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Elon Musk declares you can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin in the US
Microsoft is rolling out a test build of Windows 10 that includes changes to the system icons you'll find in File Explorer, including the Recycle Bin, Documents folders, and devices like disk drives. The changes are fairly minor in the grand scheme of Windows, but they're part of a broader effort inside Microsoft to modernize Windows.
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Windows 10 is getting new File Explorer icons as part of a visual overhaul
Microsoft is rolling out a test build of Windows 10 that includes changes to the system icons you'll find in File Explorer, including the Recycle Bin, Documents folders, and devices like disk drives. The changes are fairly minor in the grand scheme of Windows, but they're part of a broader effort inside Microsoft to modernize Windows.
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IKEA's iconic catalog goes digital complete with an audio version
The IKEA Audio Catalog has been released on Spotify, Audiobooks.com, Spotify, and YouTube and YouTube as part of the company's transition to a digital format. The audio catalog is a 14-part narration that describes the company’s 2021 catalog, which is made up of 288 pages, but there are no photographs to accompany the descriptions.
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#1 Zoom now has an SDK for putting Zoom into other things
Zoom has released a new SDK to help developers build Zoom into their software, allowing developers to build their own video-based applications and websites on top of Zoom’s platform. The company hopes developers will use Zoom's chat functions in a number of different settings, from social media and gaming platforms to virtual retail apps.
Time magazine announced on Monday that it plans on getting into the crypto market, accepting cryptocurrencies as a form of payment for digital subscriptions within the next 30 days. The company will also be selling three of its magazine covers as non-fungible tokens. The move comes amid a boom for the digital collectibles industry.
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#1 Clubhouse says its Android launch will take ‘a couple of months’
Clubhouse has promised a time frame of sorts for the launch of its anticipated Android version, saying it's going to take a "couple of months" to make that happen. The company plans to make tweaks to the app’s Activity feed, tools to give users more control over their push notifications, and more personalization features.
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#2 Biden isn't likely to rekindle Obama's technocracy, but it's complicated
President-elect Joe Biden may have spent eight years in the administration that doted on tech, but that long honeymoon is over as the Russian interference saga opened the floodgates for social media's ills, unleashing dangerous torrents of extremism and misinformation.
The Biden administration's transition list is generously peppered with names from the tech industry, but some are likely grandfathered in from the Obama era rather than pulled directly for their more recent industry experience, including Matt Olsen, Uber's chief trust and security officer. The list also includes Aneesh Chopra and Nicole Wong, who previously worked at Twitter and Google.
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#3 YouTube is testing automatic product detection in videos
YouTube is testing an automated list of products detected in videos uploaded to the site, expanding to people watching videos in the US. The move is intended to give Google its own piece of the lucrative affiliate link market while also tying commerce directly to video uploads. The list will appear between recommended videos and viewers Scrolling below the video player.
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Trump returning to social media with 'his own platform' in 2-3 months
Trump will be back on social media in the near future with his own service, having been a prolific poster on that platform before and during his presidency. Trump has been having high-powered meetings at Mar-a-Lago with various teams regarding the venture, and that 'numerous companies' have approached Trump.
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TikTok banning some accounts in Myanmar in attempt to stop the spread of violent videos
TikTok has been banned in Myanmar in an attempt to curb the spread of violent videos and misinformation on its platform. The company has removed some videos from the platform earlier this month after media reports about the rise in hate speech and threats in the Southeast Asian nation.
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Facebook showcases wrist-worn AR interface concept
Facebook Reality Labs is working on a project to provide an alternative computer interface. The project is designed to use electromyography sensors to interpret motor nerve signals and interact with the interface accordingly. This is in line with the company's augmented reality efforts, which would add a layer of friction between you and your environment.
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NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million from a16z
OpenSea is one of several marketplaces that have been growing in popularity as collectors are trading nonfungible tokens on the blockchain. The startup announced today that it has closed a $23 million round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The money comes from angels and firms such as Naval Ravikant and Alexis Ohanian.
