Daily Archives: March 12, 2020

With tech companies wise to many of the tactics that Russia’s now-infamous troll farms used to seed disinformation during the 2016 election, those campaigns are getting creative. According to a pair of reports out from Facebook and Twitter, a disinformation campaign run by individuals with links to Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA) is back and […]

Russian trolls are outsourcing to Africa to stoke US racial ...

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Verizon said Thursday it will boost investment in network infrastructure, increasing its capital guidance by $500 million, to prepare for the rise in telecommuting and online learning amid the coronavirus outbreak. Verizon has not seen any measurable increases in data usage even as some business, schools and other organizations are asking its employees to work […]

Verizon increases network infrastructure investment by $500M

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Brizzly, the name associated with a long-gone Twitter client, and later, a goofy project highlighting our addiction to social media, is coming back. And this time, it’s focused on serving the needs of Twitter power users in search of features Twitter itself has failed to build — like an Edit button and an auto-deletion option […]

New Twitter client Brizzly+ lets you ‘edit’ and auto-delete your ...

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According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could unveil new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor-switch keyboards. MacRumors first noticed the report, TechCrunch obtained the research note as well. Apple has already updated the big MacBook Pro in November. The company slightly increased the size of the display from 15” […]

Apple could announce new MacBook models with scissor-switch keyboards soon

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According to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could unveil new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor-switch keyboards. MacRumors first noticed the report, TechCrunch obtained the research note as well. Apple has already updated the big MacBook Pro in November. The company slightly increased the size of the display from 15” […]

Apple could announce new MacBook models with scissor-switch keyboards soon

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On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced legislation to further restrict the use of the popular viral video app TikTok on government devices. The bill seeks to expand existing federal guidance prohibiting use of TikTok to encompass any U.S. government-issued device. The legislation is the most recent effort by U.S. lawmakers […]

Senate bill seeks to ban Chinese app TikTok from government ...

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