- President pardons ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski
- The reset of presidential Twitter accounts
- A notable drop in misinformation attributed to Twitter's Trump ban
- Google cuts off another AI expert in the company
- Google Research report shows its accomplishments in AI
- Google tests blocking news from search in Australia
- youtube-dl reinstated thanks to the EFF
- U.S. judge in Facebook antitrust lawsuits sets March, April deadlines for responses
- Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law
- Cory Doctorow on the Deplatforming of the (former) President
- TikTok users make Bridgerton, the Musical
- Discuss 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem "The Hill We Climb"
- Biden Has a Peloton Bike. That Raises Issues at the White House
- Biden SEC pick is no stranger to crypto
- Trump administration adds China's Comac, Xiaomi to Chinese military blacklist
- In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders
- Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol
- Developer Makes Interactive Map of Parler Videos From Capitol Hill Riots
- MIT review has a guide to ethical online investigation
- Bernie mitten memes!
- Chrome 88 rolling out with a number of changes
- Gmail now lets you resize Google Chat, Rooms in the web sidebar
- Google cuts off acceess for Chromium browsers to sync, other services
- The Google Play Store adds icons to show chart position changes
- Google rolling out Winter Seasonal Savings to Nest Thermostats
- Google previewing new Nest Hub alarms with more customization, tones, and 'Sunrise'
- Google Maps making streets, nature much more detailed
- Google Store stops selling the two-year-old Pixel USB-C earbuds
- Stadia's new State Share features lands with the release of Hitman 3
- The Complete List of Trump's Twitter Insults (2015-2021)
- Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits
- Trump seeks to curb foreign cyber meddling on last day in office
- Pocket Casts is up for sale nearly three years after acquisition by public radio consortium
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- Stacey: $10 GE grow light
- Jeff: Digital reading exploded during the pandemic
- Jeff: Netflix has reached 200 million customers
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