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• Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)

  Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Zuck says he’s ready for a fight if Elizabeth Warren is elected

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting his employees ready for what could turn out to be the biggest threat his company's faced yet: a 70-year-old woman from Oklahoma. Of course, democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren isn't just anyone. She's the woman with a plan ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Report: TikTok censored posts about Trump, Christianity, and LGBTQ relationships

  TikTok's 500 million users aren't there to fight about politics, troll their enemies, or shitpost for lolz. They're mostly a community of inclusive, fun-loving content creators who support one another. You can thank the Chinese government's commitment to exporting censorship for that. A ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What reading r/The_Donald every day for a month taught me

  I tried to get 'red pilled' by r/The_Donald and I didn't even get a T-shirt. What I did get though, was a deep enough understanding of the bigots, racists, ableists, homophobes, and other 'forgotten' people huddling in this safe space to develop some empathy for them. I've come ...

  • Tristan Greene

• ICE is on the hunt for a new DevOps company thanks to a software engineer's protest

  Open-source technology company Chef has finally decided having a relationship with the US government isn't worth alienating the developer's community it thrives on. After spending nearly a week defending its decision to continue working with ICE and CBP, CEO Barry Crist today announced ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Tech CEO tells employees he's obligated to accept any government contract regardless of morality

  “I do not believe that it is appropriate, practical, or within our mission to examine specific government projects with the purpose of selecting which U.S. agencies we should or should not do business.” Barry Crist, CEO of Chef, in an email to employees. “And to be clear: ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Peter Thiel's Palantir set to delay IPO under bumbling leadership of CEO Alex Karp

  Bloomberg today reported that Palantir Technologies, a Peter Thiel-founded company that builds mass-surveillance solutions for law enforcement agencies, will delay its highly-anticipated IPO indefinitely. According to the report, CEO Alex Karp needs more time to woo foreign investors. Thiel's ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter's refusal to dox a cow stymies Republican's $250M lawsuit

  US Rep. Devin Nunes can't seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the world, his fellow former members of the Trump transition team keep getting indicted for being bad at crime. And now he can't figure out which one of his cows ...

  • Tristan Greene

• THC cartridges linked to multiple deaths: Here's how to vape loose-leaf instead

  Hundreds of people across at least 25 US states have been afflicted with a mysterious lung illness linked to tainted THC ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Trump-appointed NASA head just declared Pluto a planet again

  NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine – a politician who's probably seen one or two episodes of “Cosmos” – has officially declared ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google plays politics with China as it quietly bans state-sponsored YouTube accounts

  Google yesterday announced it'd banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Twitter announces complete advertising ban on state-run media outlets

  Twitter earlier today announced it's banned more than 900 accounts purported to be linked to a China-sponsored disinformation ...

  • Tristan Greene