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According to Engadget (via Bloomberg), TikTok has 10,000 content moderators, and the lawsuit states that these people are exposed to lots of nasty content like child pornography and animal mutilation. “Plaintiff has trouble sleeping, and when she does sleep, she has horrific nightmares,” according to the lawsuit. Frazier is now seeking compensation for psychological injuries and a court order to force TikTok and ByteDance to provide the necessary support to moderators....

Some of these apps you’ve probably heard of, such as Slickdeals, Groupon, and Honey, for example. Those three have been advertised quite a bit over the year, and are quite popular in the US. Speaking of which, the vast majority of these apps are region-locked, to the US. All of the apps below are also free to use, by the way. That being said, if you’re interested in checking out some coupon apps, read on....

In the list below, you’ll find 10 of the very best gift-giving Android apps, well, these are at least our favorite ones. The list is actually quite diverse, as some apps will help you buy gifts, others will provide you with ideas, and so on. We’ve tried to be as diverse as possible here, just to keep it interesting. Do note that these apps are not listed in any specific order....

We did our best to select a wide variety of wallpaper applications to show you. So, no matter if you prefer AMOLED wallpapers, live wallpapers, abstract, or minimal ones, you should find something for yourself here. Wallpapers can really make a difference when it comes to your smartphone setup, as they cover the back of your home screen, and the wallpaper you choose you’re bound to look at every time you unlock your phone....

1. Soosee If you have any food allergies or there are some ingredients that you simply want to avoid, then Soosee may be the app for you. After you install the app, you can customize what type of ingredients you want to keep an eye out for simply by adding a list of items in the app. There are 30 different categories that can be further customized and the app can also scan in 18 different languages....

Online collaborative tools are the most popular of them as they help in increasing business agility. Let’s explore how exactly they make it happen. Collaboration tools Online collaboration tools are unique platforms or software designed to help business operations. The tools establish a streamlined work process that enhances communication and eases task management for in-office employees and remote workers. The collaboration tools are also referred to as team collaboration tools as they assist teams to work together under a single goal....

It’s a good idea to have one next to your bed, as well as one in your car and one at your desk (either at your home office or the actual office, or both). That way you can charge when your phone gets low and not have to worry about it. In this list of the best USB-C cables, we have rounded up a number of USB-C to USB-C cables, as well as USB-A to USB-C cables....

Twitter Blue is not available for new accounts Twitter launched a revamped Twitter Blue service yesterday, throwing the coveted verification checkmark as an added perk. Perhaps, Elon Musk launched it, as the change was his plan. “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” he had tweeted days after taking over the company last month. He announced a revamp for the verification system, offering the “blue tick” to anyone who subscribes to the Twitter Blue service, rather than keeping it as a tool to identify verified accounts on the platform....

Elon Musk has been trying to buy Twitter for some time, and now, things are in a weird place with the deal. It’s been put on hold a few times, and now Elon is at odds with Twitter due to the number of bot accounts on the platform. Twitter had to lay off about 100 employees The drama is ongoing, and it’s having an effect on the day-to-day activities at the social media company....

According to Revue’s announcement, all paid Revue subscriptions will be set to cancel at the end of their billing cycle on December 20, 2022. This is to ensure that there’s no active subscription when the service itself goes away in January next year. If you run a paid newsletter, you can download your subscriber list, past newsletter issues, and analytics ahead of that deadline from here. This data will not be available after January 18, 2023....

What does “Unmentioning” do for Twitter Mentions? As may be expected from the branding here, Twitter ensured that the feature itself is straightforward. But not necessarily easy to describe. Twitter is billing Unmentioning as a way for users to get back some peace of mind by removing themselves from mentions. For clarity, when users are “mentioned,” they’re effectively tagged in a post via their Twitter handle. The handle shows up as a link that can be interacted with....

However, this also means you could be mid-way through reading a tweet when the timeline refreshes and the tweet disappears suddenly. The more users are engaged in a tweet, the more chances of this happening. Twitter knows that this is not ideal and could be a “frustrating experience” to users. There have been numerous complaints regarding this issue. It is now looking to finally address this longstanding complaint. The company hasn’t provided many details on how this would work but said it will roll out updates to the app in the coming months that will keep your timeline fresh without the tweets disappearing from the view....

Twitter launches Super Follows Super Follows on Twitter are $2.99, $4.99, or $9.99 a month subscriptions. Twitter users can see the pricing and paid offerings of an account by tapping the Super Follow button on the profile. If they’re interested, they can tap again to subscribe to that account. They will then start seeing subscriber-only content in their Timeline. Users who have subscribed to a creator, i.e. Super Followed an account, will be highlighted by a Super Followers badge....

Right now, Twitter is in a bit of a weird spot because it is now privately owned by one of the richest men on the planet. So far, he has been running Twitter (some would say he’s running it into the ground). The eccentric billionaire posted a poll to Twitter recently asking if people wanted him to step down as CEO of Twitter. The results were in favor of him leaving....

According to slides shared by Musk, new user signups are at an all-time high on Twitter. Over a seven-day period that ended on November 16th, the company added two million new users on average every day. That’s 66 percent more than the average new users the platform gained during the same period last year. Time spent on the platform also reached an all-time high around the same week. People used Twitter for almost eight billion minutes every day, a 30 percent increase from last year, Additionally, Musk revealed that Twitter’s mDAUs (monetizable daily active users) have passed the quarter billion mark under his reign....

Twitter will be able to tell you if you’re shadowbanned Musk tweeted out the news by saying that “Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status”. He says that you’ll clearly be able to tell if you’re shadowbanned, the reason why, and how can you appeal if you are. So, what does “shadowbanned” means? Well, it all depends on the platform you get shadowbanned on....

The Ulefone Armor X10 is smaller than the Armor 12 Ulefone did its best to make this phone not look like your regular smartphone, in other words, it paid attention to its design. That is why it decided to borrow the Armor 12’s design, but make this device smaller. The device measures 158.2 x 76.7 x 14.6mm, and weighs 256 grams. It features a 5.45-inch HD+ (1440 x 720) LCD display, and that’s a 60Hz panel....

Unisoc is a Chinese semiconductor company that produces processing units and different kinds of chips for smartphones. Now, the company has come up with a security vulnerability. As per the report, the vulnerability is available in modem firmware and affects 4G and 5G Unisoc chipsets. CheckPoint Research refers to the issue as CVE-2022-20210, which they found while scanning Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message handlers. The vulnerability can neutralize or block the cellular communication capabilities of the device....

This is also the latest brand deal for the game to make an appearance. Square Enix also has deals with Sony for the PlayStation version of Marvel’s Avengers where players will get the exclusive Spider-Man character, as well as timed exclusives on some costumes. In the Verizon deal, subscribers will have a chance to play the game well before its launch on September 4. This will be in an upcoming limited time beta....

Verizon users on the mmWave 5G hotspot plans will have a data cap People on Verizon’s fast internet plans were enjoying unlimited data thus far. This means that they could use as much of the company’s mmWave 5G as they wanted. The company’s mmWave network allowed phones to access as much as 800MHz of data at once. With the company moving its plans to the C-Band, things are going to change....