February, 2021

• 11 February

  Disney Plus hits 94.9 million subscribers in just over a year

  

  Disney Plus grew to 94.9 million subscribers as of Jan. 2, Disney said Thursday. That’s 8 million subscribers added since early November, and more than three times the number of subscribers that Disney Plus had a year earlier.  By comparison, Netflix, the biggest subscription video service in the world, had more than 200 million global subscribers at the …

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• 11 February

  Facebook removed more than 1 million posts for COVID

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook and its photo-service Instagram pulled down more than 1 million pieces of content during the last three months of 2020 for containing misinformation about COVID-19 that could lead to “imminent harm.”  This content included fake preventative measures for COVID-19, the respiratory illness …

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• 11 February

  Microsoft reportedly considered acquiring Pinterest

  

  Microsoft looked into buying image-sharing social media site Pinterest in the last few months, the Financial Times reported Thursday. However, talks about a possible acquisition have apparently stalled. It’s the latest hint that Microsoft wants to acquire a social media platform, after looking at taking over the US side of Chinese video-sharing app TikTok last year. The company already owns …

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• 11 February

  Instagram Reels will suppress videos with TikTok watermarks

  

  In a Tuesday post on its Creators account, Instagram advised users not to repost content “that is visibly recycled from other apps” on Reels, its TikTok competitor. The Facebook-owned company added that seeing indicators like logos or watermarks “makes the Reels experience less satisfying,” so it’s making that kind of content harder to discover in the Reels tab.  Instagram launched …

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• 11 February

  Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt hit by ransomware attack, source code leaked

  

  CD Projekt Red, developed of Cyberpunk 2077, revealed Tuesday its network was hacked and shared a ransom note left by the hackers on Twitter. The attackers claimed to have got hold of source code for Cyberpunk, The Witcher 3, an “unreleased version of Witcher 3” and spinoff card game Gwent.  The hackers threatened to release the games’ source code, along with …

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• 11 February

  Microsoft Teams experiencing outage, particularly on West Coast

  

  Video conferencing app Microsoft Teams is suffering an apparent outage Thursday evening in major cities across the US but particularly on the West Coast. The outage, which appears to have begun around 4:15 p.m. PT, appears to mostly be affecting users Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to DownDetector. Users on the site reported being unable to log into …

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• 11 February

  Clubhouse explained

  

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• 11 February

  Twitter says Trump ban is permanent, Facebook tests reduced political content

  

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• 11 February

  For All Mankind: Time Capsule (AR trailer)

  

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• 10 February

  Get Microsoft’s Arm

  

  The Surface Pro X is Microsoft’s take on an Arm-powered PC. The latest edition offers better performance (thanks to the upgraded SQ2 processor), longer battery life and a best-in-class keyboard. And right now, Microsoft is discounting the Surface Pro X by up to $200, with the basic model starting at $799.  See it at Microsoft The Arm-based processor has its …

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