Blizzard is facing an intense backlash after banning a player over Hong Kong pro-democracy comments, with some fans boycotting its games
Players are boycotting games like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and Hearthstone after a user was punished for supporting pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong during a tournament.
Blizzard bans player from Hearthstone competition for a year and rescinds $10K prize money, after he publicly supported Hong Kong's pro-democracy protestors
gamers, NBA, don't care who — should be boycotted by Americans who cares about our history and freedom. https://www.bloomberg.com/... See also Mediagazer
Twitter says it has unintentionally used some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security purposes for ad targeting
Twitter disclosed Tuesday that it “unintentionally” used some mail address and phone numbers for advertising even though the information was provided for account security.
Kuo: Apple is planning to launch iPhone SE 2 and new iPad Pro models in Q1 2020, and an Apple AR headset in collaboration with third-party brands in Q2 2020
According to a Chinese language Ming-Chi Kuo report, Apple is readying the release of the iPhone SE 2 and new iPad Pro models for the first quarter of next year.
Bipartisan Senate report makes recommendations to prevent Russian election interference in 2020, saying Russia sowed social media discord to help Trump in 2016
GOP-led panel endorses finding that Russia interfered to help Donald Trump — A bipartisan panel of U.S. senators Tuesday called …
Facebook refuses Biden campaign's request to take down a misleading Trump campaign ad, rejected by CNN, reigniting a debate about Facebook and political speech
WASHINGTON — The 30-second video ad released by the Trump campaign last week is grainy, and the narrator's voice is foreboding.
As China exports its domestic standards, the US should treat China's leveraging of market access into self-censorship by US companies as trade violations
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Chinese state media warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police, says Apple's approval of the app made it an “accomplice” in the protests
State media says ‘poisonous’ app made Apple an accomplice in the Hong Kong protests — China's state media has accused Apple …
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies
Even though GitHub leadership and others oppose ICE's child separation policy, an internal email suggests GitHub won't stop ICE from renewing a contract with the tech company.
Sensor Tower: Tencent's Call of Duty: Mobile had 100M downloads in its first week, breaking the prior record of 26M set by PUBG, and is yet to launch in China
(Reuters) - The mobile version of videogame franchise “Call of Duty” racked up 100 million downloads in its first week …
More than 30 civil rights groups sign an open letter asking mayors and city councils to cancel 500+ existing local police partnerships with Amazon's Ring
Ring has more than 500 police partnerships across the US, and a coalition of civil rights groups are calling for local governments to cancel them all.
House Financial Services Committee says Mark Zuckerberg will testify on October 23 as part of a hearing on Libra and more
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, the committee announced Wednesday.
FISA court rules that an FBI foreign surveillance program violated Americans' civil liberties, deeming tens of thousands of searches from 2017-2018 illegal
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that an FBI program intended to target foreign suspects violated Americans' constitutional right …
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to three scientists for their work in developing lithium-ion batteries, which sparked the portable technology revolution
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Survey of 4,272 US adults shows patchy knowledge on tech issues: many answered correctly on cookies and phishing, few knew about 2FA, https, or private browsing
A majority of U.S. adults can answer fewer than half the questions correctly on a digital knowledge quiz, and many struggle with certain cybersecurity and privacy questions
A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning. Tweets: @wired , @hshaban , @ar...
Uber to launch Uber Pet, letting users bring pets on rides without risking cancellation, for a $3-$5 surcharge, in select US cities starting October 16
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D-Link won't patch a remote exploit in four of its routers, saying they are end-of-life, despite some being discontinued in 2018 and still being sold on Amazon
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Sources: Postmates, which planned to go public this year, has recently told advisers that it is delaying its IPO due to market conditions
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Google's Grasshopper, its learn-to-code mobile app for beginners, is now available on the desktop in the form of a web-based app
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Smart fitness company Mirror, maker of a reflective LCD device with two-way audio and video, launches in-home 1:1 personal training at $40 per 30-minute session
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Austin-based SparkCognition, which uses AI to monitor and predict when industrial systems may fail or be hacked, raises $100M Series C at a valuation of $725M
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At Devcon 5, Ethereum's premier conference, Ethereum's creators admit that the original blockchain was never meant to scale and discuss how to get to Eth 2
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk : Tweets: @scupytrooples , @bobsummerwill , @arcblock_io , @bytemaster7 , and @la__cuen Tweets: @scupytrooples : Clickbait Title and an article that completely mischaracterizes ...
Researchers find that hackers have breached Volusion, a Shopify rival, delivering malicious JavaScript code to between 6,500 and 20,000 online stores
up to 6.5k stores impacted (including Sesame Street online store) —hackers altered a JS file hosted on the company's Google Cloud account https://www.zdnet.com/... https://twitter.com/...
UK's NHS launches first clinic to treat gaming addiction in young people aged 13 to 25; referred patients can be treated in person or online via Skype
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Opera 64 desktop browser launches with inbuilt tracking protection using the EasyPrivacy Tracking Protection List, a powerful screenshot tool, and more
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Report on Dapp's across six blockchains, including ETH, EOS, TRON: total transaction volume was $2.03B in Q3, down 40% QoQ, dapp user retention from Q2 was 36%
David Canellis / The Next Web : Tweets: @justinsuntron , @dapp_com , @tron_topia , and @alex_dreyfus Tweets: Justin Sun / @justinsuntron : #TRON has added another 500,000 users on the mainnet in Q3 -...
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 review: nice touch-sensitive bezel and decent battery life, but it requires too many Samsung apps to work and Bixby is annoying
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Facebook says its Workplace platform has 3M paid users, up 1M in the past eight months, and introduces new features, like Portal support and new analytics tools
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YouTube recently started testing a tool called Instant Reserve to let political ad buyers book slots months ahead of time, similar to traditional TV ad buying
and using any tool it can: https://www.wsj.com/... Julie Bykowicz / @bykowicz : “A YouTube ad can ... be made to appear exclusively ahead of videos viewed by people identified as left-leaning voters i...
Norwegian e-paper tablet startup Remarkable raises $15M Series A from Spark Capital
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