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According to recent reports, Chinese officials have removed several Christian apps from app stores available in the country.

Hanson Robotics announced plans to release thousands of what they’re calling “Sophia” robots. Sophia is a “social robot” that can perform rudimentary medical tasks, like taking a person’s temperature, but can also make facial expressions and utter a few phrases. According to company CEO David Hanson, “Sophia” is programmed to offer “human warmth” and is being released this year in order to help especially elderly people who are living in isolation due to the pandemic.

This week, we’re discovering reasons for genuine thanksgiving. Not a generic sense of gratitude such as secular Americans may briefly feel tomorrow, but a true lifestyle of praise and thanks to the God who is our Father.

Amid supposed big tech censorship, many conservatives have moved away from Twitter and Facebook and toward Parler, a social networking app that prides itself on promoting free speech.

Amid the COVD-19 pandemic, many schools are opting to start the school year online. As such, parents should be aware of the media their children are consuming.

According to reports, research facilities in Israel working to create a vaccine for the coronavirus was the victim of a cyber attack over the weekend.

A church in San Francisco has filed a class action lawsuit against Zoom for its lack of security measures.

According to a new Pew Research survey, of those affiliated with a religious tradition, 81.2% indicated that their house of worship had shifted to broadcasting services over the internet.

More to the point — the coronavirus is forcing us to contend with an even wider question implicit throughout the digital age. Not what is art in the time of coronavirus, but what is art in the age of the internet?