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Second federal judge rules against Trump administration’s TikTok ban
Another federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against U.S. government restrictions that would have effectively banned TikTok from operating in the United States. The ruling (embedded below) was made by U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols in a lawsuit filed by TikTok and ByteDance against President Donald Trump, Secretary…
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Google Stadia will let all users livestream games directly to YouTube tomorrow
From the very beginning, Google Stadia and YouTube were supposed to work together — thanks to the magic of cloud computing, you’d be able to click a YouTube ad to instantly begin playing a game, YouTubers would be able to invite their viewers to instantly join their game, and —…
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Netflix bids Death to 2020 in star-studded special from the makers of Black Mirror Death to 2020
We can all agree that 2020 has been a garbage year that most would like to forget. With that sentiment in mind, Netflix is bidding farewell to this awful year with the upcoming ‘Death to 2020’, a comedy special from the makers of Black Mirror. “Even the creators of Black…
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XPrize launches a $15 million contest to develop alternative meats
Just one week after Singapore became the first country in the world to approve the sale of lab-grown meat, XPrize has announced a new competition to foster the development of technologies that will transform the global food industry. In partnership w… Source
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Second judge says Trump can’t ban TikTok
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction that should keep the US Commerce Department from banning transactions with TikTok. The Trump administration issued an executive order on August 6th that would have blocked transactions between US companies and TikTok and WeChat’s Chinese parent companies, ByteDance and Tencent. Trump declared…
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With guns drawn, police raid home and seize computers of COVID-19 data whistleblower
Eight months ago, Deborah Birx of the White House Coronavirus Task Force praised Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard as an example of “the kind of knowledge and power we need to put into the hands of the American people.” That dashboard was built by Rebekah Jones. But in May, Jones was fired…
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