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Facebook Bans Creation of New Events Near Federal and State Houses Leading Up to Inauguration

Facebook Bans Creation of New Events Near Federal and State Houses Leading Up to Inauguration

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Facebook Bans Creation of New Events Near Federal and State Houses Leading Up to Inauguration To head off a potential encore of last week’s violent insurrection, Facebook is blocking users from creating new Facebook events in the vicinity of the White House, the U.S. Capitol building, and any state capitol buildings through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. It’s also restricting features for…Read more... Go to Source
Trump Administration Clears Way for Mining Company to Take Over Sacred Indigenous Land

Trump Administration Clears Way for Mining Company to Take Over Sacred Indigenous Land

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Trump Administration Clears Way for Mining Company to Take Over Sacred Indigenous Land After more than 15 years of protest by tribal organizations, local communities, and environmental groups across the country from Arizona to Washington, DC, an extended battle over a valuable parcel of land in central Arizona entered a new phase. On Friday, the Forest Service released the final environmental impact…Read more... Go to Source
Iranian Spying Campaign Sent Holiday Greetings Riddled with Malware

Iranian Spying Campaign Sent Holiday Greetings Riddled with Malware

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Iranian Spying Campaign Sent Holiday Greetings Riddled with Malware What did you ask for over the holidays? Surely not an infestation of foreign spies in your phone or laptop, but that’s the present you would’ve received had you been foolish enough to click on some very dodgy texts and emails swirling around the internet late last year. Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Warehouse Employees in Alabama Will Vote to Unionize

Amazon Warehouse Employees in Alabama Will Vote to Unionize

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Amazon Warehouse Employees in Alabama Will Vote to Unionize Amazon workers might make a breakthrough at a company that’s done everything it can to trample organized labor. Nearly 6,000 employees at a Bessemer, Alabama, fulfillment center will soon be able to vote on whether to unionize; mail-in ballots are to be submitted by March 29, and the National Labor Relations Board…Read more... Go to Source
How Do I Fix Inconsistent Download Speeds on My Home Network?

How Do I Fix Inconsistent Download Speeds on My Home Network?

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How Do I Fix Inconsistent Download Speeds on My Home Network? It’s time to roll up the shirt-sleeves and dive back into my favorite topic: wireless networking. I realize we beat this drum a lot at Lifehacker, but that’s because wifi woes are a pretty regular source of frustration for readers who don’t hesitate to give my Tech 911 inbox an earful.Read more... Go to Source

The World’s Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky

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The World's Blackest Paint and Sparkles Make a Car Look Like the Night Sky By now we’ve all seen the astonishing results of covering an object in black paint that absorbs over 99% of light—it loses all shape, form, and depth. But what happens when you mix those super-black paints with highly-reflective color-shifting sparkles and then paint a car? The result is like staring into the deepest…Read more... Go to Source
The Best Gadgets of CES 2021, and the Weirdest Ones Too

The Best Gadgets of CES 2021, and the Weirdest Ones Too

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The Best Gadgets of CES 2021, and the Weirdest Ones Too The weirdest CES ever staged is now over. But no one will be striking booths in Las Vegas or hustling out of $1,000 a night hotel rooms today with all the cool gadgets they’ve shown off all week. That’s because there wasn’t that much new tech shown off. Much of CES was a rehash of the preceding weeks—and even…Read more... Go to Source
WandaVision Opened With a Stylishly Old-Fashioned Web of Lies and Intrigue

WandaVision Opened With a Stylishly Old-Fashioned Web of Lies and Intrigue

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WandaVision Opened With a Stylishly Old-Fashioned Web of Lies and Intrigue The first of WandaVision’s many secrets is one that the new Disney+ series actually reveals to you in the premiere episode’s first moments. You watch as Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) and her longtime beau, Vision, beeline straight from the altar to their new suburban home in the city of Westview. The Visions’…Read more... Go to Source
Pro-Trump Extremists Got $520,000 in Bitcoin a Month Before Capitol Coup Attempt: Report

Pro-Trump Extremists Got $520,000 in Bitcoin a Month Before Capitol Coup Attempt: Report

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Pro-Trump Extremists Got $520,000 in Bitcoin a Month Before Capitol Coup Attempt: Report At least 22 individuals and groups, most with extremist pro-Trump sympathies, received roughly $520,000 in bitcoin a month before the violent siege on the U.S. Capitol that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report from Yahoo News. And while there’s no evidence that the Dec. 8…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter Refuses to Engage in the Peaceful Transfer of Posting

Twitter Refuses to Engage in the Peaceful Transfer of Posting

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Twitter Refuses to Engage in the Peaceful Transfer of Posting When President Barack Obama left office on January 20, 2017, all followers of the official @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts were transferred to newly elected President Donald Trump. But that’s not happening this year when Joe Biden takes the oath of office on Jan. 20. Instead, Biden will have to start from scratch,…Read more... Go to Source
Twitter CEO on Banning Trump: Online Speech Can Cause Harm Offline

Twitter CEO on Banning Trump: Online Speech Can Cause Harm Offline

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Twitter CEO on Banning Trump: Online Speech Can Cause Harm Offline Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey finally gave this thoughts on Wednesday about the decision to ban President Donald Trump from the platform, explaining that the move wasn’t easy and that he takes no pride in banning anyone. But Dorsey acknowledged there can be real harm from speech that happens online and he believes…Read more... Go to Source
Insurrectionists Reportedly Used Walkie-Talkie App Zello To Storm the Capitol

Insurrectionists Reportedly Used Walkie-Talkie App Zello To Storm the Capitol

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Insurrectionists Reportedly Used Walkie-Talkie App Zello To Storm the Capitol Members of a violent and deadly mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 reportedly communicated with each other through the walkie-talkie app Zello — a company long criticized for its failure to moderate the far-right extremist content it sometimes hosts. Read more... Go to Source
Breaking Down Star Wars: The High Republic—Old Jedi, New Tech, and Fascinating Connections

Breaking Down Star Wars: The High Republic—Old Jedi, New Tech, and Fascinating Connections

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Breaking Down Star Wars: The High Republic—Old Jedi, New Tech, and Fascinating Connections The first wave of Star Wars: The High Republic stories is upon us, painting the broad strokes of what we can expect to see in this era, centuries before the Skywalker saga. After checking in with the new books and comics that hit shelves last week, we’re already getting a picture of some intriguing connections—and a…Read more... Go to Source