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ENCRYPTED MESSAGING APP SIGNAL BLOCKED IN CHINA
Encrypted messaging app Signal appears to have been blocked in mainland China, the latest foreign social media service to cease working in a country where the government tightly controls the flow of information.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
CHINA SUMMONS TECHNOLOGY FIRMS OVER VOICE SOFTWARE SECURITY
Chinese authorities summoned 11 companies including Alibaba and Tencent for talks regarding the security of voice software, as Beijing steps up scrutiny over the internet sector.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
ANXIETY, CONFUSION, TERROR, RELIEF: GIVING BIRTH IN PANDEMIC
Pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn in the middle of a pandemic has brought on high anxiety, ever-shifting hospital protocols and intense isolation for many of the millions of women who have done it around the world.
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Techlife News #490
Techlife News
CALIFORNIA COULD GET $150B FROM FEDERAL VIRUS RELIEF BILL
In January, state lawmakers agreed to use $2.6 billion in prior federal relief funding to pay off up to 80% of some tenant's unpaid rent. Ting said he’d like the state to also help pay off-unpaid commercial rents to prevent small business evictions.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
COUPANG, THE AMAZON OF SOUTH KOREA, DEBUTS ON NYSE
The biggest IPO in years is rolling out Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange where Coupang, the South Korean equivalent of Amazon in the U.S., or Alibaba in China, will begin trading under the ticker “CPNG.”
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
SECURITY CAMERA HACK EXPOSES HOSPITALS, WORKPLACES, SCHOOLS
Hackers aiming to call attention to the dangers of mass surveillance say they were able to peer into hospitals, schools, factories, jails and corporate offices after they broke into the systems of a security-camera startup.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
A HOMEBOUND YEAR HAS MEANT RETHINKING OUR ROOMS, BELONGINGS
In normal times, new trends in home design and home decorating bubble up simply because it’s time for something different.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
GOP PUSHES BILLS TO ALLOW SOCIAL MEDIA ‘CENSORSHIP' LAWSUITS
Republican state lawmakers are pushing for social media giants to face costly lawsuits for policing content on their websites, taking aim at a federal law that prevents internet companies from being sued for removing posts.
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Techlife News
HOMEBOUND CHILDREN DRIVE SURGE IN LEGO SALES
Sales of Lego sets surged last year as more children stayed home during global pandemic lockdowns - and parents bought the colorful plastic brick toys to keep them entertained through days of isolation.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
DEPARTMENT SAYS DETECTIVES USED FACIAL RECOGNITION PROGRAM
Virginia Beach police admitted last week that some of their detectives used a controversial facial recognition program during criminal investigations, according to a report.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
FIRE AT FRENCH CLOUD COMPUTING FIRM DISRUPTS WEBSITES
Numerous companies and websites in France suffered outages and disruptions to services after a fire swept through a cloud computing provider’s facility.
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Techlife News #489
Techlife News
APPLE TV+ TO PRODUCE MASTERS OF THE AIR, THE SECOND BAND OF BROTHERS SEQUEL
As far as the cast is concerned, we only have two names as of March 2020. One is Austin Butler, who is going to play Major Gale Cleven, and the other is Callum Turner, who is going to play Major John Egan. As for Austin Butler, he has appeared in numerous American shows as a guest actor and has recently done work on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, where he played the role of Tex.
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Techlife News
TEXAS AG SAYS PROBE TO CONTINUE DESPITE TWITTER LAWSUIT
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that a lawsuit by Twitter won’t deter his office from investigating the content moderation practices of the social media giant and four other major technology companies.
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Techlife News
Grammy Awards Shift To March Due To Pandemic Conditions
The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths.
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Techlife News
BIDEN FACES STEEP CHALLENGES TO REACH RENEWABLE ENERGY GOALS
President Joe Biden wants to change the way the U.S. uses energy by expanding renewables, but he will need to navigate a host of challenges — including the coronavirus pandemic and restoring hundreds of thousands of lost jobs — to get it done.
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Techlife News #488
Techlife News
WILL PARAMOUNT+ BE A MOUNTAIN OR A MOLEHILL IN STREAMING?
