On Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers dug a 28-0 first-quarter hole as their season that started 11-0 crashed and burned in the playoffs courtesy of the Cleveland Browns. On Monday, a Steelers wide receiver hopped on TikTok to trash the team that just ended his season. No, it wasn’t JuJu Smith-Schuster. Chase Claypool picked up the TikTok torch of disrespecting opponents in a live stream with his followers. Except unlike Smith-Schuster’s ritual pregame social media dances, Claypool’s… Source link
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Facebook says it will remove references to ‘stop the steal’ across its platform
TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link
Read More »Facebook, Google and Microsoft freeze PAC contributions in the wake of Capitol siege
Facebook is reportedly reassessing its political spending practices after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Andrew Hoyle/CNET … Source link
Read More »YouTube Competitor Rumble Hits Google With Antitrust Allegations
Rumble Inc., a streaming video site increasingly favored by users who think conservatives are censored online, sued Google in federal court in California Monday, claiming the tech giant unlawfully tilts search engine results toward its sister company YouTube. “By unfairly rigging its search algorithms,” Google has been “able to wrongfully divert massive traffic to YouTube, depriving Rumble of the additional traffic, users, uploads, brand awareness and revenue it would have otherwise… Source link
Read More »WhatsApp group links were visible on Google: Report
NEW DELHI: At least 1,700 private WhatsApp group links were visible on Google through a simple web search, according to a recent research. Published by internet security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, the research claimed that the groups’ links available on the web posed a threat to WhatsApp users’ privacy. Rajaharia had shared screenshots of the WhatsApp group links on his Twitter profile on Sunday afternoon. “Anyone who had access to these links could join these private groups, see… Source link
Read More »TCL will launch its first television with Google TV this year
TCL will have televisions that run on the Google TV platform later this year. screenshot/Google This story is part of CES, where our… Source link
Read More »Rep. Tom Malinowski joins Yahoo News’ ‘Skullduggery’ podcast
ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Will changes come for the Chicago Bears? When asked about conversations regarding his future after Sunday’s playoff loss to the Saints, Bears coach Matt Nagy said, “That’ll be down the road.” It won’t be that far down the road, if the Bears are contemplating making major changes. As a 5-1 start melted into a six-game losing streak, questions emerged about the fate [more] Source link
Read More »3 tech stocks that are on fire in 2021 (hint: apple isn’t one)
TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks with Over 9% Dividend Yield Markets ended 2020 on a high note, and have started 2021 on a bullish trajectory. All three major indexes have recently surged to all-time highs as investors seemingly looked beyond the pandemic and hoped for signs of a rapid recovery. Veteran strategist Edward Yardeni sees the economic recovery bringing its own slowdown with it. As the COVID vaccination program allows for further economic opening, with more people getting back to… Source link
Read More »Google pauses federal campaign contributions after U.S. Capitol siege
FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will pause all campaign donations from its political action committee, a spokesman said, in the wake of the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol and efforts to block the certification of election results “We have frozen all NetPAC political contributions while we review and reassess its policies… Source link
Read More »Amazon joins Apple, Google in giving far right-friendly Parler the boot
Amazon booted Parler, a social media platform popular with President Donald Trump’s supporters, off its web-hosting service over night after Apple and Google removed it from their app stores. Parler could be offline for a week due to Amazon’s action, Parler CEO John Matze said. That prediction may be optimistic since the platform will need to be rebuilt from scratch, The Associated Press reports. On Friday, Google yanked it from its app store for allowing postings that seek “to incite… Source link
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