A group of armed robbers raided an Amazon delivery truck in Atlanta and stole 60 packages before fleeing.

Investigator James H. White III of the Atlanta Police Department told Business Insider that the incident happened last Wednesday afternoon in the days leading up to the busiest shopping weekend of the year.

According to the National Retail Federation, holiday retail sales in November and December are expected to achieve record revenue of between $727.9 billion and $730.7 billion. 

According to White, two Amazon delivery drivers said they were approached by four men while they were driving along their delivery route in southeast Atlanta. Two of the men pulled out guns and proceeded to steal 60 packages before fleeing the scene. 

The drivers were unharmed in the incident. White said an investigation into the incident is still ongoing. 

Amazon said in a statement to WSB-TV Atlanta that the robbery a "terrible incident" and said it was working with law enforcement and delivery service partners in the investigation. 

"We work with every driver to ensure he or she knows that safety is our first priority," the statement said. 

On Wednesday, the Atlanta Police Department released a video on its social media accounts giving people tips on how to prevent theft of their holiday purchases during the busy shopping season. 

"The holiday season is a perfect opportunity for criminals to steal valuable gifts and packages from your home," officer James Dimaso said in the video. 

The police department recommends requiring a signature for packages delivered to your workplace, scheduling deliveries for when you're home, using a smart package locker, or installing cameras outside your home. 

A 2017 report found that nearly 26 million Americans have had a holiday package delivery stolen from outside their residence.

"Around the country, more than 1.7 million packages are stolen or go missing every day — adding up to more than $25 million in lost goods and services," The New York Times reported citing an analysis done for the newspaper by engineering professor José Holguín-Veras, the director of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems.

Online shopping hit a milestone in February, with more shoppers choosing online retailers over brick and mortar shops for the first time in history, according to a report from the Commerce Department. Amazon leads the online retail space, becoming the world's largest online retailer earlier this year. 

Amazon announced Monday that it's stepping into quantum computing – a new field of computing where Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Intel have already started building.

Quantum computing is still at its early stages, but experts predict that it will be exponentially more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers today and can be used for drug discovery, modeling molecules, logistics planning, and even predicting the stock market. 

Already, Microsoft, IBM, Google, and Intel, as well as smaller startups, have gotten started in conducting research and building early quantum computers. Notably, AWS isn't building its own quantum hardware – instead, it's allowing people to access quantum computing technology built by partners through through its cloud.

Now, Amazon's new product, called Amazon Braket, is a service that allows scientists, researchers, and developers to experiment with quantum computing from hardware providers by using Amazon's cloud. Amazon partnered with quantum computing startups D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti for this, and this service is now available in preview.

"It is a step for them into the quantum industry as a whole," Rigetti COO Taryn Naidu told Business Insider. "There's obviously a lot of work from companies like ourselves. They're really focusing on bringing quantum hardware to the user base to make sure it's ready for prime time. It's the first step of Amazon being that conduit."

Already, Boeing plans to collaborate with AWS to use its quantum computing technology for materials science research and more.

Besides that, Amazon Web Services started a Center for Quantum Computing, which brings together experts from Amazon, the California Institute of Technology, and other research institutions to collaborate on research, as well as the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab, which connects customers with experts at Amazon to find the best way to use quantum computing.

"With quantum engineering starting to make more meaningful progress, customers are asking for ways to experiment with quantum computers and explore the technology's potential," Charlie Bell, senior vice president of utility computing services at AWS, said in a statement. "We believe that quantum computing will be a cloud-first technology and that the cloud will be the main way customers access the hardware.

'Definitely a hot space'

Naidu says the partnership with AWS has been in the works for months, and now, he looks forward to being able to tap into AWS's large ecosystem of users.

"It gives us the ability to work with those customers," Naidu said. "This is an opportunity for people to get familiar with quantum in an environment they're already on and start understanding what quantum can do for their business."

Naidu says lately, he's seen much more interest in quantum computing from customers, and he can only imagine how much interest AWS has received.

"It's definitely a hot space," Naidu said. "What we're seeing and what I understand they're seeing is a lot more interest from the customers. Typically speaking, when you look at how AWS has traditionally done stuff, it's based on customer interest. When I take a step back and look at the inbound we received, it's changed dramatically."

