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Tuesday, August 03, 2021

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Citizen's New Service Helps Paying Users Summon the Cops
The crime-tracking app is charging $20 per month to give subscribers access to their own virtual security service.
5 hours ago
Blizzard President Departs as Workers Demand Systemic Change
Nearly a week after Activision Blizzard employees walked out to protest alleged discrimination at the company, executive J. Allen Brack has left.
9 hours ago
France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?
The French Competition Agency has hit the company with $855 million in fines this year. The money is meaningless—but the changes could be profound.
15 hours ago

Passenger Arrives Taped to a Seat and Is Charged With Assaulting Flight Attendants
Maxwell Berry, 22, of Norwalk, Ohio, punched a Frontier Airlines flight attendant and groped two others on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami, the authorities said.
3 hours ago
Passenger Arrives Taped to His Seat After Assault of 3 Flight Attendants
Maxwell Berry, 22, of Norwalk, Ohio, punched a Frontier Airlines flight attendant and groped two others on a flight from Philadelphia to Miami, the authorities said.
5 hours ago
After Uproar, Matt Damon Tries to Clarify Comments on Anti-Gay Slur
The actor was recently quoted as saying that he had decided to “retire” the word his daughter calls the “f-slur” after she objected to a joke he made.
6 hours ago

Covid: Vaccines to be offered to 16 and 17 year olds
More than one million teenagers would be included in a new roll-out if ministers accept expert advice.
2 hours ago
Indyref2: Why has the campaign for another vote gone quiet?
Boris Johnson heads to Scotland this week with no sign an independence referendum will be soon.
3 hours ago
Long-lasting Covid-19 symptoms rare in children
Children who become ill with coronavirus mostly recover in less than a week, research suggests.
4 hours ago