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• Meteor triggers sonic boom and "astonishing" flash of light across multiple states and Ontario - CBS News — A noontime boom that was heard and felt from southern Ontario to Virginia was likely caused by a disintegrating meteor, according to an organization in western New York that keeps track of such phenomena. Witnesses across the area reported hearing the boom or seeing a fireball in the sky shortly after noon on Wednesday, said Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society in Geneseo.
• Warner Bros. will release all of its new 2021 movies simultaneously on HBO Max - The Verge
• Parler’s weak moderation attracts pornography - The Washington Post
• Twitter turns off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read - The Verge
• YouTube will ask commenters to rethink posting if their message seems offensive - The Verge
• GitHub: Python and TypeScript gain popularity among programming languages | VentureBeat
• Obama knows truth about space aliens, government UFO files
• Your 7-year fear of Americans legally getting to make in-flight calls has come to an end - The Verge
• Light-based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers - Scientific American