Experts say that in quantum computing, cloud can be a powerful tool to allow customers to use it because they can write quantum computing code that can run anywhere they want. Previously, Descartes Labs built one of the world's most powerful supercomputers using AWS.

Now in quantum computing, The three partners D-Wave, IonQ, and Rigetti are all taking completely different approaches, and with Braket, customers have access to them all.

"We share a common goal with Amazon that more developers and businesses need access to quantum computing, and the cloud is the best way to scale that," Alan Baratz, chief product officer of D-Wave, told Business Insider.

'I'm really excited for them to get into the game'

Matthew Brisse, research vice president at Gartner, says that although AWS is a bit late to the game compared to competitors, he's excited to see AWS embracing quantum computing and it's a "natural fit."

"I'm really excited for them to get into the game," Brisse told Business Insider. "It legitimizes the effort that other vendors are making in this quantum space. It's not just a research project anymore. CIO's can no longer afford to ignore quantum computing."

Brisse says that one advantage AWS has is its ability to offer professional services – which is where the "real money" will be. That's because customers will need help understanding how to use quantum computing. 

To some extent, Brisse says, AWS still has some catching up to do because IBM and Microsoft both have a large network of partners. However, AWS can tap into the developer community. 

Right now, Brisse says there's a large gap in providing developers with quantum computing resources, and AWS is developing the software to "win the hearts and minds of the developer community." Already, customers are investing in quantum computing as a long term plan, he says.

"Amazon with their Braket program is a really good first step," Brisse said. "It's communicating to the world, hey, we're in this game. They're not too far behind but they don't have a quantum platform. It's kind of a race to see who can get the developer community behind them. Once you get the developer community behind them, that's where the professional services will kick in."

Attention Amazon Web Services conference attendees: You are no longer forbidden from using the words "multi-cloud" or "hybrid cloud."

Amazon kicks off its largest cloud computing event of the year on Monday, when it hosts the latest installment of its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. One noteworthy — and telling — change to this year's event is in the company's longstanding list of banned words.

After years of strictly enforcing a list of forbidden words, Amazon has loosened its rules. Don't expect to see the names of cloud arch-rivals Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud displayed in prominent places like booth signs, in videos or during on-stage sessions — this is still Amazon's party, of course.

But unlike in years past, Amazon will now tolerate the use of words and terms — in certain circumstances — that allude to the existence of other clouds beyond AWS. Amazon removed its rule forbidding "multi-cloud," "any cloud," "cross cloud," and "every cloud" from its branding guide for partners, as of October.

Still, before the guide was updated, partners said they had to abide by those rules and submit their content for re:Invent to AWS for approval.

The easing of the ban underscores the shifting dynamics of the $214 billion cloud industry more than a decade after Amazon pioneered the business by letting other tech companies rent access to its computing infrastructure. Amazon remains the market leader, but competitors like Microsoft, Google and IBM are chipping away at its share, both directly and through alternative services that let customers combine Amazon's cloud with other products.

Microsoft's surprise win of the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI contract in October was a particularly humbling blow for Amazon, which was considered the front-runner (Amazon is challenging the government's decision to award the contract to Microsoft, alleging "unmistakable bias").

"AWS has been very successful for a long period of time in part because they adapt to the market quickly and aggressively," said Bailey Caldwell, vice president of cloud solutions engineering at Flexera.  "It's not surprising that they would do the same with their branding guidelines. It's a multi-cloud world, we're just living in it."

An AWS spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that it has updated its rules, but did not provide further comment.

'They have event police walking around and making sure you're following their rules'

Amazon partners, who have become accustomed to submitting their presentations, content, and even giveaway swag to AWS for approval, have long viewed the banned words with a mixture of amusement and resignation.

AWS "heavily curates" what partners can present at its conferences, and content must be submitted to AWS for review, said Flexera's Caldwell. For example, he recalls AWS telling his company to redact the term "private cloud" from its presentation and instead, to use the term "private IT." Now, with the new branding guide, the term "private cloud" may be approved.

"They have a history of trying to control the message in areas where they want to dominate the market, which is, cloud only exists in public context," Caldwell told Business Insider. "If you're talking about cloud it has to be Amazon."

Amazon is not the only company that restricts partners from mentioning rivals, but Caldwell notes that it gets more flack about it because of how it has disrupted other businesses – for example, AWS launching a database competitor to that of MongoDB's.

