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Trump Details Plan to Ban the Use of TikTok in America

By Dylan Kemp / August 1, 2020

On Friday night, Trump said that he plans to ban TikTok from the United States. This comes after he rejected...

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Twitch’s Crackdown On Music Infringement Might Stop Live DJ Sets

By Rhett Butler / June 9, 2020

Now that the entertainment industry has been on "vacation" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists have flooded streaming sites to...

Amid Unrest IBM Drops Facial Recognition Software Over Racial Profiling Concerns

By Rhett Butler / June 9, 2020

IBM is dropping facial recognition software from its portfolio amid concerns over racial profiling and surveillance. CEO Arvind Krishna informed...

‘Pokemon’ Donates $100K to Both NCAACP & Black Lives Matter

By Miss2Bees / June 8, 2020

During the protests over the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police officers, The Pokemon Company pledged to donate...

Successful SpaceX Launch Earns Elon Musk a $770 Million Payday

By Roman White / June 2, 2020

As the Space X rocket reached orbit on Saturday, the Tesla CEO locked in a 9-figure payday. According to reports,...

Sony is Planning First PlayStation 5 Event for June 3rd

By Jason Cordner / May 28, 2020

Sony is finally ready to pull back the curtain on its upcoming Playstation 5 console. Bloomberg reports that Sony’s virtual event...

Trump Details Plan to Ban the Use of TikTok in America

Dylan Kemp

August 1, 2020

News, Politics, Tech, Tech News, Technology

On Friday night, Trump said that he plans to ban TikTok from the United States. This comes after he rejected a potential deal for Microsoft to buy the app from its Chinese owned parent company. "As far as ... Read Article

Twitch’s Crackdown On Music Infringement Might Stop Live DJ Sets

Rhett Butler

June 9, 2020

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Now that the entertainment industry has been on "vacation" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, artists have flooded streaming sites to stay relevant. Content streaming platforms like Twitch have been the go to fo... Read Article

Amid Unrest IBM Drops Facial Recognition Software Over Racial Profiling Concerns

Rhett Butler

June 9, 2020

Black Lives Matter, feature, Tech, Uncategorized

IBM is dropping facial recognition software from its portfolio amid concerns over racial profiling and surveillance. CEO Arvind Krishna informed Congress, saying IBM “firmly opposes and will not condone us... Read Article

‘Pokemon’ Donates $100K to Both NCAACP & Black Lives Matter

Miss2Bees

June 8, 2020

Black Lives Matter, Hip Hop Entertainment | Hip Hop TV, Film and Video Games, Hip Hop News | Trending Hip Hop Stories, Tech

During the protests over the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police officers, The Pokemon Company pledged to donate $100,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement and the same to the NCAAP in a recent t... Read Article

Successful SpaceX Launch Earns Elon Musk a $770 Million Payday

Roman White

June 2, 2020

News, Tech

As the Space X rocket reached orbit on Saturday, the Tesla CEO locked in a 9-figure payday. According to reports, Elon Musk earned $770 million in Tesla stocks after the Nasa x Space X rocket successfully reac... Read Article

Sony is Planning First PlayStation 5 Event for June 3rd

Jason Cordner

May 28, 2020

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Sony is finally ready to pull back the curtain on its upcoming Playstation 5 console. Bloomberg reports that Sony’s virtual event is tentatively planned for next week but that “plans have been in flux and ... Read Article

NASA Returning to Human Spaceflight with Historic SpaceX Launch Today

Rhett Butler

May 27, 2020

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Two astronauts will ride a privately built rocket and spacecraft to orbit Wednesday afternoon. This marks the first launch of humans from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto/statu... Read Article

YouTube Adds Bedtime Reminder Feature

Rachel Shubayeva

May 24, 2020

Digital, featured, Lifestyle, Tech, Tech News, Technology

Quarantine seems like a great time to fall into the rabbit hole of YouTube videos. This, of course, could lead to staying up late and looking at a screen longer. To help with this, YouTube has created a featur... Read Article

Coronavirus Crisis: Pandemic Drones to Monitor Fever, Crowds From Above

Sha Be Allah

April 16, 2020

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With the effects of the Coronavirus drastically impacting communities largely in part due to people not following the social distancing guidelines, some states have turned to technology to attempt to flatten t... Read Article

Playstation Network Crashes, Causing Chaos and Confusion for Millions of Users

Zoe Zorka

April 13, 2020

Tech, Tech News, Technology, Technology News | Digital Culture

For the millions of people around the world remained confined to their home in the midst of the worst global pandemic in modern history, video games have served as an outlet for recreation and communication wi... Read Article

U.S. and Europe Try Phone-Tracking Strategies to Combat Coronavirus

Rhett Butler

April 4, 2020

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Governments are looking to relax quarantine restrictions. They are now turning to new surveillance methods to track people infected. The goal is to identify those with whom they have been in contact. In... Read Article

Netflix Being Asked to Chill On Streaming Or Possibly Break The Internet

Rhett Butler

March 19, 2020

Tech, Tech News, Technology, Technology News | Digital Culture

Netflix is being urged by the European Union to stop showing video in high definition. They are asking other streaming platforms as well to prevent the internet from breaking under the strain of unprecedented ... Read Article

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Microsoft Reveal Some of the Specs and Features for Upcoming Xbox Series X Console

Jason Cordner

February 25, 2020

Hip Hop Entertainment | Hip Hop TV, Film and Video Games, Hip Hop Film and Movie News, Tech, Video Games

Are you ready for the next-gen war to begin? Looks like Microsoft is ready and is finally dropping some info about their new system. Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series X will not only have more graphics power... Read Article

Nia Long Says Netflix Movie 'A Fatal Affair' Lacked Diversity: 'Maybe Three People on the Crew Were Black'

Nia Long will Executive Produce Upcoming Flim ‘Dreams of the Moon,’ Starring her ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ daughter Eden Duncan-Smith

Symone Daniels

February 25, 2020

Digital Entertainment, Film, Her Source, Tech

Nia Long will star and executive produce the upcoming film, Dreams of the Moon, which is inspired by a true story set in 1971 and about an African American girl with dreams of becoming an astronaut. Accord... Read Article

Viral ‘Skullbreaker Challenge’ on TikTok Leaves Many Hospitalized

Mira B

February 24, 2020

Tech

A viral challenge on Tiktok has been the reason many victims have been admitted into the hospital. It involves two people tricking a third person and tripping them by kicking their legs out from under them. A ... Read Article

Federal Prosecutors Nab 10 People in NJ and Philadelphia in Social Media Quick Cash Scheme

Sha Be Allah

February 16, 2020

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Where did all of the people on Instagram promising to turn your $500 to $5000 go? In New Jersey and Philly, they're sitting behind bars. Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that criminal charges have be... Read Article

Xbox Announces Bounties of up to $20,000 for Gamers to Identify Bugs

Zoe Zorka

February 6, 2020

Tech, Tech News, Video Games

As Microsoft continues to roll out more and more games for its Xbox Live platform, the company is taking an unprecedented approach to identify and correct bugs. Rather than relying exclusively on programmers a... Read Article

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Rhett Butler

February 4, 2020

Tech

Everyone is attached to their mobile phones and one of the most used apps is Google Maps. The handy tool maneuvers many through traffic jams, however, now all may be as it seems. An artist in Berlin too... Read Article

Vine 2 Reboot “Byte” Officially Launches

Dylan Kemp

January 25, 2020

Tech, Tech News

Its been almost two years since Vine co-creator, Dom Hofmann, announced that he was working on a successor to the popular Vine app, which allowed users to upload 6-second videos for the world to see. Yeste... Read Article