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Charlie Bell, 23-Year Veteran, Leaving AWS

AWS is making changes to its executive roster as Charlie Bell, a long-time company veteran, departs. Amazon has been in a state of transition following company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos stepping down in July, on the company’s 27th anniversary. Andy Jassy, the former head of AWS,...
Posted On 13 Aug 2021
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Major Websites Flooded With Hardcore Porn

Major websites, including The Washington Post, New York Magazine and the Huffington Posthave been flooded with hardcore porn. Readers of many major websites and news sources received an eyeful, starting Thursday, when hardcore porn started showing up, embedded in otherwise...
Posted On 24 Jul 2021
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DOJ and DHS Launch Website to Help Ransomware Victims

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have launched StopRansomware.gov as a one-stop cybersecurity resource. Ransomware has become one of the leading cybersecurity threats, impacting businesses, organizations and agencies of all sizes. The...
Posted On 17 Jul 2021
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Twitter Working On ‘Most Popular Tweets’ Search Project

Twitter’s search team is working on a project to uncover the most popular tweets for any search query, but it’s unclear when or where the project might be implemented. Taylor Singletary, a Developer Advocate at Twitter, announced and described the project today in a post on the...
Posted On 06 Jul 2021
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Venmo to Allow Business Transaction on Personal Accounts

Venmo is making a major change to its terms of service, allowing business transactions on personal accounts for the first time. Venmo is a popular digital payment app that is owned by PayPal. Until now, the company did not allow business transactions on a personal account....
Posted On 28 Jun 2021
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D.C. AG Launches Antitrust Suit Against Amazon

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon for anticompetitive practices and price-fixing. Amazon has increasingly been under fire on all fronts. The company has repeatedly been criticized for how it treats employees, as well as...
Posted On 08 Jun 2021
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Sony PlayStation and Discord Announce Partnership

Sony PlayStation has announced a partnership with Discord, to integrate Discord with PlayStation’s social experience. Discord is a popular platform for gamers to communicate and message each other. The company was recently in talks with Microsoft, with the latter looking to...
Posted On 31 May 2021
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Ericsson Debuts Indoor 5G Antennas for mmWave and Mid-Band

Ericsson has announced indoor 5G antennas, for both mmWave and mid-band 5G. As carriers roll out 5G service, indoor reception continues to be an issue, especially for the high-band mmWave variety. mmWave is the fastest flavor of 5G, but it suffers from extremely limited range and...
Posted On 12 May 2021
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Toyota Acquiring Lyft’s Self-Driving Division

Lyft has announced Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet is acquiring its self-driving division, Level 5. Autonomous driving is widely considered to be the next major evolution of the auto industry. Unfortunately, autonomous driving has been a difficult technology to crack for companies...
Posted On 01 May 2021
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Apple ‘Spring Loaded’ Event: Apple Card, Podcasts, iPhone, AirTag and Apple TV

Apple unveiled its “Spring Loaded” event, unveiling the much-anticipated AirTags, as well as changes to Apple Card, Podcasts and the Apple TV. Tim Cook kicked off the latest event touting the company’s environmental progress, with the goal of being carbon neutral from end-to-end,...
Posted On 22 Apr 2021
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