"They will always control the message about what they're doing and why they're doing it," Caldwell said. "They're not alone in the space. They just happen to get more attention and grief resulting in it because the list of partners that have gone out of business or been disrupted by Amazon itself is endless."

The lengths that Amazon goes to expunge blasphemous words from its events can come across as draconian.

InfluxData CMO Mark Herring recalls on past occasions seeing AWS staff roam the conference show floor armed with tape to cover up terms like "multi-cloud."

"They have event police walking around and making sure you're following their rules," Herring said. "Even though we might all think they're crazy rules, they definitely enforce it."

Ken Hui, technical marketing engineer at Rubrik, recalls putting together talks for re:Invent, but he had to change his slides because he mentioned there were multiple clouds. For example, he had pictures showing AWS and Microsoft Azure, and he had to remove all references to Azure. 

In addition, one of his slides said "clouds," and he says he was told that he shouldn't use the plural. Hui says that while he feels the rules are "a little strict," he says it's AWS's conference and the company is free to have that rule if it wants.

"I was told by the brand department that I shouldn't put anything in there that implies there's more than one cloud in the world," Hui told Business Insider. "My thoughts on that is I don't think Amazon doesn't believe there are other cloud providers...I think what they're trying to say is, we don't want conversations to be talking about having other clouds as an option."

'Amazon takes competition to a new level'

According to documents viewed by Business Insider, as of October, partners cannot mention names or logos of rival clouds in "high-visibility content," like booth graphics, session content, demos and videos, and display ads. However, if their product runs on other clouds, they may mention those specific clouds in data sheets, flyers, and whitepapers.

Amazon Web Services previously did not allow terms like "multi-cloud," "cross cloud," "any cloud," or "every cloud" – language that implies supporting more than one cloud provider. But according to documents from October, this rule is no longer there.

Some partners at this week's re:Invent conference were unaware of the easing of the rules. 

Industry veterans say that the reality is, customers are going to go for multiple clouds, and AWS removing its ban on the term "multi-cloud" reflects that. Caldwell says that it's a "requirement" for any large company today.

"Whether Amazon likes the term, it's actually what customers focus on, and Amazon's key coin phrase is, we do what our customers want," Caldwell said. "That's a little bit disingenuous. They do what customers want as long as it's in support of acquiring more revenue for Amazon."

Herring says that while he understands why AWS has these rules, the reality is, customers are still going to ask partners if the technology can run on other clouds. 

"If you look at the main audience that goes to AWS, it's usually a technical person who spends time doing Google searches and [is] on GitHub, looking at other technologies," Herring said. "In some ways, I can understand if I'm a marketing person why they want to do that, but for all practical purposes, it almost doesn't matter. It's a tech savvy audience."

Poojan Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Clumio, says customers will still ask about using multiple clouds regardless of AWS's conference rules.

"If you create the market and you're the leader, you tend to be stringent," Kumar said. "From that perspective, it's not surprising that AWS wants to make it seem like they're the only ones...Similarly what we see is, at the end of the day, customers use multi-cloud. It doesn't really matter if AWS allows it or not because that's the reality anyways."

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The FBI says that it considers "any mobile application or similar product developed in Russia, such as FaceApp, to be a significant counterintelligence threat." 

The popular photo-editing platform FaceApp debuted in 2017, but it exploded in popularity this summer as social media influencers flooded feeds with selfies that used the app's filters to alter their age or gender— usually to hilarious effect. It was even briefly the most popular free app in both the Apple Store and Google Play. 

But the Russian-developed app also drew regulatory scrutiny thanks to its data policies: photos added to FaceApp were uploaded to a server for processing before being sent back to the user, but its terms of service did not specify how long the data could be kept.

National security concerns mounted, as people worried that sensitive biometric data could be accessed by a foreign government. When it went viral in July, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer immediately wrote to the FBI and the FTC to express his concern about FaceApp's Russia ties.  The Democratic National Committee also issued warnings to the 2020 Democratic candidates about the app and urged them not to use it.

The Russian government's role in the 2016 election, its pattern of hacking US intelligence, and its longtime history competing with the US in the 20th century formed the foundations of the FaceApp backlash. 

