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Riot to launch Middle East servers soon!

Riot will launch official League of Legends servers in the Middle East and plan to localize the game in Arabic for players in the MENA region. This means that players in MENA will not only enjoy heavily reduced ping but also enjoy the game with reworked game interfaces and champion voiceovers with the correct linguistic nuances.

It’s been a long time coming, but Riot Games is finally stepping up its game in the MENA region. Since 2019, the company has been operating out of its Dubai offices, focusing mainly on publishing efforts. However, this summer marks a significant shift as Riot gears up to launch official servers tailored specifically for players in the MENA region. This move…


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Eiffel Tower ‘riot’ photo is actually from Euro 2016 final

A post on Facebook falsely claims that a photo shows a riot taking place near Paris’ Eiffel Tower in recent days. But the photo was actually taken in 2016. 

The photo shows people, many of them with their face covered, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower next to a burning pile of rubbish. 

The post claims that this shows “riots from illegal immigrants right now in France” and says that this is proof that people in the US need guns for protection. 

Riots have broken out across France after a 17-year-old boy, Nahel M, died after being shot by a police officer at a traffic stop in a Paris suburb on 27 June.  

However the photo shared on social media does not show current riots— it comes from an incident in 2016 when football fans clashed with police during the


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Why SkySilk Came Out of Nowhere To Save Parler After Capitol Riot : NPR

Kevin Matossian is the CEO of tech company SkySilk.

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Kevin Matossian is the CEO of tech company SkySilk.

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On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler.

Parler grew desperate. It had relied on Amazon’s web…


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Workers demand Amazon Web drop Parler over posts ‘inciting violence’ after Capitol riot

Some Amazon employees are calling on the company to be the next tech giant to cut off the controversial social media platform Parler.

The group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice posted a tweet overnight demanding that “Amazon deny Parler services until it removes posts inciting violence, including at the Presidential inauguration.”

“We cannot be complicit in more bloodshed and violent attacks on democracy,” they wrote.

COMPANIES EXAMINE CAPITOL RIOT FOR SECURITY LESSONS

Amazon Web Services’ acceptable-use policy bars customers from using its services for “illegal, harmful or offensive” content. An Amazon representative declined to comment.

Parler is facing criticism over Wednesday’s…


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