Tech CEOs From Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alphabet To Testify Before Congress

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSeveral high-profile accounts on Twitter were hijacked by cryptocurrency scammers Wednesday, including those of Kanye West, Apple, Mike Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Uber, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates.The hackers’ tweets have since been deleted.

Naya Rivera saved the life of her beloved four-year-old son Josey before she tragically drowned in Southern California’s Lake Piru. At the July 13 news conference announcing that her body had been recovered and identified, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub revealed that Josey told investigators that his mom pushed him onto the safety of the boat before slipping underwater.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerSocial media giant Facebook is discussing whether to impose a ban on political ads in its network before the US election this November, according to news reports.Any potential ban has not been finalized and is merely being discussed, according to the reports.

A new royal biography is out, and it contains some surprising claims about Kate Middleton’s intervention before Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s marriage. Apparently, the Duchess of Cambridge, 38, may have stepped in to “warn” Harry, 35, about things moving too fast in his relationship with Meghan, 38, long before the pair got married in May 2018 at St. George’s chapel.

Johnny Depp‘s exes, Winona Ryder and Vanessa Paradis, are coming to his defense.

Fiona Apple, Fleet Foxes, Kim Gordon, Deerhoof, Cat Power and Grizzly Bear have lent their backing to the campaign, organised by the NOISE FOR NOW initiative and Seeding Sovereignty in response to the coronavirus epidemic.For every purchase of a protective face mask or bandana via NOISE FOR NOW, one will be donated to the Indigenous Impact Community Care Initiative to be distributed to pueblos and reservations most impacted by the coronavirus.In addition, a cash donation will be made to Seeding

Ted Johnson Facebook said that it has removed more than 100 accounts and pages linked to Roger Stone and his associates for violating their policy against coordinated inauthentic behavior.Stone, who has longtime ties to President Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin serving a 40 month prison sentence next week.

Facebook grapples with an ad boycott spearheaded by several civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, over the company’s content moderation policies. The #StopHateForProfit campaign, as it’s been dubbed, has accused Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of allowing extremists to promote violence, thanks to Facebook’s laissez faire moderation policies in comparison to other tech companies.

Zach Braff paid tribute to his best friend Nick Cordero after the Broadway star lost his months-long battle with the novel coronavirus.“Nick Cordero passed at 11:40am today with his wife and mother by his side,” the Scrubs alum, 45, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, July 5, alongside a black-and-white photo of Cordero and his widow, Amanda Kloots. “I have honestly never known a kinder person.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorBig Tech’s four biggest executives may soon be in the congressional hot seat, with the CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google set to appear before a House Judiciary Committee hearing as part of its antitrust investigation.Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Apple’s Tim Cook, and Google’s Sundar Pichai (who also is chief exec of parent Alphabet), are scheduled to testify at the hearing.

If you’ve been thinking about getting an Apple Watch, now is the time because Amazon is currently selling them for the lowest price ever!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe New York Times ended its relationship with Apple News, saying the distribution deal doesn’t fit with the newspaper’s direct-to-consumer business model.As of Monday (June 29), articles from the Times no longer appeared in the Apple News app.“Core to a healthy model between The Times and the platforms is a direct path for sending those readers back into our environments, where we control the presentation of our report, the relationships with our readers and the