The FBI responded to Senator Schumer's letter on November 25th, to say that it considers "any mobile application or similar product developed in Russia, such as FaceApp, to be a significant counterintelligence threat." 

The senator shared a copy of the FBI's response via Twitter on Monday, and said this was "a warning to share with your family & friends."

Russia's newly implemented internet sovereignty law requires internet providers to install hardware to allow government authorities to locate and block sources of web traffic. This, along with its privacy and terms of use policies, seems to form the basis for the FBI's concerns. 

"The legal mechanisms available to the Government of Russia that permit access to data," made FaceApp, along with any other mobile application developed in Russia a counterintelligence threat, according to the agency's letter.

The letter also warned about Russian intelligence's "robust cyber exploitation capabilities, and warned that authorities could "remotely access all communications and servers on Russian networks," without requests to internet providers. 

FaceApp did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a July statement to TechCrunch, it said it did not transfer any data to Russia, where its R&D team is based. 

While iMovie is a great tool that comes standard with your Mac, you don't have to be an expert editor to use it. 

One of the easiest and most basic uses is cropping videos. This can come in handy if you want to focus on a certain part of the frame, or if you want to make a vertical iPhone video look better on social media platforms. 

Here's how to do it. 

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How to crop a video on a Mac computer using iMovie

1. Open Finder.

2. Click on Applications.

3. Scroll down to iMovie and open it up.

4. Click on File along the top bar, then click on "New Movie."

5. In the New Movie, you will see a button inviting you to Import Media. Click on that.

 

Updated 12/2/19 at 6:10 p.m. ET

If you're hoping to shop online this Cyber Monday, don't forget about Walmart, which will be offering great deals on TVs, electronics, kitchen appliances, and more. For anyone who's looking for fun and affordable Christmas gift ideas for kids, tons of toys are also discounted by up to 50%, and you can sort through the deals by price or age range.

Here's everything you need to know about Walmart's best Cyber Monday deals. 

The best Walmart Cyber Monday deals of 2019:

How we selected the best deals at Walmart:

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In principle, mouse acceleration is a helpful feature in Windows 10 — it proportionally increases the movement of your mouse pointer based on the speed with which you move it across the screen. 

That way, you reach your target faster, and work more efficiently. Unfortunately, it also means you're far more likely to overshoot your target, which is annoying in daily use and extremely frustrating when playing games, where accuracy is critical. 

The good news is that it's easy to turn off — you just need to disable the ironically named "Enhance pointer precision" setting, which does exactly the opposite of what its name implies. 

Here's how to do it. 

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How to turn off mouse acceleration in Windows 10

1. Click the Start button and then click the Settings icon, which is shaped like a gear. 

Updated 12/2/19 at 5:45 p.m. ET

Cyber Monday is beginning to wind down, and it is — without a doubt — one of the best times of year to pick up some sweet MacBook deals on all of Apple's laptop models.

Apple's entire lineup of laptops is available at a discount, from the brand-new 16-inch MacBook Pro to the latest 13-inch MacBook Air and everything in between.

As we said, every one of Apple's newest laptop models are up for sale, but we're particularly bullish on the MacBook Air. This is now Apple's cheapest laptop by a long shot, but it certainly doesn't skimp out on features or style. This version includes a high-resolution display and Apple's Touch ID biometric login, for example, which you won't find on many other laptops for just $899.99 — the laptop's current best Cyber Monday deal that's just $100 more than it was on Black Friday.

We're also seeing discounts on the newly-minted 16-inch MacBook Pro, oddly enough. Released mere weeks ago at the same price as the 15.4-inch MacBook Pro that it succeeds, this new version features a larger and sharper display along with a brand-new "Magic Keyboard" that does away with the divisive "Butterfly" keyboard first introduced in late 2016.

Apple has smartened up to the way retail works in the modern era, offering up attractive discounts on all of its laptop computer products, giving you the choice of the litter this Cyber Monday. We've rounded up the best Cyber Monday MacBook deals yet below.

Every one of these discounted MacBooks also comes with a free year of Apple's TV streaming service, Apple TV+, as part of a promotion the company is running on any major device purchased through 2019.

