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Twitter has suspended at least five popular anti-Kremlin Twitter accounts on its microblogging social network. The move has angered fans of the accounts and reignited the speculation on censorship on the platform. One such account parodied Russia Presi… Continue reading Twitter Ignites Censorship Debate After Removal Of Parody Putin Account
Jacob Kastrenakes, reporting for The Verge: Google intends to take more control over the Nexus line going forward. During an interview at the Code Conference today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that his company would “be more opinionated about the des… Continue reading Sundar Pichai Says Google Will Be ‘More Opinionated’ About Nexus Design
CoreOS on Wednesday launched Torus, an open source project that provides storage primitives designed for cloud-native apps and can be deployed like a containerized app via Kubernetes. With Torus, startups and enterprises get access to the same kind of … Continue reading CoreOS Launches Torus, a New Open Source Distributed Storage System
Mary Meeker, a former Morgan Stanley internet analyst and now partner at venture-capital fund Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, has delivered her annual report that offers critical stats and trends about how technology is evolving. TechCrunch has highlig… Continue reading Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report: Messaging Apps Could Rival Home Screen
Yahoo has disclosed receipt of three national security letters (FBI requests for data that Yahoo is typically barred from sharing) and published redacted copies of the letters online for anyone to see. The company says that the move “marks the first ti… Continue reading Yahoo Becomes First Company To Disclose FBI National Security Letters
Onstage at the Code Conference, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said that we have to start bringing parts of the industrial economy to space in order to “save Earth.” Bezos also said that we must protect our planet, adding that we don’t want to live … Continue reading We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos
An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are positive signs indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as everybody thought. Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on Bitfinex (the largest USD/bitcoin exchange … Continue reading Bitcoin Price Jumps 21% Over 4 Days, Reaching a 21-Month High
An anonymous reader writes: With most Canadian mobile devices on some form of HSPA+ or LTE network, you don’t hear mention of CDMA that often anymore. And for good reason; carriers like Telus, which still maintain their CDMA network for legacy customer… Continue reading Telus To Shutter CDMA Service On January 31, 2017
In a wide-ranging interview with Ars Technica, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik talked about European Digital Single Market (DSM), an ambitious goal that seeks to make commerce flow as smoothly across the 28-member block as it does in the United State… Continue reading Estonian President Expresses Desire For More Digitally-Integrated Europe
Robson Fletcher, reporting for CBC News: Canada’s status as an “energy superpower” is under threat because the global dominance of fossil fuels could wane faster than previously believed, according to a draft report from a federal government think-tank… Continue reading Canada’s Energy Superpower Status Threatened As World Shifts Off Fossil Fuel