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Alex Jones’ Infowars removed from LinkedIn and MailChimp, still up on Instagram and Twitter

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is quickly disappearing from the internet, though some accesses to his site Infowars is still available on the web. After we inquired this afternoon about the Infowars company page, LinkedIn responded that it has removed the page from its platform. “We have removed the InfoWars company page for violating our terms of service. We value the …

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Logitech’s Powered wireless charger acts as iPhone stand

Logitech’s new Powered Wireless Charging Stand will be available in August. The $70 charger, which the company designed with Apple, keeps your phone stable and upright in either portrait or landscape mode, the company said in a blog post on Monday. “Unlike traditional flat chargers, there’s no need for exact alignment — just drop your iPhone in the cradle and go,” said Michele …

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iPhone chip maker TSMC fights virus at factories

iPhone chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. saw several of its factories knocked offline Friday night because of a virus, but it’s unclear whether production of the iPhone components was affected, said a report Saturday by Bloomberg. The virus wasn’t introduced by a hacker, TSMC told the publication, adding that the company had contained the problem and restarted some manufacturing, …

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Android Pie: 3 hidden features

Shortly after Google released Android Pie in a public beta, we had it installed and began tapping around in an attempt to discover as much as we possibly could. Now, with Android Pie finalized and officially available, here are three features we think are worth pointing out. Now playing: Watch this: New features in Android P 2:17 Split screen Screenshots …

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Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars, touching off censorship debate

In a move presaged by weeks of mounting pressure,  Apple, Facebook, Google’s YouTube and Spotify cracked down on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire, removing wide swathes of content or terminating his accounts entirely. All the actions seemed to happen within 24 hours.  Was it a long-overdue crackdown or a conspiracy of censorship? That depends on who you …

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AMC Stubs A

I’m an avid moviegoer. I enjoy sitting with my giant bag of sour gummies and using my film degree to break down the “mise-en-scène” of whatever giant robot movie I’m watching. Despite the frequency with which I go to the theaters, I never bothered with MoviePass. I badly wanted a movie ticket subscription service, but MoviePass seemed like a huge …

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Facebook needs ‘safe harbor’ for public interest journalism, say researchers

Researchers want Facebook to change its rules, making it easier for journalists and academics to undertake investigations and studies on the social network. The Knight First Amendment Institute, a nonprofit organization at Columbia University, on Monday sent a letter asking CEO Mark Zuckerberg to amend Facebook’s terms of service and create a “safe harbor” for social media research and public …

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