Apple also has a four-day shopping event that ends today, which offers up to a $200 gift card alongside certain Apple purchases, namely computers. It breaks down like this for Apple laptops: buying a MacBook Air nets you a $100 Apple Store gift card, while a MacBook Pro or iMac purchase scores you a $200 Apple Store gift card.

Some of the deals may appear to be out of stock, but you can often add them to your cart and still get the deal price. We've seen several deals go in and out of stock or sell out entirely.

We'll be updating this article throughout the rest of Cyber Monday, so keep it locked to your browser tabs or bookmarked for the very latest and best MacBook deals on Cyber Monday.

Updated 12/02/19 at 5:48 p.m. ET

Cyber Monday is finally here with hundreds of great deals at Best Buy (and Amazon, and Target and Walmart). We're curating all the top Best Buy Cyber Monday deals on TVs, headphones, streaming sticks, and more. 

We'll be updating this page as more Best Buy Cyber Monday deals drop, so be sure to check back as the day (and week) goes on. We've just added a handful of new deals on the Oculus Rift, Echo Show 5, and Anova Precision Cooker Nano.

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AT&T's WarnerMedia Entertainment — which includes HBO, Turner, and Warner Bros. — plans to cut more than two dozen marketing and international sales jobs in New York next year.

The entertainment company disclosed in two New York State filings published in November that it would eliminate 12 non-union jobs within two weeks of February 1, 2020, and another 15 jobs between February 12 and the end of the year. The filings were submitted by HBO. 

The layoffs will hit WarnerMedia Entertainment's marketing and international sales teams, to eliminate overlap as the departments are restructured, a WarnerMedia Entertainment spokesperson told Business Insider in a statement.

"It was recently announced internally that WarnerMedia Entertainment's marketing and international sales teams are being restructured, resulting in some unfortunate job eliminations due to duplication and centralization of responsibilities," the statement said. "Although these changes are common when groups are merged, it is always difficult to lose valued employees." 

The layoffs are the latest to hit WarnerMedia since it was acquired (under its previous name, Time Warner) by AT&T in 2018. The companies have not revealed how many jobs have been slashed because of the merger, but WarnerMedia has disclosed at least 50 job cuts in New York State filings this year.

Alexandra Steigrad at the New York Post reported in October that the number of cuts could be in the "high hundreds," citing one insider.

The new cuts also come as WarnerMedia prepares to launch HBO Max, its streaming competitor to Netflix, in May 2020.

In October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Washington, D.C., for a grilling by lawmakers.

During the same trip, Zuckerberg did two other crucial things: He stopped at Georgetown University to give a talk on political speech, and he had a private, undisclosed dinner with President Trump.

We'll get back to the latter event in a moment, but let's start with his speech at Georgetown.

"We're at another crossroads," Zuckerberg said in his speech. "We can continue to stand for free expression, understanding its messiness, but believing that the long journey towards greater progress requires confronting ideas that challenge us. Or we can decide the cost is simply too great. I'm here today because I believe we must continue to stand for free expression."

The "free expression" Zuckerberg was speaking about specifically referred to political speech. Even more specifically, Zuckerberg was speaking to Facebook's decision to not fact-check advertising from politicians on the massive social network he runs. 

Simply put: "Facebook exempts politicians from our third-party fact-checking program," Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications, Nick Clegg, said in September. That means politicians can run ads with lies on Facebook, and Facebook won't stop those ads from running, nor will it inform users that the ad contains lies.

Facebook relies on third-party fact-checking for the majority of ads run on its social network. It adheres to an international standard for fact-checking: The International Fact Checking Network, run by Poynter.

That third-party fact-checker scrutinizes "public, newsworthy Facebook posts, including ads, with articles, photos, or videos." There is one exception to this fact-checking effort: political advertising.

Facebook lays out its reasoning in an official document. Under the question, "Why are politicians not eligible?," the explanation is as follows: "Our approach is grounded in Facebook's fundamental belief in free expression, respect for the democratic process, and the belief that, especially in mature democracies with a free press, political speech is the most scrutinized speech there is. Just as critically, by limiting political speech we would leave people less informed about what their elected officials are saying and leave politicians less accountable for their words."

Between Facebook's official policy and Zuckerberg's repeated, impassioned defense of the policy, Facebook's CEO comes across as a true believer in the importance of political transparency.

