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Content from a YouTube channel with an anti-vaccination stance has been removed, after it was found to have violated the platform's community guidelines. The channel is based on a group called Healing The Divide, founded by Ms Iris Koh, a Singaporean, and claims to warn people about the dangers of vaccination. The Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Sunday (Nov 7) that Ms Koh's channel has a history of posting and sharing content that perpetuates falsehoods and misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines.

Stevie Nicks is very particular about certain things in her life. She has to put her mattress on the floor whenever she’s feeling overwhelmed by fame and wants to return to simple times. There have to be rainbow lightbulbs in her home, as well as “fabulous” sheets. A photo of her and George Harrison has to be on her at all times when she’s on tour, as does her expensive massage chair. However, there is one thing that Nicks is the most particular about, excessive cellphone and computer use. If you’re around Nicks, don’t expect any technology to be around....

So I was standardized on Opera for several years, tried Brave, didn't really like it, and then someone on here recommended Vivaldi. I tried it and really like it, it's my main browser now. Problem is, it seems to lose the file-type association for web links and http files and so on. I clicked on a link in an email and it opened the box inviting me to tell it what program to use, and -- Vivaldi wasn't even one of the pre-registered options, only Opera. So I browsed to the location (which is oddly in %APPDATA%), and explicitly told...

DWAC stock could be worth chance as the Trump SPAC is far from doneIn an age where polarization is king, Digital World Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:DWAC) stock makes a lot of sense. The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) has agreed to merge with former President Donald Trump’s social media venture, Truth Social. Truth Social is extremely interesting in and of itself. Essentially, investors who believe in its cause should have plenty of reason to consider purchasing DWAC shares.

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most sf bay internet down for 1.5 hours (11 pm pst monday to 12:45 am pst tuesday) down- comcast/infinity cable, t-mobile cellular data up- att cellular data very odd, possibly storm related. annoyingly ineffective comcast/infinity help line (wait was 1.5 hours, but they hung up at 30 minutes) i have never experienced such a long time off the internet, at least since the early research days... not good...

Local "resistance committees" and the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), which led demonstrations in the uprising that toppled then-president Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, are organizing a campaign of protests to try to reverse the military takeover. Internet services have been badly disrupted since the October 25 coup, and phone coverage remains patchy. Although daily life came to a near standstill, shops, roads, and some banks have since reopened. On Sunday, the commander in chief of the military, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, met an Arab League delegation, which stressed the importance of dialog and the democratic transition, his office said in a...

The New York State Gaming Commission on Nov. 8 awarded nine temporary mobile sports betting licenses. These mobile licenses signal a massive market change that will recapture millions of dollars in lost gaming revenue in New York. It will also eliminate the need for bettors to cross New Jersey’s border to place mobile sports bets.

The official Facebook page of the US Navy’s destroyer-class warship, USS Kidd, has been hijacked. According to Task & Purpose, who first reported on the incident, the account has done nothing but stream Age of Empires, an award-winning, history-based real-time strategy (RTS) video game wherein players get to grow civilizations by progressing them from one historical time frame to another. In an interview with Task & Purpose, Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman, a Navy spokesperson, confirmed the hijacking: “The official Facebook page for USS Kidd (DDG 100) was hacked. We are currently working with Facebook technical support to resolve the issue.” As...

Authorities were able to find a missing 16-year-old girl after she caught the attention of a driver by using hand gestures popularized on the social media platform TikTok. According to the Laurel County Sheriff's Office in Kentucky, the girl was inside a silver-colored Toyota car when the driver saw her using hand signals known on TikTok "to represent violence at home — I need help — domestic violence." After recognizing what the signals meant and seeing that the teen "appeared to be in distress," the driver called 911, the sheriff's office said in a statement. The alert led to the...

