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NEW YORK -- One posted a video of himself with his feet propped up on a U.S. senator's office table. One wrote "THIS IS ME" on an Instagram photo of rioters attacking Capitol police officers.The two New York men, Brandon Fellows and Edward Jacob Lang, were arrested this weekend on charges related to the Jan. 6 violet insurrection led by supporters of President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol.Fellows, 26, was arrested Saturday night by agents from the FBI's Albany office, a bureau spokesperson said.Fellows, a former grocery store worker who has said he lives in a converted school bus, posted a video on Snapchat showing his feet propped on a table in the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat. "This one is going to get me incriminated," Fellows told a Bloomberg News reporter.Lang, 25, was arrested by FBI agents Saturday at his home in New York's Hudson Valley after he posted photos and videos of himself outside the Capitol, prosecutors said in court papers.A screenshot from Lang's Instagram account depicts rioters attempting to violently breach the Capitol captioned "THIS IS ME," prosecutors said.ALSO READ | Trump impeached: McConnell calls pending trial 'vote of conscience,' Graham says it…

A sex offender has been jailed for five-and-a-half years after contacting a teenage girl on social media despite an online ban.The 30-year-old groomed the girl through Snapchat and Instagram, as well as calling her on the phone.Nathan Bray, of no fixed address, has been charged with breaching his Sexual Harm Prevention Order and causing a child to watch an image of sexual activity.He was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court on Thursday (14 January 2021) following a series of incidents between May and June 2020 where Bray messaged a 15-year-old girl online.Bray told her not to tell the police they had been to speaking to each other.Bray had been subject to the Sexual Harm Prevention Order since January 2016 after he was sentenced for contacting another teenage girl and sending her sexual images. The order prohibits him from talking to any girls under the age of 16 or using the internet to contact young girls.He also used a false name whilst using social media platforms, which is also against his registration requirements whilst on the sex offenders’ register.Detective Constable Laura Alexander led the investigation. She said: “Bray is a serious repeat sexual offender and we are happy with the court result.“He presents…

San Francisco: Apple has yet again extended the free trial membership for the Apple TV+ service to customers till July 2021.With the latest announcement, anybody with an Apple TV+ subscription that was set to expire from now until June will instead expire in July 2021, according to a report in 9to5mac."This means customers who took advantage of the 'year free' deal back when the service first launched will now be getting an additional 9 months of free access to Apple original shows and movies," the report mentioned on Friday.The first TV+ extension was announced in October and pushed the first wave of free trial renewals out to February. The new extension means that anyone who didn't already cancel their subscription will now be able to use it for free for six additional months, the report said.Any current customers with free trials set to end in the February to June period will now see those subscription renewals pushed out to July. Similarly, customers with an annual subscription that expires between February and June will also get the same additional months of service at no additional charge, it added.Apple will notify all eligible customers of the extension via email in the next…

Top performers are raking in cash, as the company seeks to compete against TikTok and similar platforms.Cam Casey, 19, and Joey Rogoff, 21, have made millions from Snapchat’s Spotlight since it debuted last fall.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesJan. 15, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ETIn late November, Cam Casey, a TikTok star with over seven million followers, was relaxing at home when he decided to upload a video of a science experiment that resulted in a Coca-Cola bottle exploding to Snapchat.Mr. Casey, 19, had read that the company had introduced a new TikTok-like feature called Spotlight within the app where users could share short-form videos. He wondered if some old videos from his camera roll could get traction.Two weeks later, Snapchat came calling: Mr. Casey was one of the top performers on the platform and was going to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.Encouraged by his early success, he began posting more videos — sometimes up to 120 per day — uploading fresh content every few minutes from 8 a.m. to midnight.As of Tuesday, he had been paid nearly $3 million by the company for content that went viral.ImageCredit...Alex Welsh for The New York TimesImageCredit...Alex Welsh for The New York…

