Monday, August 31, 2020

Facebook says it will block users in Australia from sharing news if new rules go forward

Facebook is warning its users in Australia that it will stop allowing them to share local and international news on the social network if the country moves forward with new legislation that would force it to pay media outlets for the use of their news content.


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Amazon gets closer to drone delivery with FAA approval

Amazon received a critical certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday, bringing it a step closer to launching drone delivery in the United States.


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Sunday, August 30, 2020

New Chinese rules could complicate a sale of TikTok's US business

Beijing appears to have just thrown a wrench into the possibility that TikTok could be sold to an American buyer to avoid a ban on its business in the United States.


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A pig named Gertrude was the star of the show when Elon Musk debuted a working demo of his latest technology moonshot, a new kind of implantable chip for the brain.


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Major internet outage: Dozens of websites and apps are down

Cloudflare, an internet service that is supposed to keep websites up and running, was down itself Sunday, taking dozens of websites and online services along with it.


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The killer feature that could make the iPhone 12 feel much, much faster

The new iPhone 12 is probably going to have the expected upgrades: a faster processor, the latest iOS software, 5G wireless connectivity and a host of other updates that should make the iPhone 12 the fastest smartphone Apple ever produced.


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Happy birthday, CNN.com!

On August 30, 1995, CNN set up a new website, CNN Interactive. The website, now called CNN.com, served as a major transformation in how CNN delivered news: Instead of one story at a time on TV, CNN delivered hundreds, and then thousands of stories to users on its website.


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Saturday, August 29, 2020

So far, Instagram Reels is mostly a loop of TikTok's greatest hits

As I check my Instagram account's Explore tab one afternoon, a 15-second video featured prominently at the top catches my attention. It's a comedy skit I watched on TikTok three weeks ago from one of my favorite TikTok stars about showing up to a family event and getting bombarded with questions about relationship status and life plans.


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Online school means online tests, along with computerized surveillance

When Amanda Kemper found out that artificial intelligence would help monitor students during her mechanical engineering class's final exam this summer, she was worried.


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