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The main message of the protesters was that they want to see accountability. NAUGATUCK, Conn. — Naugatuck High School students marched from the school to the town green Wednesday afternoon, in response to racist Snapchat messages that surfaced last week. The messages were allegedly sent by police chief Steven Hunt and associate principal at Naugatuck High School Johnna Hunt's daughter. The messages referenced police shootings against Black people.  "The hurt I felt seeing those messages, seeing them broadcast. Minutes later they were on everybody's Snapchat stories," said Atlanta Atkinson, a junior at Naugatuck High School. The messages were sent two years ago. The parents say it was when their daughter was 13. However, people at the protest said to them, it did not take away from the gravity of the words that were shared. "When I was 13, I heard things like that said to me. When I was 13 I felt the impact of those words. It doesn't matter if it was two years ago it doesn't matter if she was 13 when I was 8 people were saying racially insensitive comments to me," said Atkinson. "I had to explain to my six and seven-year old kids what racism…

Today at 9 p.m. PT/12 a.m. ET on Shacknews Twitch, the potential conclusion of the biggest Bomberman 64 stream in the universe and our Gold Card charity challenge! Let's unwind after a long Wednesday full of gaming news and kick back with skankcore64, my journey to beat all the Nintendo 64 games released here in North America. Join me and do it for Shacknews, live on our Twitch channel, tonight at 9 p.m. PT / 12 a.m. ET shortly after the Stevetendo Show! Episode 32 - The end of Bomberman 64? Our last adventure through the hue inspired zones of Bomberman 64 raised the ante quite a bit with the introduction of the Black Fortress. The first level in this final zone took me quite a bit of time to complete with much frustration at first, but eventually with speedrun like precision, I adopted that highway and cleaned it up for good! I only missed the timed Gold Card by 8.34 seconds, so I gotta go back to try for it again. If you are just joining the show for this game, I'm currently on a charity challenge to collect the Gold Cards hidden within, each one worth a dollar for…

DuckDuckGo, Ask Jeeves, Yandex, Swisscows, Bing - the search engines we could be forced to use if Google delivers on their threat to quit Australia. How likely is that? Messaging service WhatsApp sees an Old Testament scale exodus. Plus, Donald Trump may not be President or on most social media platforms - will that make it harder to track his influence online?Guests: Sarah Moran, Founder, Girl Geek Academy @GirlGeekAcademy & Jonno Seidler, Creative Lead, Unyoked @jonnoseidler Broadcast: Thu 28 Jan 2021, 11:00am

January 27, 2021Biometric solutions provider ID R&D and Wittybots by SimpleTech, a robotic process automation (RPA) and conversation management platform, have announced the launch of the first in-app voice biometrics authentication solution for WhatsApp for Business.The new feature means that businesses that choose to use it can have a customer authenticate their identity by simply tapping the microphone button and recording a short voice message that is then sent for authentication.The remote authentication industry has been experiencing a surge in popularity over the past several months due in large part to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the various measures that have been put in to place to slow the spread of the virus. Though necessary, these measures have led to an increase in the need for secure remote authentication due to the growth in online traffic as more people are working from home while also generally spending more time online.The WhatsApp Business API is used by companies to do things like answer questions, send delivery updates, provide receipts, and send boarding passes to customers, and is relied upon by a number of enterprises in the banking, insurance, healthcare, and retail markets. Because the API doesn’t have its own way of…

Since the October 2020 inception of their patented "Beat Smash" series, Brownies & Lemonade have served up a buffet of must-see music production content to satiate the cravings of electronic music fans unable to attend festivals. The show, which invites the game's brightest artists to the brand's Twitch channel for a head-to-head beat battle, has surged in popularity in recent months.Following what was perhaps the biggest episode to date with San Holo and What So Not, Brownies & Lemonade have now one-upped themselves. The first "Beat Smash" episode of 2021 will feature none other than pioneering bass music producers Flux Pavilion and Feed Me.Needless to say, the episode is a must-watch for fans of EDM, regardless of genre preference. These are two of the most trailblazing minds in electronic music, and one of them just dropped what could end up being the top album of the year and a surefire Grammy contender.You can tune in tonight at 5PM PT (8PM ET) via Brownies & Lemonade's Twitch channel below.

