Police say that at least two individuals have barricaded themselves inside an Oakville residence. Source: CP24 68 total views
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson knows a thing or two about unleashing developers. His company has garnered a market cap of almost $60 billion by creating a set of tools to make it easy for programmers to insert a whole host of communications functionality into an application with a couple of lines of code. Given that background, perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Lawson has written a book called “Ask Your Developer,” which hit the stores this week. Lawson’s basic philosophy is that if you can build it, you should. Lawson’s basic philosophy in the book is that if you …
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One day after the election, Bobi Wine, the top rival to the incumbent president, sounded an alert from his home, saying, “We are under siege.” Source: New York Times 34 total views
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Block Party, an anti-harassment startup that aims to help folks feel safer on social media founded by Tracy Chou, launched today. Currently only available for Twitter, Block Party helps people filter out the content they don’t want to see and into what Block Party calls the Lockout Folder. That’s where all of the filtered-out content lives in the event you want to review it later. “We think it’s important to still acknowledge that these people exist,” Chou told me. If you pretend like it doesn’t exist, you might miss out on useful information or genuine connections. “There’s a lot of …
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Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge In addition to revamped MacBook Pros that ditch the Touch Bar and resurrect MagSafe, Apple is also said to be planning to announce its long-awaited iMac redesign this year — and a pair …
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Voters are heading to the polls in Ward 22 today to select a new city councillor in the first Toronto election held during a lockdown. Source: CP24 34 total views
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Investigators are asking for the public’s help in locating a federal offender wanted on a Canada-wide warrant. Source: CP24 34 total views
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A screenshot from Hitman 3. | Image: IO Interactive Hitman 3 and the World of Assassination trilogy launch on January 20th, and at launch, Google Stadia players will be able to share access to distinct points within a game thanks …
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would run out of doses by next week. Source: New York Times 40 total views
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On the day a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, a worried GitHub employee warned his co-workers in the D.C. area to be safe. After making a comment in Slack saying, “stay safe homies, Nazis are about,” a fellow employee took offense, saying that type of rhetoric wasn’t good for work, the former employee told me. Two days later, he was fired, with a human relations representative citing a “pattern of behavior that is not conducive to company policy” as the rationale for his termination, he told me. In an interview with TechCrunch, the now-former employee said …
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