Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Academic researchers blast Twitter's data paywall as 'outrageously expensive'

After Twitter announced in February it would begin charging third parties to access its platform data, academic researchers warned that the vaguely worded plan could threaten important studies about how misinformation, harassment and other malicious activity spreads online.

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Tech executive Bob Lee dead after apparent stabbing attack in San Francisco

Tech executive Bob Lee, the former chief technology officer of Square who helped launch Cash App, has died after being fatally stabbed in San Francisco, authorities confirmed to CNN Wednesday morning.

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How your phone learned to see in the dark

Open up Instagram at any given moment and it probably won't take long to find crisp pictures of the night sky, a skyline after dark or a dimly lit restaurant. While shots like these used to require advanced cameras, they're now often possible from the phone you already carry around in your pocket.

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Amazon axes bookseller Book Depository as it cuts costs

Amazon plans to shut down global online book store Book Depository after almost two decades.

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Amazon, Microsoft could face UK antitrust probe over cloud services

Britain's media and communications regulator Ofcom says it has "significant concerns" that Amazon and Microsoft could be harming competition in UK cloud services.

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This Is How Prosecutors Say Donald Trump Committed 34 Felonies

Former president Donald Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen allegedly made the illegal payoffs as part of a deal to "catch and kill" negative tabloid stories.


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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

First on CNN: A new group of Twitter vendors is suing the company for alleged unpaid bills

A group of Twitter vendors on Tuesday filed a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the company has failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in overdue bills.

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Apple's Weather app briefly went down and rained on everyone's morning

Anyone using their iPhone to check the weather on Tuesday may have had better luck just looking out the window.

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Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts

Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company's London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs.

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NASA announced the four astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades, queuing up the quartet to begin training for the historic Artemis II lunar flyby that is set to take off in November 2024. CNN Senior National Correspondent Ed Lavandera has more.

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