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by: BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated Press Posted: Apr 29, 2021 / 03:31 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 29, 2021 / 04:26 PM CDT FILE – In this Feb. 8, 2018, file photo, the logo for Twitter is displayed above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Like its bigger tech peers, Twitter posted stronger-than-expected results for the first quarter on Thursday, April 29, 2021. But its lukewarm revenue outlook sent shares tumbling after hours. The San Francisco-based company earned $68 million, or 8 cents per share, in the January-March period. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File) Like its bigger tech peers, Twitter posted stronger-than-expected results for the first quarter on Thursday. But its lukewarm outlook sent shares tumbling after hours. The San Francisco-based company earned $68 million, or 8 cents per share, in the January-March period. That’s up from a loss of $8.4 million, or 1 cent per share, a year earlier. Revenue grew 28% to $1.04 billion. Analysts, on average, were expecting a loss of 2 cents per share on revenue of $1.03 billion, according to a poll by FactSet. In a tumultuous start to the year, Twitter permanently suspended its arguably most powerful and polarizing user…

Image from the “Save Bear Creek Park/PSA Video” posted to vimeo.com. City says the project aims to relieve ‘over-saturated’ traffic on 88th and 72nd Avenues Surrey-area opponents of the city’s proposal to extend 84th Avenue have created a video to make their case why the project shouldn’t happen. City hall is pitching a plan to connect 84th Avenue between King George Boulevard and 140th Street in Newton, on the south end of Bear Creek Park and along a hydro right-of-way. In opposition, a 10-minute “Save Bear Creek Park/PSA video” was posted to the VIMEO platform on Sunday (April 25), with drone footage and interviews with several people, including park users and environmentalists. (Story continues below video) Save Bear Creek Park | PSA Video from LG Digital on Vimeo. The “Friends of Bear Creek Park” group has launched a petition on friendsofbearcreekpark-forceofnature.nationbuilder.com. A virtual open house for the “84 Avenue improvements” is now posted as a 20-page PDF on surrey.ca, along with an online survey. • READ MORE: Opposition mounts anew to Surrey’s plan for 84 Ave. at south end of Bear Creek Park. (Story continues below Facebook post) A corporate report about the project is expected to be brought before…

The Electoral Commission will have the right to demand emails and WhatsApp messages from the Prime Minister and key members of his staff as part of the investigation into how he funded the refurbishment of the Downing Street flat.The central focus of the probe will be the question of whether or not Conservative donors paid for the overhaul before being refunded by the party or by Boris Johnson personally. But Opposition politicians are pushing the watchdog to ensure that its scope is as wide as possible, to ensure that all questions about the controversy are eventually answered.Under the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009, the Electoral Commission has wide-ranging powers to demand any documents which may pertain to the alleged offences which are under investigation. Issuing a “disclosure notice” compels the recipient to hand over all the information – whatever form it is held in – relevant to the probe.News and analysis, direct from Westminster to your inboxIt can also force individuals to attend interviews, with criminal sanctions for those who refuse. As well as the Prime Minister, those likely to be grilled include Dominic Cummings, the donor David Brownlow who was proposed as the head of a Downing Street…

In what looks to be a response to the rising popularity of Clubhouse, and audio social more broadly, Instagram is rolling out two new features for IG Live - the capacity to mute your audio during a live-stream, and the option to switch off your video during the live broadcast. You can see the new controls at the bottom of the top left video panel here - now, participants within a stream will be able to simply tap to switch off their audio or video (along with the capacity to add stickers and effects and flip their camera). When the camera is switched off, that participants' screen will revert to their profile image (top right in the second screenshot above). Which does look very similar to the Clubhouse-style profile bubbles, and through IG live broadcasts, with up to three other participants, it could somewhat replicate the Clubhouse type audio social experience within Instagram, broadcasting your conversation to your audience within the app, via the top of feed Stories bubble - which could hold more appeal to those who've built their audience in Instagram, as opposed to establishing a new crowd via a new audio app. As per Instagram: "We want to build…

A video recently circulated on social media appears to show a group of Lehigh Valley students completing the viral “George Floyd Challenge,” a social media trend started last year on SnapChat in which teenagers, predominantly white, reenact Floyd’s death. In the video, a boy mockingly moans “I can’t breathe” as another kneels on his neck on a patch of grass, the latter’s right fist raised in the air. “Hey, lookit, guys” a girl’s voice says, punctuated by laughs. The boy kneeling on the other’s neck turns and looks at the camera. The video, as well as a photo showing two boys reenacting Floyd’s death, have been widely circulated on social media. An investigation by officials at both the Parkland and Southern Lehigh school districts found that the images weren’t created on school property or with school devices, leaving them without the power to discipline students. However, one Lehigh Valley civil rights leader is calling for criminal charges to be filed against the students involved and for school officials to inform the community about steps they are taking against racism. “Examples should be made of these students,” Bethlehem NAACP President Esther Lee said Thursday. “I don’t know which school district the…

