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Google has removed Parler, a social media app popular with Trump supporters, from the Google Play Store, making it much harder for Android users to download and access the app. Google said in a statement that its requires social media apps to have content moderation policies that remove posts that incite violence, and that posts on Parler were encouraging further violence after the U.S. Capitol riot earlier this week. The removal of the app comes as the violence at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters on Wednesday that left five dead has renewed calls for social media and technology companies...

With what transpired yesterday with Apple, Google, and Twitter actively trying to censor conservative, maybe we all need to dump the stock we hold in these companies. I am considering dumping my iPhone for a Samsung. Of course, once Burden takes office the Chinese phones will hit the market here and Apple will be displaced in the market.

Employee Alexander Blair 2 hours ago · 101k @ablair Good Evening! Just wanted to drop in and give a quick note about the issues we saw today, with the massive influx of new members coming onboard to Parler, we've been busy working on making sure the platform works well as we go forwards and prepare for more people to join the site. We're working on alternate ways to acquire the mobile application, we'll be providing more updates for that over the next couple of days as we finalize locations and how we want to distribute it (Thanks to @sickcodes for...

Petitioners including ACLU say passcodes are protected by the Fifth Amendment; prosecutors disagree Two civil-liberties groups are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on an increasingly relevant digital-privacy question: Do Americans have a constitutional right to keep their passwords and passcodes secret?It’s a thorny legal issue, and one that is unsettled in the U.S., according to lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who on Thursday filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking it to decide the matter once and for all.The initiative is the latest twist in a tug of war between...

I think with Apple threatening to ban Parler, they may just make a HUGE mistake. Apple can ban it. Sure. But Google cannot prevent people from downloading the app to their phones. 75,000,000 Americans may be looking for an alternative to Twitter now. Today.

Google has pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives and far-right extremists, from its app store following the company's role in the deadly U.S. Capitol siege this week.........

BREAKING: Apple is currently threatening to ban Parler -- the free speech alternative to Twitter -- unless the service enacts draconian censorship policies demanded by left-wing Big Tech oligarchs, according to two sources familiar with Apple's threats.

It appears that Apple has blocked directions to Washington D.C. on its navigation app., leaving some wondering if it is an attempt to keep people out of the city ahead of the planned Trump rally on Wednesday.

Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Asian supply chain has been rocked by protests in both China and India over unpaid wages and bonuses, the Financial Times reported Sunday. What Happened: On Friday and Saturday, more than 100 workers on the iPhone maker’s assembly lines protested in China over unpaid bonuses, according to FT. The demonstration against Taiwanese Pegatron Corporation was centered around unpaid bonuses of RMB 10,000 ($1,530) each, according to China Labor Watch. The workers raised the slogan, “Give us back our blood and sweat money,” as per a video seen by FT. Last week, Apple workers in India vandalized...

In a clash of the Tech Titans, social media giant Facebook has lashed out at iPhone maker Apple in a full-page ad in at least three U.S. newspapers, claiming that Facebook is standing up to Apple on the behalf of small businesses. 9to5Mac reports that social media giant Facebook has lashed out at iPhone maker Apple claiming to be the defender of small businesses. Facebook ran full-page ads in at least three U.S. newspapers claiming that Apple is negatively affecting small business owners by preventing the running of targeted ads with the latest iPhone update. --snip-- The ad relates to...

By now, Monday’s massive Google outage is history for most people. While it was a minor inconvenience for some, with most Google services being down for hours on end, it was a much larger pain in the electronic ass for the tragically hip who have surrendered their “smart” homes to Google. In fact, of the services that went down, it was Google Home users who were literally left in the dark during the outage on Monday, RT notes. As a result, “smart home” users were complaining about not being able to perform once-simple tasks at their homes – like turning...

Apple disappointed Wall Street in October when it reported a 20% drop in YOY iPhone revenue during its Q4 (remember, Apple runs on its own quarterly timeline) earnings report, something management tried to dismiss as simply a lull before the 5G upgrade "supercycle" was unleashed by the iPhone 12 generation of phones.As Tim Cook has been saying for years now, Apple is no longer all about the iPhone. The company finding more and more ways to diversify away from its dependence on the iPhone, the most revolutionary consumer tech product of the 21st Century (so far, at least), including investing...

