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Parler, Backed by Mercer Family, Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, TwitterWSJ.COM — As Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have taken a harder line against claims of a stolen presidential election, prominent conservatives on both platforms have responded with rage and a frequent retort: Follow me on Parler. Launched in 2018, the libertarian-leaning social network was the most… |
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Georgia’s secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude legal ballotsWASHINGTONPOST.COM — The atmosphere has grown so contentious, Raffensperger said, that both he and his wife, Tricia, have received death threats in recent days, including a text to him that read, “You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it.””Other than getting you angry, it’s also very… |
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I hate my PS5MASHABLE.COM — It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Ever since PlayStation 5 lead architect Mark Cerny held his “The Road to PS5” virtual developer talk in March, I’ve been waiting to tear open that bulky box on launch day, primally scream to my video game gods, and, well, game with the sort of half-drunk, everything-is-GREAT glee that’s only befitting of console launches and wedding receptions. |
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The best streaming services for every kind of horror fanMASHABLE.COM — Finding fresh horror movies can pose a challenge. Of course, new nightmares come to theaters regularly and plenty of streaming services have sections dedicated to the genre. But horror is as complex and varied as its morbid fanbase. It has a wide range of styles, mixed levels of intensity, and… |
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Many U.S. stores will close forever. That’s a good thingFASTCOMPANY.COM — “We are clearly overretailed in America,” says Byron Carlock, head of PwC’s U.real estate practice. “Suburban sprawl created a situation where we just believed that every time there was a new intersection with four corners we needed to put up four strip centers. We’re learning differently now.” As the pandemic continues to crush most of the retail industry, this oversupply will require some consideration about how much retail space is actually needed and what we should do with all the rest. |
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For the 100th Chaguan column, customers at a chaguan muse on lifeECONOMIST.COM — Nov 14th 2020DECADES SPENT brewing tea in rural Sichuan have left Li Qiang with firm views on what makes for an authentic chaguan, or Chinese teahouse. If age and beauty were the only tests, his shop, the Old Teahouse in Pengzhen, would pass easily. A place to drink tea for more than a century,… |
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Former WeWork China exec launches a ‘startup studio’ for real estateTECHCRUNCH.COM — The real estate industry has been slow to adopt technology compared to many other sectors. So when Dominic Penaloza left his job at WeWork China as the head of innovation and technology this spring, he decided to focus on proptech in Asia. Instead of building a startup himself or investing in one, Penaloza combines both objectives by launching a “startup studio” called REinvent (“RE” short for “real estate”). |
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You’re breathing wrong. Here are 6 ways to fix that.MASHABLE.COM — For years, I’ve been focused on the most basic human activity there is: breathing. After all, watching your breath is the main activity in meditation, something I’m so gung-ho about that I started an annual high-tech meditation contest. Dr. Andrew Weil’s famous relaxation breathing exercise —… |
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Why we binge-watch stuff we hateMASHABLE.COM — Binged, Mashable breaks down why we binge-watch, how we binge-watch, and what it does to us. Because binge-watching is the new normal. Two episodes into Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, I knew I hated it. Then I watched two more episodes —in the same sitting. Somehow, I finished all eight episodes of the Netflix show’s first season in a matter of days. . |
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Sales readiness platform MindTickle raises $100 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2TECHCRUNCH.COM — MindTickle, a startup that is helping hundreds of small and large firms improve their sales through its eponymous sales readiness platform, said on Monday it has raised $100 million in a new financing round. The Pune and San Francisco-headquartered startup’s new financing round was led by Vision Fund The round is a combination of debt and equity, the startup said. |
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What is MeWe? Everything you need to know about the social network competing with Parler.MASHABLE.COM — Now that , the conservative social network that’s currently the number one free app in the App Store, there’s yet another social network popular with Trump supporters that you may want to know about. It’s called MeWe, and it’s currently the number two free app in the App Store. Here’s everything you need to know about the site competing with Parler for conservatives looking for a new online home. |
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Russian hackers are still going after coronavirus vaccine makers, Microsoft warnsMASHABLE.COM — In a Nov. 13 blog post, Microsoft’s vice president of customer security and trust, Tom Burt, details repeated efforts by state-sponsored hacking groups to infiltrate companies around the globe. And unlike the popular conception of hackers targeting customers for profit, the victims this time around are working to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. |
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What is Newsmax? Everything you need to know about the obscure pro-Trump TV network.MASHABLE.COM — With its simple red, white, and blue lower third chyron and utterly innocuous name, Newsmax TV could be a minor news network like any other. Except it’s not. Newsmax TV is an ultra-conservative outlet that’s been operating on the fringe since 1998. But in recent weeks, it’s been catching on. . The typically conservative Fox News has not gotten behind Trump’s lie that there has been voter fraud, and that Biden is therefore not yet the president-elect. |
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The 21 Best Instagram Marketing Tips for 2021 (Cheat Sheet)BLOG.HOOTSUITE.COM — With an advertising audience of more than 1.16 billion people, Instagram offers dramatic reach for brands. And the potential reach of Instagram marketing has grown substantially this year—increasing by 76 million people in just the last quarter. Fully 90% of Instagram users follow at least one… |
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Making the Web Accessible for Everyone with Shir EkerlingJEFFBULLAS.COM — Shir Ekerling is the CEO and co-founder of accessiBe, a platform that makes it easy for people with disabilities to access the web. Over 65,000 websites are using accessiBe and more than 600,000 people are using websites optimized with its AI-powered platform. . Shir is a tech entrepreneur and software engineer with a vast history of establishing and scaling SaaS companies and web agencies as a CEO and CTO. |
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Dating app usage is changing for the better as the pandemic rages onMASHABLE.COM — As coronavirus cases climb in the United States, temperatures are dropping in many areas. This is a “double whammy” of sorts. While it’s difficult to predict anything these days, it’s likely that this winter, Americans will spend much more time at home than usual. . Between September and October, according to data from Adam Blacker, VP of . |
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Facebook argues its own tool showing conservative dominance isn’t ‘fully representative’MASHABLE.COM — That appears to be the argument made late Tuesday by Facebook’s Alex Schultz in a frankly confounding blog post titled “What Do People Actually See on Facebook in the US?” Shultz serves as both Facebook’s vice president of analytics and the social media company’s chief marketing officer, a combination that perhaps helps explain his bizarre insistence that the Facebook-owned CrowdTangle tool, which consistently shows right-wing links dominating the platform, isn’t “fully representative.” CrowdTangle, an analytics tool Facebook makes available to “select Facebook publishing partners,” is designed to help users “[benchmark] the performance of [their] social media accounts vs those of [their] peers.” Using the tool, for example, you can see which public posts had the most interaction during a certain time period. . |
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TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s upTHEVERGE.COM — TikTok has filed a petition in a US Court of Appeals calling for a review of actions by the Trump administration’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFUIS). The reason, according for the company, is that it hasn’t heard from the committee in weeks about an imminent deadline… |
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Postal worker admits fabricating allegations of ballot tampering, officials sayWASHINGTONPOST.COM — But on Sunday, Hopkins, 32, told investigators from the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General that the allegations were not true, and he signed an affidavit recanting his claims, according to the sources who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation…. |
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What Apple’s new in-house silicon chip means for youMASHABLE.COM — Apple may have released four new iPhones this fall, but Tim Cook isn’t done flooding homes with hardware for 2020. There are two new MacBooks and a Mac Mini coming soon, and they all bring something new: the company’s custom-made Apple Silicon M1 chip. From a business perspective, this means Apple can use its own proprietary chips without giving Intel as much of a cut anymore. |
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