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AT&T Customers Will Be Reimbursed For Outage AT&T has announced plans to reimburse customers affected by Thursday’s extensive wireless outage, which disrupted services for nearly 12 hours and impacted over 70,000 individuals. In a statement issued by the carrier, it was revealed that affected customers will receive a $5 credit, intended to cover the “average […]

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Google’s mixup of Luther Vandross and Master P was ironic since the search engine stouted itself in its own 2023 Diversity Annual Report as meeting “its Racial Equity Commitment." The post Google’s Luther Vandross-Master P Photo Flub Spotlights Its Own ‘Racial Equity Commitment’ Failure appeared first on NewsOne.

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Backlash to Twitter's tweet-reading limits is boosting the Spill app. The post Spill: Black-Owned Social Media App Gains Momentum After Elon Musk Sets Tweet-Reading Limit On Twitter appeared first on NewsOne.

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This isn’t just another battle in the free speech wars. The post Revisiting Platform Accountability Coverage After Trump Reinstated To Facebook And Instagram appeared first on NewsOne.

MASON, Ohio — Roller coaster rides are setting off a new Apple crash detection feature launched in September that automatically alerts emergency services. The Warren County Communications Center has received six calls generated by iPhones while their users were riding a Kings Island coaster, said Melissa Bour, director of Warren County emergency services. Additional calls […]

Acknowledging the disruption of organizing and information distribution, the Disinfo Defense League's policy platform consists of nine key points. Calls to action in the newly released platform included banning discriminatory algorithms, enhancing data transparency, protecting whistleblowers, and expanding Federal Trade Commission oversight. 

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FCC Taking Steps To Stop Annoying Robocalls   Tired of those super annoying Robocalls? Well the FCC is stepping in to help!   The Federal Trade Commission revealed it received almost 2 million complaints from Americans about unwanted calls in the first nine months of 2020. Of those, 1.9 million pertained to robocalls. With that […]

A bunch of music artists coming together to promote a music streaming platform the benefits them? Now, where have we heard this before?

A 65-year-old Chicago man found out the hard way that being in the wrong place at the wrong time could land you in jail for a year after police-issued gunshot detector ShotSpotter identified him as the shooter in a crime he didn't commit but was simply driving near.

Spotify is the latest company to offer voice-only chatrooms.

If you're lucky enough to get a text message from Bill Gates, it's going to be a green bubble becuase he is team Android all the way.