DENVER, Colo. — Facebook announced it's going to stop using facial-recognition software. The software provides users with suggestions to tag people in photos and videos that are posted on the social network. Facebook says it also plans to delete data it had gathered, which is associated with over a billion people’s faces. “Why they are doing it is an interesting question,” said Casey Fiesler, a professor of information science at the University of Colorado. “Facebook is one of the last major tech companies to make this move.” Business technology journalist Shibani Joshi said this decision is happening just as Facebook...

Alzheimer’s dementia predicted by brain amyloid levels, age. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed an approach to estimating when a person who is likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but has no cognitive symptoms, will start showing signs of Alzheimer’s dementia. The algorithm, available online in the journal Neurology, uses data from a kind of brain scan known as amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) to gauge brain levels of the key Alzheimer’s protein amyloid beta. In those who eventually develop Alzheimer’s dementia, amyloid silently builds up in the brain for up to two decades before...

Just a small snippet from the recent Microsoft Ignite. Watch as they tell you about the indigenous land they're holding the conference on, and tell you about their pronouns, skin color, clothing and hair.

It's important to note that there's a difference between deleting your Facebook account and deactivating it. Deactivating your Facebook account temporarily freezes it... But that does nothing to prevent the company from tracking your online activity. 1. Delete the Facebook app from your phone and tablet ... To fully separate from Facebook, deleting your account is the only answer. Deleting it also severs ties to Facebook Messenger, the platform's chat app. (If you want to also get rid of Instagram and WhatsApp, which are Facebook properties, you'll have to do that separately.) 3. Disconnect your Facebook account from other apps...

Children’s screen time doubled during pandemic — and hasn’t changed much since NOVEMBER 1, 2021 by Study Finds Share Tweet SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Children’s screen time has doubled during the pandemic — and it hasn’t gone down since, according to new research. Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco say youngsters are spending almost eight hours a day looking at smartphones, tablets, and televisions, compared to less than four hours before COVID. Concerningly, this figure does not include the time spent on computers for school work. Researchers focused completely on recreational activities like playing video games, chatting on social...

Hey I'm trying to find out what commands to use in Linux Mint to find out what the wi-fi and network mac address is? Anyone know? I'm an old WinXP user,,,

The FAA plans to issue a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin and an Airworthiness Directive in coming days concerning the rollout of 5G cellular phone service in 46 major metropolitan areas of the U.S. on Dec. 5, according to Reuters. The actions are expected to limit the use of automated systems on aircraft that rely on radar altimeters (also called radio altimeters) and it’s possible that flight delays and cancellations will result. Reuters also quoted a letter from FAA Deputy Administrator Bradley Mims that says the agency shares “the deep concern about the potential impact to aviation safety resulting from interference...

Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted vulnerabilities into any software without being detected, new research released today warns. The vulnerability disclosure was coordinated with multiple organizations, some of whom are now releasing updates to address the security weakness.Researchers with the University of Cambridge discovered a bug that affects most computer code compilers and many software development environments. At issue is a component of the digital text encoding standard Unicode, which allows computers to exchange information regardless of the...

He’s also publicly railed against what he claims is a campaign against drugs like fluvoxamine and ivermectin. And, according to three members of CETF’s scientific advisory board, he put pressure on them to promote fluvoxamine for clinical use without conclusive data that it worked for covid. More recently, he’s adopted extremist positions on covid vaccines, which he alleges are “toxic.” He has claimed that one in 1,000 people who have received mRNA vaccines have died as a result, and even claimed the vaccines “kill more people than they save” at an FDA public forum, which was first reported by the...

“Whenever a government claims to have the people’s interests at heart, you need to think again. In the entire history of mankind there has never been a political elite sincerely concerned about the wellbeing of regular people. What makes any of us think that it is different now.” – Christine Anderson MEPIn Strasbourg, on 20 October 2021, four Members of the European Parliament (“MEPs”) held a press conference: “Defending fundamental rights by opposing the misuse of Digital Green Certificate”. The four MEPs were: Christine Anderson (Germany, ID), Francesca Donato (Italy, NI), Ivan Vilibor Sinčić (Croatia, NI), and Cristian Terheş (Romania,...