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Monday, January 18, 2021

GitHub head of HR resigns after investigation into firing of Jewish employee over Capitol riot comments

Microsoft-owned GitHub said on Sunday that the company's head of human resources resigned after an investigation into the company's dismissal of an employee.

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Huawei to open its biggest flagship store outside China in Riyadh

Chinese technology firm Huawei plans to establish a flagship store in Riyadh, the largest such store outside China, the Saudi government said on Friday.

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Sunday, January 17, 2021

YouTube stands alone as other social media providers race to deplatform Trump

YouTube has taken less aggressive action against the President's social media presence.

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How to use your iPhone to get in shape and stay healthy

You can track more than just your steps with your iPhone, including headphone audio levels, your menstruation cycle, mindful minutes and more.

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How Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is luring tech players from Silicon Valley and New York

Suarez's schedule and phone have blown up since he accidentally launched a Twitter campaign to make Miami the latest innovation hub in early December.

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Signal Back Up: Users May See Some Errors, Company Says Will Be Fixed in Next Update

Signal said it had restored its services a day after the application faced technical difficulties as it dealt with a flood of new users after rival messaging app WhatsApp announced a controversial change in privacy terms.

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WhatsApp Delays New Privacy Policy, But It's Still Sharing Data With Facebook

WhatsApp has been sharing metadata with Facebook for many years now, so it's new policy wouldn't have changed much for users. But that doesn't mean that people should not be concerned about their privacy.

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WhatsApp puts 'privacy' as Status to reach out to users

WhatsApp seems to be going all out to reach users and clear what it terms as 'confusion' about its new privacy policy. Just a day after the company announced that it is moving back the date on which people will be asked to review and accept the new policy terms, it has put its 'privacy principles' as a status message. The aim is clear: To highlight that nothing is changing for individual users and their chats will continue to be as secure as earlier.

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How to Do Mobile Recharge via Google Pay

Here’s an easy guide on how to do mobile recharge via Google Pay. Before beginning the steps, if you’ve never used Google Pay, you will have to download it via the Google Play Store. It’s a free download and registering on the app is an easy process as well. It asks for your mobile number and verifies it via an OTP to register. Prepaid customers of Reliance Jio,...

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Delhi Police has a ‘warning’ for you before making that complaint on Facebook, Twitter

Posting your complaints on platforms like Twitter can attract fraudsters. Scammers may impersonate as customer care executives to obtain personal details. This can not only result in loss of information like mobile numbers and email addresses, one can also lose money to these cyber frauds.

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Intel CEO calls Apple a lifestyle company

Apple has been called many things by rival companies in the past. But a lifestyle company? Well, that’s a first and it can be attributed to Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger. Gelsinger, who is set to take over the company’s top role in February, held an all-hands company meeting.

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How to hide seen on Telegram

Just like WhatsApp, Telegram also allows its users to hide their last seen. So, if you have started using Telegram then here is a simple how to which explains how you can hide the last seen.

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Italian data authority takes aim at Whatsapp's privacy disclaimer

Facebook Inc-owned messenger WhatsApp did not clearly communicate to users changes to its privacy policy, potentially making it difficult for people to decide whether to drop the service, Italy's data protection authority said.

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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Parler's de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers like Amazon

Parler survived being pushed out of Apple and Google's app stores, but getting kicked off Amazon's cloud has made Parler absent from the internet for days.

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