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A post on Twitter with over 3,000 shares claims to show a high rise building on fire, apparently in France. This follows riots in the country after a 17-year-old boy, Nahel M, was shot dead by a police officer in a Paris suburb.  

The same video has also been shared a number of times on Facebook, often alongside claims that social media and other forms of reporting are being censored by authorities.

Despite the French flags overlaid on the video, it actually depicts a fire at a residential building in Ajman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that happened on 27 June. Other videos and images from that event match the video being shared online, which appears to have been filmed from the street below.

According to news media coverage, there were no immediate reports of…

The recent exodus of high-profile streamers from Twitch to rival platform Kick has stirred up a storm in the streaming community. With promises of higher revenue cuts and a more relaxed content policy, Kick has managed to attract some of the biggest names in the business.

However, opinions on the new contender remain divided. As Twitch grapples with its own challenges, including protests against stricter advertising rules, the battle for streaming supremacy is heating up.
 

Twitch’s Struggles

 
Twitch, owned by Amazon, has faced a series of setbacks in recent times. The platform was forced to abandon plans for stricter advertising rules after several streamers protested and quit. Within 48 hours, the high-profile streamers Amouranth and xQc jumped ship to Kick, making…

Temu, an e-commerce platform that’s been gathering millions of users since its September 2022 launch, has maintained the top spot as the most downloaded app in the U.S. throughout 2023. The Temu app was recently recognised as an Editor’s Choice on the Google Play app store. 

In the wake of a splashy Super Bowl ad encouraging users to “shop like a billionaire” on the app, Temu garnered a reputation for offering surprisingly inexpensive products, from clothing to electronics. These low prices have spurred a trend of shoppers posting about their “Temu hauls” on social media, but they’ve also led some to question how such low prices are possible.

The Google Play recognition lends credence to Temu’s claim that its low prices are not due to lower quality items but rather to…

Microsoft announced it has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella, making SAP responsible for the licensing, technical management, hosting, and support of its SAP applications under a single SLA.

The migration to S/4HANA will serve a dual purpose for Microsoft: modernizing its legacy SAP systems before the end of mainstream support in 2027 and demonstrating to customers that it is capable of hosting and running one of the largest and most complex SAP installations in the world within the RISE framework.

All three major cloud providers host SAP applications for their customers, and all three run at least some of their internal financial systems on SAP.

Microsoft has run SAP internally since at least 1995; Amazon.com is…

The Times reported that users on the sites referred to Plymouth mass shooter Jake Davison as a hero and called for “all women to be raped at least once”.

Davison, 22, killed his mother, Maxine Davison, 51, after a row and then shot dead four others in a 12-minute attack.

His social media usage suggested an obsession with “incel”, involuntary celibate, culture, which promotes the idea that society is defined by physical appearance.

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