There have been two latest reports that paint Apple in a damning light when it arrives to caring about the well being and perfectly-remaining of the personnel that create its goods. One fears the extended-term employing practices of Apple’s manufacturing facility associates (partly driven by Apple’s have needs), whilst the other touches on China’s abuse of the million or so Uyghurs at present held in internment camps. First, a new report dependent on interviews with four Apple workforce paperwork how the enterprise was alarmed by a 2014 Chinese monthly bill strengthening employee protections, and demanding that no much more than...

Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton are set to host and produce a docuseries, entitled, Gutsy Women. The series will stream on Apple’s service Apple TV+ and will seek to answer the question: “what exactly does it take to be a Gutsy Woman?” The docuseries is inspired by the pair’s best-selling book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, according to a report by Deadline. The outlet reports that the show will feature the former first lady and her daughter answer the question, “what exactly does it take to be a Gutsy Woman?”

Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/SIPA USA/AP Images This is the winter of discontent for Hollywood workers, as no level of seniority has been spared from the wave of mass layoffs. Warner Bros. has been shaken by two rounds of layoffs and a wholesale restructuring that have ushered out veterans with decades of service to the Hollywood studio. NBCUniversal has rewired the structure of its TV content production and distribution operations, leading to hundreds of job cuts. ViacomCBS has periodically shed bodies by the dozens in the year since its two halves formally tied the knot again in December 2019. AMC Networks...

Apple wants their private security force to be allowed concealed carry permits. Police dept says: Since we are in California the 2nd amendment does not apply. We May Not ever issue any CC permits or it might take a few years (unless you make it worth our while.) Apple exec says have some Ipads, and football suite tickets so you can have a meeting about modernizing and expediting your process. Permits get issued and Apple exec gets arrested for bribery. Police department still investigating itself to see if anyone did anything wrong.

A grand jury in Santa Clara, California, has issued an indictment accusing Apple’s chief security officer, Thomas Moyer, of offering bribes to secure concealed carry permits for Apple employees. Moyer allegedly promised to donated 200 iPads worth $70,000 to the sheriff’s office in exchange for four concealed carry licenses “withheld from Apple employees,” according to a press release from the Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen. “Tom Moyer is innocent of the charges filed against him. He did nothing wrong and has acted with the highest integrity throughout his career. We have no doubt he will be acquitted at trial,”...

Fruity cargo cult Apple has been hit by another child labour scandal, this time involving its Pegatron supplier. The Financial Times discovered that Pegatron used thousands of student interns working overtime to assemble iPhones in breach of Chinese law. The Tame Apple Press has been doing its best to make Apple appear the good guy in the scandal saying that Jobs’ Mob had “reprimanded” Pegatron. After being contacted by the FT, Apple said it had stopped giving "new business" to Pegatron, its second-largest iPhone assembler after Foxconn. Strangely though, Pegatron does not appear to have received the memo and workers...

On Monday, Starlink the space based internet service from SpaceX an Elon Musk company began to notify people via email that they've been selected for public Beta Testing... The service will cost $99/month with speeds of 50 to 150 Mbs....with a latency of 20-40ms..... There is a additional $499 charge for the equipment that includes the self-aligning dish and in home router....along with a mounting tripod... An additional $99 is available for roof mounted dishes. Users were also told to expect increases in speed and lower latency as more satellites get deployed... You need a clear view of the Norther...

Google’s high-handed tactics with US regulators have come back to haunt it, with critics saying the tech giant set the stage for a dramatic showdown with the Department of Justice nearly a decade ago. The DOJ last week sued Google, accusing it of using anti-competitive tactics to maintain its search engine’s dominance over rivals. The focus of the suit — massive cash payments to smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung to make Google’s search engine the default option on their devices — is a fresh one. But industry sources say the Silicon Valley giant has nevertheless made itself vulnerable to...