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Which operating system is better, iOS or Android? The answer to this question depends on several factors: what system do your contacts use? Which one will be more suitable for your job? And where can you find the best experience with the apps you love the most? Longtime Android Police blogger Manuel Vonau wrote an extensive article explaining why iPhone apps are still better than Android apps, and why he keeps going back to his iPhone. As a longtime iPhone user, I can certainly understand how he reached this…

Holed up at home during the pandemic lockdown three years ago, 13-year-old Shreya Nallamothu was scrolling through social media when she noticed a pattern: Children even younger than her were the stars - dancing, cracking one-liners and being generally adorable. "It seemed innocuous to me at first," Nallamothu said. But as she watched more and more posts of kids pushing products or their mishaps going viral, she started to wonder: Who is looking out for them? "I realized that there's a lot of exploitation that can happen…

A Russian pro-Kremlin blogger who was known for his support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was killed in an explosion on Sunday that authorities believe was inside a gift. Vladlen Tatarsky, whose real name is Maksim Fomin, was speaking at a cafe in St. Petersburg for the pro-war group Cyber Front Z when witnesses say they saw a woman give Tatarsky a small look-alike statue before moving to the back of the room.Russian Court Says Meta Is "Extremist Organization"“This woman sat at our table. I saw her from the back as she…

A multimillion-dollar verdict in a defamation case brought by Cardi B has been upheld in federal court.As first reported by Billboard, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday it had rejected an appeal effort from Tasha K. The gossip writer had previously argued that the verdict in the much-publicized case had been reached without enough evidence.With the court now saying she didn’t adequately present that argument, nor did her legal team sufficiently argue that certain evidence had been…

Photo: Ramon Carretero (Shutterstock)A Chinese food blogger has been fined $18,500 for cooking and eating a great white shark in a video posted online. The blogger, who goes by the name Tizi was identified by officials as Jin, who said she had bought the shark on an Alibaba-owned shopping site Taobao for 7,700 yuan ($1,141). Authorities said in a statement that Jin had bought the shark in April 2022 and posted the video on the social media platform Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) and Kuaishou. The videos quickly…

Google's Threat Analysis Group has terminated thousands of accounts associated with a group known as "Dragonbridge" or "Spamouflage Dragon" that disseminated pro-Chinese disinformation on various platforms.According to the tech giant, Dragonbridge gets new Google Accounts from bulk account sellers, and at times they have even used accounts previously used by financially motivated actors repurposed for posting disinformation videos and blogs, reports BleepingComputer.Moreover, the report said that Google last year shut…

When federal agents kicked in his door one icy morning last November, Joerg Arnu was still asleep. Roused by deafening bangs and shouts, the 60-year-old retired software developer stumbled out of bed to find a crowd of unfamiliar men in military gear standing in his foyer. At least one of the half dozen men, he remembers, was visibly armed and pointing a gun in his direction. Another was holding a riot shield. “This is the FBI,” one yelled. “Put your hands against the wall!” Less than a minute later, Arnu was being…

Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images)Earlier this month, agents from both the FBI and the U.S. Air Force raided multiple homes belonging to a man who runs a little-known blog about Area 51. That man, Joerg Arnu, said the swarm of federal agents in riot gear busted into his primary residence, handcuffed him, then marched him outside to wait in the freezing cold while they rifled through his apartment and took pretty much every piece of electronic equipment that he owned. So far, the government has been pretty tight-lipped about…

Julie Powell, the food blogger best known for her cooking memoir, Julie & Julia, which inspired a film starring Meryl Streep, has died at the age of 49.Her husband, Eric Powell, confirmed to the New York Times that she died of cardiac arrest caused by heart arrhythmia at their home in Olivebridge in upstate New York on 26 October.Powell rose to prominence in 2002 when, approaching her 30th birthday as “a secretary who lives with her husband, three cats and a python above a diner on a barren street in Long Island…

Nicki Minaj has filed a lawsuit against a woman named Marley Green after she alleged that the “Super Freaky” rapper is addicted to cocaine.As first reported by TMZ, Minaj and her legal team filed the lawsuit against Green, who discusses celebrity gossip as “Nosey Heaux,” following the release of a video in which she made the claims. According to the suit, Green allegedly said that Minaj is “shoving all this cocaine, shoving in all this cocaine up her nose.”Green added “allegedly,” before backtracking. “But we all know…