The Disney Plus streaming service is home to a large selection of movies and TV shows from all of the studio's major brands, including the Star Wars franchise, starting with 1977's "A New Hope" and concluding with 2019's "The Rise of Skywalker," available to watch right now.
Apple announced that it has acquired Primephonic, a service that specializes in streaming the classical genre and will incorporate the app’s functionality and playlists into Apple Music. The result will be “a significantly improved classical music experience,” and a standalone Apple Music classical app will be coming sometime in 2022.
China has implemented strict new regulations that only allow minors in the country to play video games for one hour a day on the weekends and holidays. The new restrictions will ban minors from playing videos games at all between Monday and Thursday. The regulations don't name a specific age range, but past rules have targeted those under the age of 18.
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.
