September, 22 2022

💻 Instagram Crash

Instagram crashed for users today who complained that they could not post photos or view the app in several countries like India.

🍿 Drama at the Celtics

Coach of the Boston Celtics, Ime Udoka, may be suspended for the upcoming 2022-2023 season for pursuing an intimate relationship with a member of the franchise's staff. Udoka coached the Celtics to the NBA final last season, and the possible suspension is unprecedented in the NBA.

🍿 Unholy Out Now

Sam Smith and Kim Petras released their collaboration \"Unholy\" after teaser clips of the song went mega-viral on Tik Tok.

💻 Football and Amazon Off to a Good Start

Amazon Prime's first exclusive Thursday Night Football Game was a smashing success, debuting to 15.3 million viewers. The number of viewers exceeded Amazon's expectations that 12.5 million people would tune in.

💻 Triumphant Trombone Champ

A new game from Holy Wow Studios, Trombone Champion, has gone massively viral after launching last week. The game lets you try to cover classic songs like 'The Star Spangled Banner' by sliding the cursor to hit your trombone-playing-avatar's notes.

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💻 Meta Pays Up

A judge has ordered Meta to pay the voice-to-text transcription company, Voxer $175 million for patent infringement.

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⚖️ Second Act of Sandy Hook Trial

Alex Jones once again appeared before a court in Connecticut to try and limit the amount of damages he has been ordered to pay to the parents of a victim of the Sandy Hook Shooting.

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⚖️ Special Master Asks for More

Judge Raymond Dearie's latest request for Trump's legal team is that they provide evidence to support their claim that the FBI planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago. Dearie requested an itemized list of items the team believes were planted and not taken from Mar-a-Lago.

⚖️ House Passes Policing Bills

The House passed four new policing bills after divisions in the Democratic party caused the bills to stall out temporarily. The bills eventually passed after lengthy negotiations between progressive and more moderate Democrats.

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💻 Apple Updates the Shakes

Apple is issuing an update for iPhone's that updated to iOS 16. iOS 16.0.2 will address the camera shaking bug that some users experienced in third party apps like Snapchat and Tik Tok.

⚡️ Prisoner Exchange in Ukraine

Several hundred prisoners of war are back home after a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine was conducted today. Amongst those who returned to Ukraine in the surprise exchange are citizens of ten citizens from five countries, including the U.K. and the U.S.

💻 Facebook Users Go After Meta

A group of Facebook users is suing Meta for using an iOS loophole to track users. The users allege that Meta broke Apple privacy rules and federal privacy protections by monitoring users through Facebook's in-app browser.

💻 New to DocuSign

DocuSign has hired the former president of the Americas and global partners at Google, Allan Thygesen, to be their next CEO. Thygesen will start as CEO on October 10th.

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The producers of the film "Rust" named Bianca Cline as its cinematographer. The documentary will cover the death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during production when a prop gun held by lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin misfired with a live round.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Rust Documentary Is Moving Full Speed Ahead

The producers of the film "Rust" named Bianca Cline as its cinematographer. The documentary will cover the death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during production when a prop gun held by lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin misfired with a live round.
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Green light for Rust documentary

  • The producers of the film “Rust” announced that they had found a cinematographer to continue the production of the film after it was halted when the former cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed in an on-set accident.
  • The producers announced in October that the film would be completed in Hutchins’ honor and that a documentary would be made about the completion of the film.
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Meta is reportedly planning a new round of layoffs that are expected to happen sometime in March.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Meta May Be Planning Further Layoffs

Meta is reportedly planning a new round of layoffs that are expected to happen sometime in March.
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Here we go again

  • Meta is preparing for a new round of job cuts that are expected to take place in March and will affect an unknown number of people.
  • In November, Meta laid off about 13% of its workforce.
  • Meta is one of the few tech companies to expand on earlier layoffs from 2022, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that 2023 will be a year of "efficiency."
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January inflation was higher than expected, sparking fears that the Federal Reserve may enact further interest rate hikes.
January inflation was higher than expected, sparking fears that the Federal Reserve may enact further interest rate hikes.
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Higher than expected

  • Consumer prices rose 0.5% in January, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index, which was higher than experts expected.
  • The Federal Reserve may issue a more aggressive hike in the coming months to slow inflation.
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