Tag: Tech
Worldcoin Promised Free Crypto If They Scanned Their Eyeballs With “The Orb.” Now They Feel Robbed.
Blania described a futuristic world awash in Orbs of varying shapes and sizes, where each person would be assigned a unique and anonymized code linked to their iris that they could use to log in to a host of web and blockchain-based applications. Blania did not rule out the possibility…
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Elon Musk Bought 9.2% Of Twitter And Now Is On Its Board
However, Musk’s new role does not necessarily mean he can determine any policies for content or new features. “Twitter is committed to impartiality in the development and enforcement of its policies and rules. Our policy decisions are not determined by the Board or shareholders,” Twitter spokesperson Adrian Zamora said. “As…
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TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Made Fake Accounts With Content Scraped From Instagram And Snapchat, Former Employees Say
In 2017, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, scraped short-form videos, usernames, profile pictures, and profile descriptions from Instagram, Snapchat, and other sources and then uploaded them — without users’ knowledge or consent — to Flipagram, a TikTok predecessor, according to four former employees of the company. BuzzFeed News spoke with the…
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Some Etsy Sellers Are Planning A Boycott Over Fee Hikes
Cassidy described Etsy’s latest fee increase — which would cost her around $100 a month during peak sales periods — as “the final straw.” “I’ve been really upset at every recent platform change,” she said. One frustration was the introduction in spring 2020 of an advertising program that Cassidy can’t…
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You Babies Wanted A Chronological Instagram Feed. Now You’re Getting It
Here’s the thing, you bibbed-up mushed-pea-munchers: You’re going to hate it. I guarantee you that you will come crawling back to the algorithm (well, technically you have to — every time you reopen the app it will default back to the main ranked feed). Just like actual babies, you lack…
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Russia Bans Facebook And Instagram After Labeling Meta An “Extremist Organization”
A Russian court has banned the use of Facebook and Instagram after labeling the apps’ parent company Meta an “extremist organization,” according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. The move came after Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office appealed to the Moscow court for Meta to be designated an “extremist organization”…
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