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Twitter will set up a legal entity in Turkey to comply with controversial social media law

The Verge

Twitter is planning to establish a legal entity in Turkey to continue operating there under the country’s controversial internet law that took effect last year , the company announced late Friday. Under the law, social media companies that have more than 1 million users must store Turkish users’ data in the country.

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Dear Sophie: Will published articles better my odds of getting an O-1A or H-1B visa?

TechCrunch

Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Tenacious in Turkey Dear Tenacious, Thanks for reaching out to me with your questions!

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Apple’s App Store hosted kiddie games with secret gambling dens inside

The Verge

But then, instead of launching an ugly monkey-flipping endless runner game filled with typos and bugs, the very same app launches a casino experience: This @AppStore app pretends to be a silly platformer game for children 4+, but if I set my VPN to Turkey and relaunch it becomes an online casino that doesn’t even use Apple’s IAP.

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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

TechCrunch

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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Have autonomous robots started killing in war? The reality is messier than it appears

The Verge

The Kargu-2 system that’s mentioned here is a quadcopter built in Turkey : it’s essentially a consumer drone that’s used to dive-bomb targets. What’s next for LAWS and the law? Or more accurately: the fog of LAWS. It can be manually operated or steer itself using machine vision. It depends on who you ask.

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How eateries with breakfast menus are responding to high egg prices

Fast Company Tech

But an ongoing bird flu outbreak , which so far has forced farms to slaughter nearly 159 million chickens, turkeys and other birds including nearly 47 million since the start of December is making supplies scarcer and pushing up prices. In normal times, producers could meet the demand for all those eggs. hit a record $4.95 per dozen.

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Gophr, the U.K. last-mile delivery company, picks up £4M funding

TechCrunch

Though Robert doesn’t say it, that’s likely taking a swipe at a new crop of startups either following the Instacart model, such as Getir in Turkey, or the plethora of delivery-only ‘dark stores’, including Berlin’s much-hyped Gorillas , France’s Cajoo ,, and U.K.’s This could become (quite literally) a law of unintended consequences”.

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