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Brave browser will now redirect all AMP links to publisher URLs by default. Brave aims to rid AMP from its web browser with a new feature called De-AMP, which ensures users visit a publisher’s URLs instead of Google’s. De-AMP will be enabled by default in version 1.38 of Brave’s desktop and Android browsers, with plans to bring it to iOS soon after. The team behind Brave feels that users woul...

Netflix just dropped the documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, which explores the pop culture phenomenon of the retail company Abercrombie & Fitch. The all-American company thrived throughout the late 90s and early 2000s, profiting off of an image of exclusivity. But perhaps what has most caught people’s eye is one man’s description of a shopping mall, bec...

The folks behind the Brave web browser announced this week that they’re adding a De-AMP feature that lets you circumvent pages that use Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages. Now privacy-centric search engine and web browser maker DuckDuckGo has announced it’s doing the same for its web browsers and browser extensions. In other tech news from around the web, rumors of a Google Pixel Watch have be...

NEW YORK — NoHo Hank was supposed to die in the pilot of HBO’s macabre comedy “Barry,” felled by the titular assassin’s bullet. Eight years earlier, Anthony Carrigan, who plays the cheery Chechen mobster, thought his career might be toast, too. Now, finally, he’d landed a role for the ages — for all of one episode. Even before cameras rolled, Carrigan had “everyone on set laughing,” says exec...

2021 law exempted companies that own Florida theme parks Enforcement has been blocked while challenge is litigated Florida’s governor may be able to impose swift retribution against Walt Disney Co. for publicly disagreeing with the state’s “don’t say gay” education law. Republican Ron DeSantis, who’s running for a second term as governor, asked lawmakers to remove a Disney exemption they...

A last-minute proposal to change the liability regime for online search engines in the Digital Services Act (DSA) was circulated in the European Parliament. It is expected to receive the support of the EU Commission and Council. The proposal was circulated ahead of the Easter break in the form of a note by Geoffroy Didier, who represented the legal affairs committee (JURI) in the DSA discussi...

Many environmentally savvy apps that can help you live a more sustainable lifestyle are available for free to download ahead of Earth Day this Friday. Here are some of the highest-rated eco-conscious apps. Want to plant trees? Ecosia works like any other search engine but the ad revenue from your search results on the app goes toward planting trees. All you have to do to plant a tree is use E...

You probably have your favorite way of reading Bristow Beat. And while there is no wrong way to read Bristow Beat online, you may not know that we have a presence on many social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn as well an email newsletter. With the exception of Facebook, many of these platforms have been underutilized by our readers, which is why we are spreading the wo...

The order will likely be rolled out nationwide amid a surge in interest in overseas residency cards and passports. Police in the central Chinese province of Hunan have ordered local residents to hand over their passports to police, promising to return them “when the pandemic is over,” amid a massive surge in people looking for ways to leave China or obtain overseas immigration status. A March...

When the Kremlin wanted to compete with the West economically and in the contest for skilled workers more than a decade ago, its well-educated officials helped nurture homegrown answers to Google, Facebook and tech-security companies such as Symantec. The top Russian search engine, Yandex, sold shares on Nasdaq. The big social network VKontakte got a major investment from an oligarch’s compan...