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
Tyson Fury “To Go Off Social Media Completely” While Preparing For Dillian Whyte
Posted on 02/22/2022 “Hi. Tyson Fury here: AKA, the Gypsy King.” So began a social media post from Tyson Fury released Tuesday, roughly 24 hours after Dillian Whyte signed a contract to face him in April. “I’m about to go
Trump’s social media app goes live in Apple’s App Store
Users who downloaded the app Monday morning were greeted by a message inviting them to register for the service — but the signup process ended in a waitlist to access the platform that had already grown to more than 150,000.
Trump’s TRUTH Social launches at the top of the App Store, but no one can get in
Donald Trump’s media group released its TRUTH Social iOS app today in the U.S., but a scan of the app’s API using publicly available tools revealed that it already closed itself to registrations (also, the scan showed that its “proprietary
DC transit authority social media accounts hacked with obscene Twitter posts
In the early morning, a series of lewd tweets and photos were posted on the Twitter accounts for the metro rail service and WMATA, which posts information about the capital area’s metro system. The WMATA Twitter page name was also
Oscar Valdez: “Shakur Stevenson Is Very Good At Fighting But He’s Better At Social Media”
Posted on 02/20/2022 By: Hans Themistode Shakur Stevenson has done his best to poke, antagonize, and annoy Oscar Valdez. The 24-year-old New Jersey native has been eyeing a showdown against Valdez since both men competed at 126 pounds. At one
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
Microsoft shuts down AltspaceVR’s social hubs to combat harassment
Microsoft is making a handful of changes to AltspaceVR to combat harassment within the virtual reality app. As of today, the company has removed the Campfire, News and Entertainment Commons social spaces. Those were hubs where AltspaceVR users could freely
Street Photographer Helen Levitt’s Unweepy Social Realism
Her photos capture rambunctious life in gritty New York neighborhoods. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I’ m in Paris now, but for a week I was among the few Americans in London. That said, totems of America were plentiful. I saw two
Republicans add crack pipes to list of social issues for 2022 midterms
They see a “crack” in the armor. Republican party strategists are champing at the bit for the 2022 midterm elections, eager to hammer Dems over a growing list of off-the-wall woke initiatives — the latest a reported plan by the
Researchers warn that social media may be ‘fundamentally at odds’ with science
A special set of editorials published in today’s issue of the journal Science argue that social media in its current form may well be fundamentally broken for the purposes of presenting and disseminating facts and reason. The algorithms are running
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
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
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