Twitter has announced that it’ll start “winding down” its legacy verified program and removing “legacy verified checkmarks” starting on April 1st, and is telling users to subscribe to its Blue…
Day: March 23, 2023
San Francisco DJ Jeffrey Vandergrift found dead a month after he went missing
Jeffrey Vandergrift, a popular DJ for a San Francisco radio station, was found dead nearly a month after he went missing, officials said. Vandergrift, known as JV on WiLD 94.9,…
Kevin McCarthy met Ashli Babbitt’s mom ahead of GOP visit with Jan. 6 prisoners
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy met Thursday with the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the Jan. 6 rioter shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer, one month after McCarthy…
Grindr sends Egypt users a warning after alleged entrapments and arrests
Grindr, the world’s most popular gay dating app, sent a warning to all of its users in Egypt this week following reports that dozens of LGBTQ people had been arrested…
House fails to override Biden’s first veto
A new administration rule for retirement plans will be implemented as planned after the House failed to override President Joe Biden’s first veto on Thursday. In a 219-200 vote, the…
Congress seems more determined to ban TikTok than ever
TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, seemed to arrive at the Capitol well-prepared. Taking his seat before dozens of House Energy and Commerce Committee members Thursday, he opened a packet of…
Binance employees, volunteers tell users how to evade China crypto ban
Binance is the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, handling $490 billion of spot trading volumes in March 2022. Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Binance is the world’s largest crypto…
What Disney’s Toy Story 5, Frozen 3, & Zootopia 2 Could Be About
Both Walt Disney Animation and Pixar’s early-2020s slates have consisted of original movies, but that’s looking to change as the decade goes on. At last year’s D23 Expo, Pixar announced…
