Turkey has restored access to Instagram after the social media site agreed to meet the country’s demands around censorship and crime-related content, Bloomberg reports. Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu announced the agreement in a post on X. Instagram was blocked for a little over a week; users in the country abruptly lost access on August 2,… Continue reading Turkey unblocks Instagram after talks to address its concerns about crime and censorship
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What to read this weekend: Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. Hum by Helen Phillips Robots have become a regular fixture of the workforce, and humans are losing their jobs to AI. Climate change is wreaking havoc on the planet. It’s getting harder and harder for the average person to make ends meet. Facial recognition… Continue reading What to read this weekend: Near-future dystopian fiction and a new approach to explaining life’s origin
Former Twitter chairman is suing X for $20 million over pay he says was ‘wrongfully withheld’
Omid Kordestani, who was Twitter’s executive chairman from 2015 to 2020 and served on the board until Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, is suing X over $20 million worth of shares he says the company is refusing to pay. Kordestani filed the lawsuit on Friday with a California superior court. Per the lawsuit, Kordestani… Continue reading Former Twitter chairman is suing X for $20 million over pay he says was ‘wrongfully withheld’
X appears to be suppressing Trump-related searches
If you want to find a specific tweet by Donald Trump, you may have to go through his timeline and look for it yourself. According to Mediaite, X has switched off the ability to search for Trump’s tweets. As the publication explains, you can do a search for specific posts by typing “from:[username without the… Continue reading X appears to be suppressing Trump-related searches
Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died
Susan Wojcicki, who served as YouTube’s CEO for almost a decade until she stepped down last year, has died. She was 56 years old. Her husband Dennis Troper has shared the news on Facebook, revealing that Wojcicki lived two years with non-small cell lung cancer. “Susan was not just my best friend and partner in… Continue reading Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died
Russia and Venezuela have blocked encrypted messaging app Signal
Both Russia and Venezuela have blocked access to the encrypted messaging app Signal, The Verge reports. The Russian news service Interfax broke the news about the block on the Signal app in Russia. Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor restricted the app due to “violations of the requirements of the Russian legislation whose fulfillment is necessary to… Continue reading Russia and Venezuela have blocked encrypted messaging app Signal
Oxford scientists’ new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels
Oxford University scientists may have solved one of the greatest hindrances of expanding access to solar energy. Scientists from the university’s physics department have created an ultra-thin layer of material that can be applied to the exterior of objects with sunlight access in place of bulky silicon-based solar panels. The ultra-thin and flexible film is… Continue reading Oxford scientists’ new light-absorbing material can turn everyday objects into solar panels
Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard
Warner Bros. Discovery has pulled Cartoon Network’s entire website from the web, which means that you can no longer access free episodes and other interactive content. Instead, visitors to CartoonNetwork.com are redirected to the channel’s section on the subscription streaming network Max, Variety reported. The Cartoon Network website offered full, free episodes and clips of… Continue reading Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard
Save $150 on our favorite Ooni pizza oven, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
As we did last Friday and the Friday before that (and shall continue to do until the internet turns itself off), we have rounded up the best deals we spotted this week and put them in one convenient location. These are the tech gadgets we have used, reviewed and recommend that happen to be seeing… Continue reading Save $150 on our favorite Ooni pizza oven, plus the rest of this week’s best tech deals
Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has blocked X in the country for 10 days after claiming that the platform’s owner Elon Musk had incited hatred and “violated” his own social network’s rules. “Shame on Dictator Maduro,” wrote Musk, who claimed that the incumbent president had committed “major election fraud.” Maduro, who also argued that his rivals… Continue reading Nicolás Maduro bans X in Venezuela for 10 days amid Elon Musk dispute