Report: ByteDance Isolating TikTok From Rest of Chinese Operations Over Espionage Concerns

China’s ByteDance, owner of wildly popular (and often deeply annoying) music app TikTok, has moved to segregate much of the app’s operations from the rest of its business in a bid to convince the U.S. government user data is safe from the prying eyes of Chinese spies, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

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Apple Bows to Pressure and Lists Crimea as Part of Russia in Maps

Earlier today, Moscow-based BBC journalist Will Vernon noticed that Apple appears to have quietly ceded to Russia’s stance on Crimea by redrawing national borders on the Russian version of its Maps app and labeling the region as “Russia.” When viewed from the US, Crimea is listed simply as “Crimea” and no home country…

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When She Got Cancer, She Gave Her Boyfriend An ‘Out.’ Then He Proposed.

After a surprise proposal on her last day of chemo, wedding vendors offered their services to the couple free of charge.

The Echo Flex is Amazon’s Alexa gateway drug

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Dota 2 ‘The Outlanders’ Update Is Huge

Dota 2 is the most-played game on Steam in the MOBA genre. It is no shock that the game is available for free and offers a big learning curve while making it addictive to a gamer.

Even though Valve is known to push a minor or balanced update for their games, Dota 2’s new update might say a different story.

‘The Outlanders’ update on Dota 2 is shockingly huge. Overall, it adds two new heroes – Snapfire and Void Spirit.

But, it involves way more changes that you could ever expect.

The exact technical update is known as the 7.23 gameplay update which contains a lot of changes to the mechanics and items available along with a neutral unit balance.

If you play Dota 2, you probably know what the changes are – but for some, it may be the best update ever and on the other hand, some gamers seem to be annoyed by the update.

Of course, the changes that you can spot in their official blog post is a long list of tweaks, the opinion on how it affects/improves the game is definitely subjective.

You can also find a new neutral building type outposts as an enhancement to the previous version. The update brings in a massive change, if you are interested to learn the whole thing, we suggest you check out the official changelog.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 heads to Steam next week

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Mark Zuckerberg Basically Only Invited White Men to His Conversation Series, the Result Is a Grueling Endurance Test

Mark Zuckerberg cares deeply about the voice of the people, so this year, he invited a bunch of white dudes to discuss that and other Big Stuff in six pre-recorded conversations. This was Zuckerberg’s 2019 “personal challenge”: A series of “public discussions” aimed, in his words, to “engage more in some of these…

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