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Snapchat on Wednesday said that it had permanently banned US President Donald Trump from the platform. Trump has faced major backlash from social media platforms after his supporters attacked Capitol Building on January 6. Facebook, Twitter and Facebook have already taken action against Trump. Snapchat opeartors felt that Trump may use the platform to cause more unrest.  "Last week we announced an indefinite suspension of president Trump's Snapchat account," Snapchat said in response to an AFP inquiry. "In the interest of public safety, and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence, which are clear violations of our guidelines, we have made the decision to permanently terminate his account." In addition to action from social media platforms, tech giants have already moved to ban other apps that Trump or his supporters may use to communicate. Also Read | Donald Trump impeached again, becomes first US president to suffer impeachment twice Google and Apple pulled Parler apps from their shops for digital content shops stating that the right-leaning social network was allowing users to promote violence. Amazon Web Services later ousted Parler from its data-centers, essentially forcing the social network offline due to lack of hosting services.…

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as trustees. The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or prejudice of any kind. Restraint and moderation, rather than agitational language and partisanship, are the hallmarks of the paper. It is an independent newspaper in the real sense of the term. The Tribune has two sister publications, Punjabi Tribune (in Punjabi) and Dainik Tribune (in Hindi).

Topline Snapchat became the latest tech company on Wednesday to take action against President Donald Trump by permanently banning his account, Axios first reported. This picture taken on October 5, 2020 shows the logo of social media Snapchat on a tablet screen in ... Toulouse, southwestern France. Photo by LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Snapchat will permanently ban Trump’s account on January 20 when he leaves office, the company announced Wednesday.  Snapchat had already locked Trump’s account after the Capitol siege last week, and over the summer the social network limited his channel’s reach in response to the president’s comments about Black Lives Matter demonstrations.   Crucial Quote "In the interest of public safety, and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence, which are clear violations of our guidelines, we have made the decision to permanently terminate his account,” a Snapchat spokesperson said Key Background Snapchat is just one of several social media companies taking action against Trump in the wake of the riots. For the last two months, Trump has used his megaphone to promote unfounded conspiracy theories about election fraud, which contributed to his supporters storming the Capitol last week. Twitter…

Snapchat has permanently banned President Trump’s account for his “attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech and incite violence,” a company spokesperson confirmed to TheWrap on Wednesday. “Last week we announced an indefinite suspension of President Trump’s Snapchat account, and have been assessing what long term action is in the best interest of our Snapchat community,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “In the interest of public safety, and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence, which are clear violations of our guidelines, we have made the decision to permanently terminate his account.” In light of the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, Snapchat said it had locked Trump’s account indefinitely. In June, the company stopped promoting Trump’s content on the Discover page after he tweeted that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in response to civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd. Also Read: Trump Attempts Damage Control in New Video but Doesn't Address Impeachment “We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice by giving them free promotion on Discover,” a Snapchat spokesperson said at the time. Trump’s termination from Snapchat follows his seven-day suspension from YouTube, indefinite…

Gabriel Monte   | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Lubbock police recently arrested two people accused of taunting a man on social media after robbing him at gunpoint hours before. Eric Izaiah Maxwell, 18, was booked about 1 a.m. Sunday on a charge of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony that carries a punishment of five years to life in prison, according to jail records. A juvenile suspect was also arrested and taken to the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center. Maxwell's charge stems from a Lubbock police investigation after a man told police Maxwell and another teenager robbed him at gunpoint after arranging to meet with him to sell his smartphone. The man told police he was contacted by the teen on Snapchat where he listed his phone for sale. The two arranged to meet at the Woodspring Suites parking lot in the 2300 block of West Loop 289, according to a police report.The man said the teen exited the hotel from an east side door and his accomplice, later identified as Maxwell, stood in the doorway to keep the door from closing. The man said he handed his phone to the teen, who drew a pistol from his waistband and aimed it at him. The man said he fled to…