Lenovo begins selling OEM Ubuntu PCs to the general public
Zoom in / No, this is not the Pink Panther – this cat-like creature is the pit, mascot and default Ubuntu 20.04 wallpaper, preloaded on...
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Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter reach a deal with big advertisers for common standards on harmful content and to let external auditing of the system from H2 2021 (Financial Times)
Financial times: Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have reached a deal with major advertisers for common standards on harmful content and to allow external auditing of...
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Garmin’s Venu Sq is another Apple Watch lookalike
If you don’t mind the look, you’ll be happy to find the comprehensive fitness tracking features Garmin fans love. They include sleep monitoring, continuous heart...
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The fight over the fight for California’s privacy future
Aurick Lawson / Getty Images When state Senator Bob Hertzberg learned that an ambitious privacy initiative had garnered enough signatures to qualify for the California...
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Some experts fear a new tranche of FCC subsidies, worth $505M, set aside just for Puerto Rico might not help the people most in need of broadband connections (Kyle Daly/Axios)
Kyle Daly / Axios: Some experts worry that a new slice of $ 505 million in FCC subsidies earmarked only for Puerto Rico may not...
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Opera update uses QR codes to sync data between PC and Android browsers
On top of syncing, Opera introduced a new feature called Flow that lets you share links, YouTube videos, photos, and personal notes between mobile and...
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US has topped 200,000 COVID-19 deaths—and many more to come
Zoom in / Carrier Morgan Dean Macmillan attends the body of a COVID-19 victim at a mortuary in Montgomery County, Maryland, on April 17, 2020....
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Dozens of tweets doxxing interfaith couples in India have circulated on Twitter for nearly two months, despite being reported for weeks (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed News)
Pranav / BuzzFeed News: Dozens of tweets about interfaith couples in India have been circulating on Twitter for nearly two months, although they have been...
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Shopify reports ‘rogue’ employees stole some customer data
We’ve seen all kinds of data breaches from outside hackers, and sometimes, as happened with Twitter, it was the violations that occurred when strangers circumvented...
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Porsche boosts battery capacity by 27 percent for 2021 Panamera hybrid
Porchefiles will subtly see the different bumper in this Panamera sedan and recognize it as a 2021 model, fresh from a midlife facelift. Jonathan Gitlin...