The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The CBP doubled down and said that no, it didn’t make a mistake and the OnePlus Buds did count as counterfeit and the CPB does, in fact, have the legal authority to seize them. Except the CBP didn’t laugh. It smells of retconning , but it might also nevertheless be true that the CPB can do that (seize the buds, I mean. Google released 4.9

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Crystal Watson, a health-policy expert at Johns Hopkins, who co-authored a report in April on contact tracing, told me that these numbers were better than she had expected. New York Attorney General Letitia James launched a probe into the company’s labor practices in April. James Vincent / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Photo by James Vincent / The Verge. Photography by James Vincent / The Verge. Adherents in the UK have spread their messages not just via social media but through local government , celebrity endorsements , and even mainstream news. A bundle of wires being used to repair a roadside telecoms cabinet in central London.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge. The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. James Vincent / The Verge ). Channel 4 News).

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

And if you make certain other email apps, such as Superhuman or Newton (no relation to the author), you can put your app in the App Store even though you don’t let people pay with an in-app purchase. If you make a music app, like Spotify, or a video app, like Netflix, you can force people to sign up on the web and Apple won’t take a cut.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

TikTok felt compelled to design these guided tours amid fears that the app would be used to share data with Chinese authorities or promote Communist Party propaganda to Americans. James Vincent / The Verge ). You can’t prove a negative. It also oversimplifies the impact of social media on society as a whole. Things to do.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

The company has notified federal authorities and the targeted users of the attacks, said Shane Huntley, who runs Google’s in-house counterespionage group, known as the Threat Analysis Group. James Vincent / The Verge ). Also useful for protest photography.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

The policy is part of a package of bipartisan amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, which the Senate is expected to vote on later this week. James Vincent / The Verge ). The House voted to ban federal employees from downloading TikTok on government-issued devices. Jon Porter / The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The researchers picked Boston because of the quality of available data, according to senior author Yamir Moreno, a professor at the institute for biocomputation and physics of complex systems at the University of Zaragoza in Spain. James Vincent / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

DEA requests this authority on a nationwide basis for a period of fourteen days.”. James Vincent / The Verge ). Former Facebook employees published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg , calling his decision to leave President Trump’s aggressive posts on the site unaltered a “betrayal” of company ideals.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

That changes the way the incident is interpreted,” this author writes. It can also send your current location and a copy of that video to an emergency contact, though you’ll need to confirm a few pop-up messages to complete these steps,” James Vincent writes. Nicole Wetsman / The Verge ). Try a Pride-themed Snapchat filter.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Here’s David McLaughlin at Bloomberg: She didn’t disclose those relationships in papers she recently co-authored outlining how the U.S. James Vincent / The Verge ). Both companies are facing antitrust investigations. could bring antitrust cases against Alphabet Inc. ’s s Google and Facebook Inc. Bijan Stephen / The Verge ).

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

James Vincent / The Verge ). ?? But the authorities have set few limits on how that data can be used. The company said the detection will occur only based on metadata—not analysis of the content of messages—so that it doesn’t undermine end-to-end encryption. Andy Greenberg / Wired ). ?? The company said it was an error.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Law enforcement authorities are using a company called Dataminr to help monitor social media related to protests. James Vincent / The Verge ). If you’re relying on French cosmetics, soap and handbags, to get through quarantine, they’re about to become more expensive. Jim Tankersley / New York Times ).

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