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In a new blog post on Tuesday, Twitter committed to continue dealing with problems that have long plagued the website: spam and harassment. We do not value fake engagement. Taking bigger steps to improvehttps://t.co/A4b8IREWTc — jack (@jack) June 26, 2018 Since the 2016 election, malicious bot and troll accounts have …

Lost amid the chaos of Wednesday’s Supreme Court-related news was this little meet-and-greet between President Trump and Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, that added another chapter to Trump’s collection of awkward handshakes.  From the video, it appears as if de Sousa gives Trump a nice firm tug, flexing a …

“Good artists borrow great artists steal” is a phrase that Facebook seems acutely aware of. It’s common to speak of Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-app-now-social-network, borrowing from Snapchat, but now Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is increasingly drawing its innovation from others such as Telegram. This week, WhatsApp outed a new feature …

Let’s see. PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and iOS. Before its Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation 4/Xbox One) release this week, those were the platforms on which I already owned and had played Lumines previously. Each one, a version I’d happily, enthusiastically purchased. And here I am, back on my bullshit and …

Hoodline continues to serve as a reliable source of neighborhood news for San Francisco and Oakland, but it’s also been building tools that help other publications supplement their local coverage. Earlier this year, the company launched a news wire that automates the creation of local news stories using online data …

Fox’s grip on the president is undeniable. This week it got even tighter. Read more: huffingtonpost.com

It seems like when it rains it pours for the Democrats, because right after Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has announced that she too will retire from the Supreme Court in order to play Miss Hannigan in a community theater production of Annie. Read more… Read more: clickhole.com

Stuttering John, a podcaster who used to appear on The Howard Stern Show, managed to call the White House pretending to be a U.S. senator and spoke with President Donald Trump, while the president was on Air Force One. I find it astounding that the news media's not picking up …

By Cedric Voets  Published: June 27th, 2018  Read more: feedproxy.google.com

Getty Images / Mario Tama Global markets are once again worried about the impact of Trump’s trade war. Chinese stocks dropped sharply overnight, with losses then spreading to Europe. Major indexes on the continent are seeing losses of more than 1%. US Futures are also pointing lower, with the Nasdaq …