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    Twitter bans Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s personal account over COVID-19 misinformation – TechCrunch

    Twitter has permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) “for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” according to the company....

    How Discord, Born From an Obscure Game, Became a Social Hub

    In 2015, Jason Citron, a computer programmer, was struggling to break through in the video game industry. The new multiplayer game he had created...

    New Travel Apps to Help You Plan Your Next Getaway 2022

    While travel is fraught amid the rise of the Omicron variant, people are still dreaming of their next getaway. There are even new apps...

    Tesla Recalls More Than 475,000 Cars Over Two Safety Defects

    Tesla has told federal regulators that it plans to recall more than 475,000 cars for two separate defects that could affect safety.One recall covers...

    28 Row, a New App for College Women and Influencers

    Tumi Adeyoju, 20, is a public health major at the University of Houston. But when she’s not in class or studying, she runs a...

    Waymo partners with Geely to make electric AVs for ride hail in the US – TechCrunch

    Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous driving technology arm, is partnering with Chinese automaker Geely to build an all-electric, self-driving ride-hailing vehicle. The companies will integrate Waymo...

    About 20 Apple stores are now closed as the Omicron variant surges.

    Apple said on Monday that about 20 of its retail stores were closed because of a wave of Covid-19 cases among employees that had...

    How Hillary Clinton’s MasterClass Shows a Very 2021 Way to Be

    For a time, the most indelible cultural artifact of this moment was a parenthetical bit of metadata, “(Taylor’s Version),” which Swift appended to the...

    The Latest High School Prank? Students Sleeping.

    Zach Lewis swears he was just resting his eyes.But when a fellow student at Stowe Middle High School in Vermont surreptitiously snapped his picture...

    TikTok Made Them Famous. Figuring Out What’s Next Is Tough.

    Before Charli D’Amelio became the most popular creator on TikTok — she currently has 132 million followers — she danced on the competitive contemporary-dance...

    Tesla Agrees to Stop Letting Drivers Play Video Games in Moving Cars

    Tesla has agreed to modify software in its cars to prevent drivers and passengers from playing video games on the dashboard screens while vehicle...

    The New Get-Rich-Faster Job in Silicon Valley: Crypto Start-Ups

    OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sandy Carter left her job as a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing unit this month, she announced in a...

    Lawmakers Urge Big Tech to ‘Mitigate Harm’ of Suicide Site and Seek Justice Inquiry

    Families of those who spent time on the website and learned ways to die have long sought accountability from tech companies that lead people...

    Webb Telescope Approaches Launch, With an Eye Toward Cosmic Origins

    There are only a few times in the history of a species when it gains the know-how, the audacity and the tools to greatly...

    Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Closing Arguments Are Set to Begin

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — For Elizabeth Holmes, it all boils down to intent.On Thursday, prosecutors and defense lawyers laid out their closing arguments in...

    G.M. Says Dan Ammann, C.E.O of Driverless Unit Cruise, Is Leaving

    The high-profile head of Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous-driving unit, is leaving the company, the carmaker said Thursday.The executive, Dan Ammann, a former investment banker...