Month: July 2021
Twitter Permanently Suspended Eight Accounts That Had Been Promoting Pro-Trump “Audits” Of The 2020 Election
Twitter has permanently suspended eight accounts that spread former president Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election and pushed for partisan “audits” to find evidence to support those falsehoods, the platform’s latest suspensions directed at the audits. Among those suspended was the official Twitter account for the ongoing, Republican-led audit…
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Instagram to make things safe for its young users – Here are the new features The new features rolled by Instagram for kids' safety
Instagram had copped quite a bit of criticism for making youngsters vulnerable on the platform. Perhaps stung by that, the Facebook-owned platform has come up with a slew of new safety settings for its young users. And that include: new accounts becoming private by default for kids under 16, blocking…
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Nintendo is shutting down its Dr. Mario mobile game
Nintendo has announced that Dr. Mario World, a mobile take on the puzzle game series, will go out of service on November 1st, with sales of its in-app “diamond” currency ending today. The game was launched a little over two years ago, and is the first of Nintendo’s mobile games…
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Discord Threads are here to make sense of your online group chats A demonstration of conversation threading in the Discord app
*Update: Discord Threads is now live! Also, Discord reached out to us to update us on its active user base. It is now 150 million, not 140 million as originally stated. The original article is below.* Discord, the popular online chat app, announced on Twitter this afternoon that its highly…
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Read Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick’s letter addressing the harassment allegations
The evening before a proposed employee walkout at Activision Blizzard, one that at least part of the company is now actively encouraging by providing paid time off, company CEO Bobby Kotick has issued a letter to all employees — and investors, and the public — who are watching the company…
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AMD has finally toppled Intel in this key battleground Threadripper Pro
If you’re looking to buy or build a new workstation anytime soon, there’s a high possibility that you may end up choosing a processor from AMD as opposed to Intel according to new sales data from Puget Systems. As reported by Wccftech, the US-based custom PC building company from Auburn,…
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