Grizzlies superstar Ja Morant apologizes after appearing to brandish gun in viral video, deletes social media

Ja Morant will be away from his Memphis Grizzlies for the foreseeable future, and he will be off social media for the time being.The superstar guard deleted his Twitter and Instagram accounts shortly after the team announced he will be

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This Week in Apps: Facebook Reels goes global, Trump’s own social app arrives, all eyes on TikTok

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer

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Meta’s ‘Horizon’ Social VR Platform Surpasses 300,000 Users in 3 Months

Meta opened its Horizon Worlds social VR platform in December, rolling out its proto-metaverse project to Quest users in the US and Canada. During an all-hands company call this past week—where CEO Mark Zuckerberg dubbed Meta employees ‘metamates’—the company announced

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Pearpop introduces dynamic NFTs that gain value as a social media post goes viral

Pearpop, the social media collaboration marketplace, is diving head-first into crypto. With big-name backers like The Chainsmokers, Alexis Ohanian, Mark Cuban and Snoop Dogg, Pearpop is launching Pearproof, a web3 app that allows creators to mint NFTs of their social

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Gawker Announces It Has Obtained Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s Social Security Number

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for Shalanda Young, nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, in Washington, D.C., February 1, 2022. (Al Drago/Pool via Reuters) Gawker has

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Advocacy Group Files Complaint against NYC Schools over ‘Segregated’ Social Justice Exercise

The entrance to a public school in the Queens borough of New York, July 8, 2020. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The organization Parents Defending Education announced on Wednesday that it filed a civil rights complaint against New York City Public Schools, after

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