After driving the new Land Rover Defender, I can’t wait for an electric version

After driving the new Land Rover Defender, I can’t wait for an electric version Why I’m pumped that Land Rover is finally going electric The reality Before we get to mycontroversialexcitement though, let’s look at why this is happening, and what those old-school fans think. Withbans on the sale of new gasoline cars set to come into forceover the next decade, Land Rover’s shift to electric power had to come sooner or later....

5 min · 902 words · Catherine Ward

After FaceTime, here’s how Apple can half-ass its other apps to Android

Big news from WWDC: FaceTime will beavailable on Windows and Android! Apart from! Not really! Because the port! Is total shit! In case you missedthe update, Apple has spent the past year trying to copy Zoom. Part of this is that FaceTime, its video calling app, is opening up. This is all well and good — besides the fact that you can’treallyuse FaceTime if you’re not on an Apple device....

3 min · 592 words · Michael Stone

After Google, PayPal now faces Purple Leaf patent lawsuit

Following news that Googlehad been suedon Tuesday over its use of its Google Checkout payment system,it has emergedthat eBay-owned PayPal has been named in a similar lawsuit by Purple Leaf LLC, accusing the company of infringing patents relating to online payments and receipts. Purple Leaf had claimed that Google – and now PayPal too – “is infringing the ‘311 Patent in the State of Texas, in this judicial district, and elsewhere in the United States by making, using, importing, selling or offering to sell services and products that practice methods and utilize devices for conducting a transaction using a medium based on a receipt having payment remittance information....

2 min · 308 words · Calvin Henson

After Obama, the UK’s Prime Minister is next for a YouTube probing

Last month, YouTube began a new series “Citizen-powered interviews” with world leaders. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the first of these Q&As was with the president of the Google-owned company’s native land, Barack Obama. Now, the second leader to go up against the people’s questions has beenannounced– British Prime Minister, David Cameron. YouTube and its partner in theWorld Viewproject, Al Jazeera is looking for questions to be submitted around the themes of foreign policy, national security, and the present situation in the Middle East....

2 min · 320 words · Caitlin Turner

After repeatedly promising not to, Facebook keeps recommending political groups to its users

Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, a member of the “Not My President” Facebook group wrote in a post, “remember, our founding fathers were seen as terrorist [sic] and traitors.” A fellow group member commented, “I’ll fight for what’s right, this corruption has to be stopped immediately.” Three months later, Facebook recommended the group to at least three people, despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated promise to permanently end political group recommendations on the social network specifically to stop amplifying divisive content....

8 min · 1702 words · Jose Williams
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