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Brazilian court lifts nationwide Telegram ban put in place over data demand
A federal appeals court in Brazil on Saturday lifted the country-wide ban that had been put in place against Telegram earlier this week. Per Reuters, judge Flávio Lucas ruled a complete suspension of the messaging app was “not reasonable” given that thousands of people in Brazil who rely on the platform for their communication needs. At the same time, he upheld the daily $200,000 fine on Telegram for failing to provide local authorities with the data they requested.
The original ban came on Wednesday after a federal court instructed Apple and Google to temporarily remove the service from their domestic app stores. Brazilian authorities sought the suspension after Telegram failed to hand over a full set of data on a pair of neo-Nazi groups on the app accused of inciting violence against schools.
According to The New York Times, a teenager accused of committing two school shootings in November, which left three dead and 13 people injured, was involved with the two groups. Authorities say they saw Nazi content, violent videos and bomb-making instructions shared in those group chats. When it didn’t comply with the initial court order, Telegram reportedly said the two groups had been deleted and that it couldn’t recover the requested information. Telegram did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request.
This isn’t the first time Telegram has been briefly banned in Brazil. In 2022, the country’s highest court suspended the app for failing to freeze accounts accused of spreading disinformation ahead of the country’s recent presidential election. Similarly, that ban was lifted just days later.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/brazilian-court-lifts-nationwide-telegram-ban-put-in-place-over-data-demand-183423449.html?src=rss
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A Quiet Place Prequel Footage At CinemaCon Shows How It All Started
Attendees at CinemaCon were treated to the first look at A Quiet Place prequel that shows how the alien attacks began. The movie will focus on a new character played by Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o and helmed by Pig director Michael Sarnoski.
While the film still has a year before release, the footage gave us an idea of how the first day went down. It opens up in New York City and Lupita’s unnamed character on the bus with her cat. Suddenly there are strange giant sounds all around. The bus stops and the invasion begins right there and then. The back half of her bus is ripped off and we see New Yorkers standing in the street staring at the ships crashing to earth, looking like a meteor shower.
There’s also footage of people learning they have to be silent, to survive and there is a lot of chaos. It’s A Quiet Place in one of the loudest cities on Earth. The footage ended with Lupita crawling under a car to hide, but someone being attacked by an alien grabs her feet, begging for help.
This wristband will keep your phone in place while you workout — Future Blink
With this device you’ll never fumble with your phone again. Match is a wristband that securely holds your phone. Use it while jogging and listening to your tunes while riding a bike and navigating your route or just when your hands are tied up. Attaching your phone to Match is quick and easy. This is a great device for all types of mutitaskers.
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Do voxels still have a place in the new age of modding and community creators?
It’s a very interesting time for the tech that powers your favourite games. The industry is pushing forward on several fronts: AI, the metaverse, community content creation initiatives and, yes, even blockchain. It’s easy to get the impression that we’re on the precipice of a big new leap forward.
But where does that leave those who bet on the big cube roulette table that is voxel tech? We’ve seen some incredibly slick developments in that particularly geometric space over the past few generations; be it in gorgeous ray traced lighting, or jaw-dropping physics sandboxes. I spoke to Dennis Dawson and Marcus Gustafsson from Tuxedo Labs (best known for Teardown) about what place voxels have in an industry running forward at such a pace, and what we can expect from Tuxedo Labs in the future, too.
“We weren’t really ready to move on from Teardown. It’s still increasing in daily users – so we decided to hold off on a new game and keep working on Teardown,” states Dawson, CEO at Tuxedo Labs. Teardown, a game that blew many away back when it released in 2020, continues to have a growing audience of casual players and creators alike even today. The pair say they considered moving onto a new game following the Art Vandal update in 2022, taking their adventures with voxel games “to the next step”, but instead decided to stick with Teardown thanks to its active, and growing, player base.