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Google, Facebook, and Twitter to produce regular reports on coronavirus disinformation for the EU (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/11/2020 - 06:10Facebook’s revamped news section launches in the US with a focus on local sources (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 06/09/2020 - 16:545G: everything you need to know (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 06/09/2020 - 11:10Facebook tells group admins to consider adding people of color as moderators (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 06/07/2020 - 09:37The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t. (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/04/2020 - 12:58Telehealth wasn't designed for non-english speakers (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/04/2020 - 10:38SpaceX is launching its latest batch of internet satellites
SpaceX is slated to launch the latest batch of 60 internet-beaming satellites for its ever-growing Starlink constellation on the night of June 3. Once this mission takes off, SpaceX will have launched a little more than 480 of its Starlink satellites into orbit. That’s only a small fraction of the nearly 12,000 Starlink satellites that the company has permission to launch. The goal of the massive project is to provide global internet coverage from space.
Conspiracy theorists say 5G causes novel coronavirus, so now they’re harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 06/03/2020 - 13:43HBO Max won’t hit AT&T data caps, but Netflix and Disney Plus will
HBO Max, AT&T’s big bet on the future of streaming, will be excused from AT&T’s mobile data caps, while competing services like Netflix and Disney Plus will use up your data. Tony Goncalves, the AT&T executive in charge of HBO Max, when asked whether HBO Max would hit the cap said his team “had the conversation” but didn’t have the answer.