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  • President pardons ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

  • The reset of presidential Twitter accounts

  • A notable drop in misinformation attributed to Twitter's Trump ban

  • Google cuts off another AI expert in the company

  • Google Research report shows its accomplishments in AI

  • Google tests blocking news from search in Australia

  • youtube-dl reinstated thanks to the EFF

  • U.S. judge in Facebook antitrust lawsuits sets March, April deadlines for responses

  • Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law

  • Cory Doctorow on the Deplatforming of the (former) President

  • TikTok users make Bridgerton, the Musical

  • Discuss 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb"

  • Biden Has a Peloton Bike. That Raises Issues at the White House

  • Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto

  • Trump administration adds China's Comac, Xiaomi to Chinese military blacklist

  • In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders

  • Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol

  • Developer Makes Interactive Map of Parler Videos From Capitol Hill Riots

  • MIT review has a guide to ethical online investigation

  • Bernie mitten memes!

  • Chrome 88 rolling out with a number of changes

  • Gmail now lets you resize Google Chat, Rooms in the web sidebar

  • Google cuts off acceess for Chromium browsers to sync, other services

  • The Google Play Store adds icons to show chart position changes

  • Google rolling out Winter Seasonal Savings to Nest Thermostats

  • Google previewing new Nest Hub alarms with more customization, tones, and 'Sunrise'

  • Google Maps making streets, nature much more detailed

  • Google Store stops selling the two-year-old Pixel USB-C earbuds

  • Stadia's new State Share features lands with the release of Hitman 3

  • The Complete List of Trump's Twitter Insults (2015-2021)

  • Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits

  • Trump seeks to curb foreign cyber meddling on last day in office

  • Pocket Casts is up for sale nearly three years after acquisition by public radio consortium

Picks:


  • Ant: Thank you to the Heroes image

  • Stacey: $10 GE grow light

  • Jeff: Digital reading exploded during the pandemic

  • Jeff: Netflix has reached 200 million customers


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