SAN FRANCISCO — A New Jersey man arrested after authorities say he was caught posing as a teen boy online and cyberstalking a Bay Area girl after she gave him sexually explicit videos has pleaded guilty to two counts, including one that carries a minimum of five years. Barry David Goldberg was 55 last June when federal prosecutors in Northern California extradited him to the Bay Area to face the charges. He pleaded guilty to possessing child porn and to cyberstalking Wednesday afternoon. A sentencing date has not yet been set. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer confirmed Goldberg understood he faced a minimum of five years in prison before accepting the plea. Goldberg has been out of jail since June 30, 2020. According to the FBI, Goldberg — posing as Ryan — convinced a 15-year-old girl from the Bay Area to send him videos of herself “engaging in sexually explicit conduct.” FBI Special Agent Michael P. Nicholas wrote in the affidavit that “an individual” — later identified as Goldberg — then started blackmailing the girl, prompting federal authorities to open a “sextortion” investigation. “The individual eventually began to send MV long, ranting messages in which he threatened to or pretended…

SAN FRANCISCO — A New Jersey man arrested after authorities say he was caught posing as a teen boy online and cyberstalking a Bay Area girl after she gave him sexually explicit videos has pleaded guilty to two counts, including one that carries a minimum of five years. Barry David Goldberg was 55 last June when federal prosecutors in Northern California extradited him to the Bay Area to face the charges. He pleaded guilty to possessing child porn and to cyberstalking Wednesday afternoon. A sentencing date has not yet been set. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer confirmed Goldberg understood he faced a minimum of five years in prison before accepting the plea. Goldberg has been out of jail since June 30, 2020. According to the FBI, Goldberg — posing as Ryan — convinced a 15-year-old girl from the Bay Area to send him videos of herself “engaging in sexually explicit conduct.” FBI Special Agent Michael P. Nicholas wrote in the affidavit that “an individual” — later identified as Goldberg — then started blackmailing the girl, prompting federal authorities to open a “sextortion” investigation. “The individual eventually began to send MV long, ranting messages in which he threatened to or pretended…

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- A 20-year-old man was sentenced to four years in prison for one count of child molesting, according to court records.K-Chawn Price was sentenced to 9 years in prison, with 5 years suspended on one count of child molesting. He will also serve 2 years probation.Price was sentenced on Wednesday after the court accepted his plea agreement.In July 2020, the mother of a 13-year-old girl learned her daughter wasn't home at 6:30 a.m. She checked her daughter's Snapchat location and discovered she was at the Holiday Inn, reports said.The mother called police, went to the hotel and located her daughter with Price, according to the probable cause affidavit.The victim told police she met Price through friends. She said they talked online and admitted to sneaking out of the house at least once to meet him, according to reports.She said she knew Price was 19 or 20 years old and that he knew she was 13-years-old, reports said.She also admitted they had sex at least once, reports said.Price was questioned by police and admitted to having sex with the victim at least once, according to the probable cause affidavit.Price also admitted to knowing the victim was 13-years-old,…

If young people today aren’t growing up on TikTok, chances are they’ve already grown up on Tumblr. International friends were formed over fandoms, personal sexualities were discovered, and social justice dominated the microblogging platform. The latter has led to the site often receiving criticism for being full of "social justice warriors" and alternatively, "not safe for work" content—before nudity was banned from the site in December 2018. But for many young people, it was the first online environment where they could truly be themselves. Years later, I find myself endlessly scrolling TikTok, an app becoming known for 16-year-olds making money by dancing in their bedrooms. But underneath this, the platform is hosting the same LGBTQ+ discourses which plagued Tumblr, recycled and absorbed in 60-second video clips by Gen-Z.These patterns seemingly emerged during the height of the pandemic, driven by a TikTok trend involving lip syncing to a section of "Big Picture" from the musical Ordinary Days. The meme normally goes like this: A character sings an elaborate coffee order, overlaid with text showing a long list of identities or preferences they had for themself at a younger age. They then turn to someone else, who says they will have “just tea,” with a…