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Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former Worker

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The employee, who worked in a group dedicated to rooting out fake accounts, said executives ignored or were slow to react to her warnings.

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First “OLED EX” TVs announced, promising brighter high-contrast picture

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Enlarge / Philips OLED807. (credit: TPVision) Philips has revealed the first TVs to use LG’s new type of OLED panel, OLED EX. The Philips OLED807 line of 4K HDR TVs announced Thursday doesn’t have a price, but it will be released in Europe sometime this year. OLED EX promises to increase brightness “up to 30 percent […]
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Blizzard confirms developer named in lawsuit was removed for “misconduct”

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Enlarge / Ex-Blizzard developer Alex Afrasiabi as he appeared in a 2019 video promoting World of Warcraft . (credit: Blizzard ) Last year, reports started to bubble up among Blizzard-watchers that longtime World of Warcraft developer Alex Afrasiabi, who was first hired in 2004, had quietly left the company without any official explanation. Now that […]
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Radio astronomers scouring the archives spotted black hole devouring a star

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Enlarge / Artist’s conception of a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) — a star being shredded by the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole. Material from the star spirals into a disk rotating around the black hole, and a jet of particles is ejected. There are decades of radio astronomy data in the archives of […]