Even if politicians are lying in their ads, Zuckerberg contends, the public should see those ads as it's part of political speech. "We don't do this to help politicians, but because we think people should be able to see for themselves what politicians are saying," he said in his speech at Georgetown.

But Zuckerberg's interest in the public being able "to see for themselves what politicians are saying" apparently ends when it comes to eating dinner with the US president.

The details of the dinner in October remain elusive, but some new information came out of an interview with Zuckerberg on "CBS This Morning" on Monday.

"We talked about a number of things that were on his mind, and some of the topics that you read about in the news around our work," Zuckerberg told the cohost, Gayle King. 

Zuckerberg refuted that Trump lobbied him in any way during the dinner, and then made a stunning statement: "I also want to respect that it was a private dinner with private discussion."

To be clear, we're talking a private dinner between the President of the United States — the most public role of all public roles in American life — and the CEO of one of the world's most powerful companies.

There's a duplicity in this that's evident: Zuckerberg believes in open, uncensored political speech ... until asked by a reporter about a secret, private dinner he had with the US president. The contradiction makes Zuckerberg's previous statements less believable — rather than an impassioned believer in the First Amendment and political transparency, Zuckerberg comes across as a businessman who is using American political traditions as a means of defending a widely criticized company policy. 

Watch the interview clip from CBS This Morning right here:

Even business icons need a break.

Apple's legendary former chief design officer Jony Ive looks to have left Apple for good after his profile disappeared from Apple's leadership page this week.

Since his departure was first announced, it looks like he's been having fun.

Ive formed one of the most fruitful business and tech partnerships ever seen with the late Steve Jobs, playing an instrumental role in the design of the iPhone, iPod and iPad. His relentless productivity continued well into the Tim Cook era, and he was key to the development of the Apple Watch.

But his departure from Apple was announced in June and was slated to take place "later this year."  Ive said he planned to start his own design firm, LoveFrom, with Apple as one of its clients.

In the months since, Ive has been spotted mingling with numerous creatives and celebrities around his home country of England. Here, Business Insider takes a glance at what he's been up to.

TikTok's catastrophic public-relations fallout over its suspension of a teen girl who posted anti-China videos has shown that it's almost impossible to run a viral social-media platform while following Beijing's rules.

On Wednesday, the video-streaming app issued a public apology to 17-year-old Feroza Aziz, whose account was suspended after she posted a series of viral videos condemning China's mass surveillance and detention of Uighur Muslims.

TikTok has repeatedly denied suspending Aziz over the anti-China clips, claiming she was suspended for posting a video featuring the terrorist Osama bin Laden on a previous account.

That video showed a list of celebrity crushes, with bin Laden's image added as part of "dark humor" at the end, Aziz told Business Insider on Wednesday.

Aziz has publicly doubted that the bin Laden video was the cause of her suspension, saying she thinks she was punished for standing up to China instead.

The inherent difficulty of running a social media platform according to China's rules

The entire episode has brought to light the inherent difficulty of running a viral social-media platform while being under China's watchful eye.

TikTok, which is run by Chinese company ByteDance, has exploded in popularity since it launched in 2017, having accumulated a total of 1.5 billion downloads in two years and outperforming Instagram in app downloads this year.

It is mainly popular among teens, who create and share content that mostly involve memes, dances, and lip-syncing.

Simultaneously, it has faced mounting criticism and concern over its links to the Chinese government, which often compels domestic tech companies to censor content.

TikTok's Chinese counterpart, Douyin — which does not share the same content or userbase as TikTok — has routinely purged anti-China videos from its platform.

Leaked internal instructions show China's influence

TikTok, which is based in California, has repeatedly tried to distance itself from its Chinese links. ByteDance is currently trying to separate TikTok from much of its Chinese operations.

But a series of leaked internal instructions, published by multiple news outlets in recent months, show TikTok moderators being told to remove or demote politically and culturally sensitive posts. Here's a rundown of those reports:

TikTok has been keen to emphasize its lighthearted side, with the company's leader Alex Zhu telling The New York Times earlier this month that political discussion is allowed as long as it aligns with the platform's "creative and joyful experience."

The US military is trying to figure out what China can 'see' inside TikTok

But despite these attempts, it has not managed to shake off any suspicion of its links to Chinese censorship.

The US Army and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a national-security panel, are currently investigating how it handles user data.