Paramount+ debuts Thursday as the latest — and last — streaming option from a major media company, this time from ViacomCBS. It’s betting that consumers are willing to add yet another paid streaming service in an increasingly crowded field.
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Techlife News #488
Techlife News
COUNTRIES URGE DRUG COMPANIES TO SHARE VACCINE KNOW-HOW
In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity.
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Techlife News #488
Techlife News
GOOGLE ENDS SALE OF ADS USING INDIVIDUAL WEB TRACKING DATA
Google says it won’t develop new ways to follow individual users across the internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from its Chrome browser, a change that could shake up the online advertising industry.
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Techlife News
US JOBLESS CLAIMS TICK UP TO 745,000 AS LAYOFFS REMAIN HIGH
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits edged higher last week to 745,000, a sign that many employers continue to cut jobs despite a drop in confirmed viral infections and evidence that the overall economy is improving.
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Techlife News #488
Techlife News
IN ‘THE FATHER,' THE DISORIENTATION OF DEMENTIA
In Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Anthony, 80, in the grip of dementia, is a captain ready to go down with the ship. Overhearing his daughter and son-in-law contemplating a nursing home, he curses them as “rats” abandoning him. Pacing his London apartment in a bathrobe, he mounts a noble resistance.
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Techlife News #488
Techlife News
STEPHEN KING AND J.J. ABRAMS WORK ON LISEY'S STORY FOR APPLE TV+
When you combine the creative genius of probably the best horror writer of the modern area and one of the best and most respected producers of our era, you are probably going to get a product that is going to be a masterpiece in its own right.
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Techlife News
MICROSOFT: CHINA-BASED HACKERS FOUND BUG TO TARGET US FIRMS
China-based government hackers have exploited a bug in Microsoft’s email server software to target U.S. organizations, the company said this week.
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Techlife News
BILLIE EILISH, UNFILTERED, IN NEW DOCUMENTARY
If you’re coming to “ Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry ” hoping for a primer on the music sensation, you’ve come to the wrong place. Filmmaker R.J. Cutler’s two hour and 20-minute documentary about the “Ocean Eyes” singer and songwriter is not biography or reportage. It’s a verite-style plunge into her life, her home, her concerts, her process, her Tourette’s, her brother’s bedroom where they famously write all their songs and even her diary in the year in which she became a star.
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Techlife News
AMAZON OPENS FIRST UK CHECKOUT-FREE GROCERY STORE IN LONDON
Amazon has opened a cashier-free supermarket in London, its first bricks and mortar expansion outside the U.S. as the company bets on strong demand for its contactless shops.
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Techlife News #488
Techlife News
USPS SELECTS OSHKOSH DEFENSE TO BUILD GREENER MAIL TRUCK
The United States Post Office said that it has chosen Oshkosh Defense to build its next-generation mail-delivery vehicle, part of an effort to make the USPS more environmentally friendly by switching a portion of its huge fleet to electric vehicles.
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Techlife News #487
Techlife News
NEW OR USED? EITHER WAY, PRICE HIKES SQUEEZE US AUTO BUYERS
The viral pandemic has triggered a cascade of price hikes throughout America’s auto industry — a surge that has made both new and used vehicles unaffordable for many.
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Techlife News #487
Techlife News
MARS ROVER'S GIANT PARACHUTE CARRIED SECRET MESSAGE
The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team.
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Techlife News #487
Techlife News
IN YEAR OF PANDEMIC, HOME DEPOT BECAME SUPPLIER TO MILLIONS
The housing market was among the very few bright spots for the U.S. economy in the year of the lockdown and Home Depot became its supplier, racking up an unprecedented $132 billion in sales for 2020.
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Techlife News
GOODELL: NFL LEARNINGS FROM 2020 TECHNOLOGY HERE TO STAY
One of the major benefits of playing a full season pretty much on schedule during a pandemic is what the NFL learned technologically from 2020.
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Techlife News
FUNKY ELECTRONICS CHAIN FRY'S IS NO MORE
Fry’s Electronics, the go-to chain for tech tinkerers looking for an obscure part, is closing for good.
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