search for terms like “Tiananmen,” “Tibet,” and “Uyghur” — words commonly used in Chinese Communist Party propaganda — see less “anti-China” content than those same searches produce on Instagram and YouTube, according to a new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University. Source link lol

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