Bitcoin prices have repeatedly hit multi-month highs today, rising to the most since May and fluctuating within a reasonably tight range. The world's most prominent digital currency climbed to $50,352.00 around 3 a.m. EDT, later reaching $50.374.97, the highest value since May 15.
The next Apple Watch is likely to be announced on September 14. However, a recent report claims that production difficulties may cause a delay or constrained supply. The report also claims that there will be exciting new health features in this year's Watch, something other pundits have flatly contradicted.
Cloudflare will continue using AMD's Epyc server processors instead of Intel's Ice Lake Xeon for its next generation of servers. The company tested Intel’s Ice Lake processors against the latest AMD EpyC chips and found that the power consumption was just too high.
Apple will be changing its guidelines to allow certain developers to avoid a 30% cut from Apple. The move will apply to Netflix, Spotify, and Spotify, which are already criticized by Apple for their 30 percent take from developers. The change is expected to take place in 2022.
Kantar's Media Reactions report suggests the accelerated adoption of digital channels over the past year-plus has strengthened consumer perceptions and comfort with ads running in those environments, noting that consumer trust in platforms often preempts that of marketers, a group that tends to be more conservative in trying to strike a balance between brand safety and innovation.
T-mobile was hacked last month, with the data stolen from more than half of its customers. The data includes Social security numbers, drivers' license numbers and names, and birth dates. The company has confirmed that the data was stolen from its servers. The government should find a ways to punish the companies who fall victim.
Twitter is rolling out Super Follows, a premium subscription option that will allow users to subscribe to accounts they like for a monthly subscription fee in exchange for exclusive content. The feature will be available to eligible accounts with the option of charging $2.99, $4.99 or $9.99 per month.
Chatbots are getting better at mimicking human speech, but are also getting better and for worse. A new study of Reddit conversations found chatbots replicate our fondness for toxic language, with two prominent dialogue models twice as likely to agree with 'offensive' comments than 'safe' ones.
Building a brand and cultivating an audience requires time and energy and a willingness to hustle. However, gaining an audience is difficult as luck, good timing, and help from social media platforms' mysterious algorithms.
‘Digital transformation’ sounds like a parody of meaningless tech marketing, but actually captures some pretty interesting and important shifts in big company tech. It’s not as exciting as crypto or AR, and it takes a decade or two, but it’s just as big as smartphones.
Facebook is expanding an experiment in reducing political content in the News Feed to Costa Rica, Sweden, Spain, and Ireland. The company says it’s seen “positive results” in reducing this content for some users in a handful of countries, adding that it will more heavily weigh signals like “how likely people are to provide us with negative feedback on posts about political topics and current events.
South Korea passed legislation regulating mobile app stores and restrictions imposed on app developers dictating which payment systems they are forced to use, opening the door to alternative purchase options, allowing app developers to bypass Apple and Google's 30% commission and accept payment directly from consumers. The law also forbids store owners from delaying the approval of apps or from removing apps out of retaliation.