Former Gramercy Tavern pastry cook Lauren Tran never expected her assortments of ube and coconut mousse chiffon cakes, longan macarons, and bánh bò nướng — a pandan-flavored tapioca and rice flour pastry — to appeal beyond her social circle. But when the recent pastry school graduate’s bánh boxes, a mix of Vietnamese desserts and French pastries, started selling out in minutes each week on Instagram, it turned her previous life plan on its head. “I was able to lean into who I am as a Vietnamese-American woman,” she says. Now, Tran is looking to translate that success into a business, Bánh by Lauren, that honors Vietnamese desserts with the respect and regard she sees given European and Japanese baked goods. Amid the endless stream of destruction that the pandemic blasted at the restaurant industry, pop-ups started by laid-off workers quietly shone as a tiny bright light in the grim darkness. Stuck at home, with little hope for full employment, the people who once cooked or served everywhere from fast-casual chains to Michelin-starred dining rooms turned to the best resource they had to stay busy and make some money: their own knowledge, heritage, and creativity. The rise of pop-ups — representing…

The Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with the First Amendment claims of a former high school cheerleader who argued that she could not be punished by her school for posting a profanity-laced caption on Snapchat when she was off school grounds.The justices at times seemed sympathetic to the plight of the cheerleader in the case at hand, but searched for a workable standard — especially in the age of social media — that could shape the free speech rights of some 50 million public school children while also allow the schools to step in for speech that occurs off campus or online that could amount to a substantial disruption of the school's mission or an example of bullying or a threat. "F--- school f--- softball f--- cheer f--- everything" Brandi Levy, then 14, wrote in 2017. She was reacting to the fact that as a junior varsity cheerleader she had failed to get a spot on the varsity squad at Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.When school officials learned of the outburst, Levy was suspended from the JV team for having violated school rules. But her lawyers sued, alleging the school had violated her freedom of speech. Levy…

The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the 8 Best Security Training LinkedIn Learning Courses to consider if you’re looking to grow your skills. Originally Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning is LinkedIn’s own video course website. Each course in its catalog is taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. For our audience, the editors of Solutions Review compiled this list of the 8 Best Security Training LinkedIn Learning Courses available now. Click GO TO TRAINING to learn more and register for these Security Training LinkedIn Learning courses. Creating a Security Awareness Program Description: By implementing a security awareness program, you can turn people into assets—not fragile targets. A truly robust and mature security program makes educating employees a top priority in a company’s overall multilayered approach. In this course, Lauren Zink shows how to develop and implement a successful, ongoing security awareness program that’s so much more than just one phishing simulation or an annual required training. True security awareness necessitates year-round, relevant, and tailored training and communications that create an overall cultural shift you can measure. Through this course, discover how to sketch out your program plan, create a budget, leverage creative approaches for keeping your…

Popular Tumblr-inspired social media platform Pillowfort was back online on Thursday after a three-month shutdown over potential security concerns. The site, which is available to pre-registered users as of Thursday afternoon, is an NSFW-friendly microblogging website where users can post images, text, and video posts to their followers. Users can also join communities for different subject matters, from pornographic artwork to Animal Crossing. “Pillowfort aims to be a sort of hybrid of your favorite blogging websites—keeping the strengths of these platforms while compensating for their shortcomings,” the site’s homepage reads. Pillowfort first garnered interest as a Kickstarter project in 2018. After Tumblr banned NSFW content later that year, Pillowfort became an attractive alternative for adult artists, fandom communities, and LGBTQ members. Initially, Pillowfort launched public registrations on Jan. 25, sparking widespread interest on Twitter. However, users quickly found a series of HTML exploits that “could potentially allow cross-site scripting” attacks, one security expert told Motherboard. Pillowfort closed user access shortly after and began a three-month process to fix the site’s vulnerabilities. “Since then our developers, with the assistance of an experienced security consultant, reviewed & revised the entire platform to have a more holistic approach to site security,” a post…

I often have people tell me that LinkedIn is not right for them I’m always surprised when I hear this. In my last article, I shared that LinkedIn is my primary new business channel and that I often have prospects contacting me to see if we can work together. And I showed how easy it is to gain results in 30 minutes or less. But many people give me objections that they believe are valid reasons for not using LinkedIn. Let’s deal with some of the most common ones. LinkedIn doesn’t take as much time as many people think A sales person can get good results on LinkedIn in three hours a week or less. Think of all the travel time you had before Coronavirus. You could use that to win results with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is not costly I use LinkedIn a LOT. But I still use a free account. I spend £80/$100 on scheduling software but that’s not necessary for the average user. That is my only cost. You don’t have to be technical to use LinkedIn There are no complicated software integrations. I don’t A/B test. I don’t run complicated spreadsheets. I like to keep things simple! You…