Instagram will ask for your birthday when you open the app if you haven't already added it to your profile, and it will eventually be required for you to use the app. The company says these efforts are part of its work to make the platform safer for young people, but having them required speaks to the need to make sure that kids are safe online.
ByteDance is buying up its own virtual reality headset maker Pico, which had raised some $62 million in venture funding from Chinese firms, but ByteDances didn’t disclose a price tag for the deal. The company is looking to one-up Facebook anywhere it can.
Sephora's "Black Beauty is Beauty" spot is a sign of how the beauty retailer is trying to incorporate more diversity into its marketing at large. The short film highlights the influence of Black culture on beauty, and it prefaces the launch of SepHora's first ad campaign highlighting Black-owned brands, focusing on the excellence and quality of the products from its Black- owned brands.
The consumer internet industry spent two decades building a huge, complex, chaotic pile of tools and systems to track and analyse what people do on the internet, sometimes for very good reasons, and sometimes with strong doses of panic and opportunism. Now that’s mostly going to change, between unilateral decisions by some big tech platforms and waves of regulation from all around the world, but we don't have any clarity on what that would mean, or even quite what we're trying to achieve, and there are lots of unresolved questions.
Square CEO Jack Dorsey is planning to create a decentralized exchange for Bitcoin. This will be a decentralized exchange based on other blockchains. The company wants to make a service that allows users to fund any kind of Bitcoinwallet using fiat currency. The CEO also tweeted that he believes Bitcoin will be the native currency of the internet.
Apple's iPhone 13 could have the ability to make satellite calls built right in, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, a noted Apple prognosticator and analyst, who claims the iPhone 13 will be able to connect directly to low earth orbit (or LEO) satellites thanks to a customized Qualcomm X60 baseband chip.
Apple Watch Series 7 might come in larger 41mm and 45mm case sizes with bigger screens to match. There will reportedly be new watch faces to take advantage of the added visual real estate. It might also pack a faster processor and improved ultra-wideband tech. However, any advanced health sensors might have to wait until 2022.
Rovio Entertainment is being sued by New Mexico's attorney general over allegations the company collects and sells personal data of children under the age of 13. The lawsuit accuses the company of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in part because Angry Birds is marketed to younger device users.
Clubhouse announced on Sunday that its rooms will be infused with spatial audio to give the app’s listeners a richer sense of hanging out live with a group of other people. The new audio features will roll out to the majority of iOS and Android users within the next few weeks.
Apple announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to a settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by developers. The deal includes a change in the way developers can share information to customers about how they pay for their purchases outside their iOS apps or App Stores, which would allow them to communicate by email.
The South Korean army meal was posted on a Facebook group in February 2020, where young recruits would vent over the experience of compulsory service, but the photo was a pile of rice and dried seaweed. The photo would trigger a chain of reforms, eventually cascading into a presidential apology and an ongoing inquiry into military culture.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to receive a huge payday as part of the 10th and final tranche of a deal he signed a decade ago to succeed Steve Jobs, set to receive roughly 5 million shares of Apple stock worth about $750 million. Some of the deal is contingent upon Apple’s stock beating the return of two-thirds of the companies in the S&P 500 over the last three years.