Summary List Placement TikTok removed nearly 105 million videos for violating its rules in the first half of 2020, the company’s latest transparency report reveals. The number is double what the app removed in the final six months of 2019, but still accounts for less than one percent of the videos posted on the app […]
Continue ReadingLast weekend, Philippe Reines walked over to Ron Klain’s house in Washington, D.C., to hand off his Donald Trump outfit: the suit, the shoes with the lifts, the shirt, the long red tie, the cufflinks. Just in case. When the former Hillary Clinton aide stored the outfit in a bag after playing Trump in debate […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement Boris Johnson will today urge people to work from home if they can in order to stop a spike in coronavirus infections, just weeks after launching a back to work drive. The UK prime minister will address the House of Commons on Tuesday where he will confirm that the government has scrapped […]
Continue Reading“I like to think I can take a lot of punishment,” Stephen Colbert said on Monday’s Late Show. “But damn — damn! — 2020 is a relentless opponent.” It was already “a dark, dirty road” to Election Day, “but on Friday it got so much worse, because our country said goodbye to a hero, Supreme […]
Continue ReadingDigital events are fairly new and have won in popularity due to the pandemic. As with in-person events, you have good ones and horrible ones. I like to drop the phrase “not all digital events are created equal” into the many conversations I’m nowadays having about digital events. Say, you’ve done the research and you’ve […]
Continue ReadingThere is perhaps no modern speaker more famous among audio enthusiasts than the KEF LS50. Launched back in 2012 to celebrate the venerable audio company’s 50th anniversary, the speaker was quickly met with critical acclaim and enduring popularity. At this point the LS50 is basically a meme, and it’s pretty much impossible to navigate audio […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement Along with paradisical warm waters and golden sand, 10 Pacific Island nations are still completely COVID-19 free due to closed border and geographical isolation, but it has come at a cost. Samoa, Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Vanuatu, Micronesia, and the Solomon Islands, are all COVID-19 free, according to […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Last year, with iOS 13, Apple introduced a new setting that lets an app use your location data only once. With the introduction of iOS 14, the company has […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every morning. Oracle has thrown fresh confusion on its deal to buy part of TikTok after saying that owner ByteDance will have no ownership stake in the new TikTok […]
Continue ReadingNo matter what kind of business you run, a huge part of your business’ success ties back to your customer service strategy; according to a 2017 Microsoft report, more than half of consumers have stopped doing business with a company due to poor customer service. And as industries continue to get more and more competitive, […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement The Los Angeles Police Department has on numerous occasions over the years downplayed its use of facial recognition technology, publicly claimed that the department doesn’t use it at all, and denied the existence of related documents that, if they exist, the public is legally entitled to see. But new records obtained by […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement A former YouTube moderator is suing the company over allegations that it violated California law by failing to provide a safe workplace and protect moderators’ mental health, which she said caused her to develop “severe psychological trauma including depression and symptoms associated with anxiety and PTSD.” In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement As the growth of e-commerce sales continues to outpace brick-and-mortar, having a seamless online checkout process is more crucial than ever. Online checkout has become inundated with payment options and data entry points, which leads to poor e-commerce conversion and frequent cart abandons. In recent months, one proposed solution has garnered support […]
Continue ReadingSummary List Placement Republicans in the Senate appear to have given President Donald Trump the support he would need to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. However, even with this support, there are only 43 days before the November election — and even fewer days when the Senate is in session. Justice Ginsburg […]
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