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Russian tech giant Yandex erases damaged Ukrainian buildings from maps; Iranian regime thrives on Telegram

Russian tech giant Yandex erases damaged Ukrainian buildings from maps; Iranian regime thrives on Telegram

Bits of Ukraine are being erased from the Russian internet. As the war drags on, residential buildings that have crumbled under Russian attacks in Mariupol have begun to disappear from Yandex Maps, in what might be an attempt to hide the scale of destruction. Last August, users noticed that the borders between countries suddenly disappeared. Country names stayed in place, but the lines distinguishing one from the next vanished, as if the question of where… Source link

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War and the app economy, Google’s Messages update, Telegram ‘TV’ – TechCrunch

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. Downloads… Source link

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Google Pressed in Lawsuit to Dump Telegram Just Like Parler

(Bloomberg) — A former U.S. ambassador wants Google to do to Telegram what it did to Parler. Marc Ginsberg sued the Alphabet Inc. unit Monday, asking a California court to require it to remove the Telegram Messenger app from the Google Play Store because it facilitates violence, extremism and anti-Semitism. Telegram, especially in the wake of George Floyd’s killing and the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, has been used to threaten, encourage and coordinate racist violence, claims… Source link

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