TikTok has publicly apologized to Aziz, but she still isn't convinced — meaning the company still has a lot to answer for.

"I really doubt that TikTok is ultimately saying the truth about what's happening here," Aziz told Business Insider on Wednesday. "I think that something is going on and TikTok doesn't want people to find out what's going in China."

Cards Against Humanity is back to its usual pranks this Black Friday. 

The maker of the irreverent card game announced on Friday that it had written (or, as it explained, hired a kid to write) a machine-learning algorithm to write its cards. And it's now pitting its employees against the algorithm, to see who can sell more card packs. 

The stakes are high, according to the company. Should the writers triumph, they will be awarded $5,000, a tidy holiday bonus. But should the algorithm win, the company website says it'll fire the writers. 

"Listen, we only care about two things: reducing labor costs and increasing comedy efficiency," the company writes on its site. "That's why we've trained a powerful neural network to replace our expensive, cannabis-smoking writers. Today, we're giving the writers one chance to save their jobs from automation."

Cards Against Humanity is known for its satirization of Black Friday, and over the years, it has pulled off a series of ridiculous stunts. Last year, they launched a 99% off sale, selling everything from dollar bills to a life-size cutout of Orlando Bloom. Back in 2016, the company managed to raise more than $90,000 to crowdfund digging a massive hole in the ground for no reason. 

This year's stunt is a little more dystopian, tapping into nationwide concern that automation is replacing jobs. 

A grueling, 16 hour-long livestreamed competition based on who writes the better-selling card packs will decide the human writers' fates. And the company has made the tally (AI card sold vs. human cards sold) available up on their website. Web browsers can even upvote or downvote their favorite cards written on either side, although whether the votes will decide future card packs seems unclear. 

The company website says that this year's stunt is to "'get attention and make money while overworking our employees," in what the company says is the true spirit of Black Friday. 

But the company has largely stayed away from a political position on the automation threat, only joking about presidential candidate Andrew Yang's universal basic income campaign on their FAQ.

"Does this mean I should support Andrew Yang?" is a question that appears on the company FAQ. 

"Who?" Cards Against Humanity asks in response. 

A company spokesperson told Business Insider, "Mainly, we wanted to see if it would be funny for a computer to write jokes. We'll let the viewers read into the deeper implications." They did not respond to Business Insider's question on whether or not they would actually fire the writers. 

Six hours into the competition, the humans appear to be winning with slightly more than 2,000 card packs in the lead. Packs written by algorithm and human writers are each available at $5 per pack. 

You can delete an album from your Galaxy S10's Gallery app with just a couple of taps. 

Be aware, though, that when you delete an album, you're also deleting any photos that might be stored in it — so move any photos you want to keep out of the album before you delete it. 

Here's how to delete an album on your Galaxy S10. 

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1. Start the Gallery app.

2. Make sure you are on the Albums tab by tapping "Albums" at the bottom of the screen.

3. Tap and hold the album you want to delete. After a moment, you should see the screen change to selection mode, and the album will have a check mark. 

4. Tap "Delete" at the bottom of the screen. Tap "Move to Trash" to confirm your selection.

How to move photos out of an album before you delete it

You can preserve select photos before you delete a folder by moving them to a different folder.

1. Tap the folder you want to delete. You should see all the photos stored inside it.

2. Tap and hold a photo until the screen changes to selection mode and the photo has a check mark. 

3. Select every photo you want to save by tapping it. 

4. Tap the three dots at the top right of the screen and then tap "Move to album."

5. Tap the album you want to move the photos into.

If you have a touch screen computer and Windows 10 — like the Microsoft Surface Book 2 — you're probably familiar with tablet mode.

Tablet mode is when your computer disables use of the keyboard (often because it has been folded over or detached) and turns itself into what is, functionally, a tablet device.

Most computers with this ability give you the option to have your computer automatically switch in and out of tablet mode when it senses itself being folded into tablet shape, or will ask you if you'd like to switch.

However, for those who don't use their computer's tablet mode at all, this function can be annoying and make it difficult to use your computer. 

Here's how to turn it off. 

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How to turn off tablet mode on Windows 10

1. Click the Start button — the Windows icon in the bottom left corner of your screen.

2. Open Settings by clicking the gear icon in the Start menu, right above the power button.