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NASA and SpaceX sign a special info sharing agreement to help avoid Starlink collisions
NASA has a standard set of guidelines to determine the risk of a close approach between in-space objects, which in turn could potentially result in a collision. The agency has published a new agreement between itself and SpaceX that goes above and beyond its standard Conjunction Assessment practices. This agreement is designed to benefit both parties involved.
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E-commerce will soon be a trillion-dollar industry in the US
E-commerce in the US is approaching a major milestone: In 2022, it will record its first trillion-dollar year, speeding US online sales to new heights far faster than they would have moved otherwise. Adobe estimates Covid-19 boosted the country’s e-commerce spending by 20%, or about $183 billion, while some of that activity is likely to return to stores once life gets back to normal.
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Google cuts app store fees for developers on first million in annual sales
Google announced on Tuesday that it will cut Google Play app store fees to 15% on the first million dollars a developer makes on Google’s store per year after developers cross the $1 million mark in sales for a year, charging developers its standard 30% fee for in-app purchases and downloads. The move follows a similar decision from Apple in December, although Apple only applies to developers who make under $1million per year from Apple’s App Store.
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China is building the (cheap) smart homes of the future
China is moving into the smart-home era well ahead of the rest of the world, with Xiaomi marshaling its experience in hardware manufacturing and taking advantage of China's lax privacy protections to achieve what Amazon and Google can only dream of: a total takeover of the home, all of which is connected to a mobile app.
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In a First, Uber Agrees to Classify British Drivers as ‘Workers’
Uber has been fighting attempts to reclassify drivers as company workers rather than lower-cost, self-employed freelancers, retreating from that hard-line stance in Britain after a major legal defeat. Uber will reclassified more than 70,000 drivers in Britain as workers who will receive a minimum wage, vacation pay and access to a pension plan.
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China wants to dismantle Alibaba's media empire: reports
The future of Jack Ma’s media empire in China is now in the crosshairs of the Chinese government. The Chinese authorities have ordered Alibaba to divest some of its media assets due to growing concerns about the company’s sway over public opinion in the country.
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Microsoft Teams, Exchange and more are still recovering from a Monday outage
Microsoft Teams was still recovering from an outage on Monday afternoon after a change to the authentication system took the service down. The outage has affected 115 million people who use the service every day, including teachers. This is the first major outage since Microsoft's Office 365 service went down in September.
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Facebook Agrees to Pay for Murdoch’s Australia News Content
Facebook has agreed to pay Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for its journalism content in Australia, a month after the social media platform temporarily blocked news links inside the country over legislation pressing digital giants to compensate publishers. The multiyear deal includes news content from major Murdoch conservative media outlets like The Australian, a national newspaper, and the news site news.com.au.
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How Yahoo News reached 1 million followers on TikTok in 1 year
The Yahoo News account now has 1.1 million followers, outpacing CBS News, USA Today, The Washington Post, NBC News, and NBC News and other sites. The company is also gaining a 24% increase in mobile web and app users compared to 2019. The content leans on straightforward news coverage and service journalism geared toward the platform's younger audience.
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Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale marks a potentially transformative moment for the art world
The auction of an NFT digital art collage from a relatively unrecognized digital artist ended with a purchase price above $69 million, a tacit endorsement from the stratospherically wealthy patrons of the fine art world that blockchain-minted digital art is an acceptable medium.
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Get the full news story with Full Coverage in Search
The Full Coverage feature was first introduced in 2018 as part of Google News, but it is now being rolled out in the U.S. to help people find top news and local headlines and explainers on developing news stories. The Full coverage page is now available on mobile devices.
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Apple rejected Parler's latest attempt to come back to the App Store
Apple recently rejected Parler's bid to get back onto iPhones, citing “highly objectionable content” Apple said the app needed to improve its content moderation and make a bigger effort to keep dangerous and hateful content off its platform. The company said the suspension would be in place until they received an update that is compliant with the App Store Review Guidelines.
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The inventor of the cassette tape has died
Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, passed away on March 6th. He started work on the cassette tape in the early 1960s, developing a way for people to listen to music that was affordable and accessible in the way that large reel-to-reel tapes at the time were.
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Security startup Verkada hack exposes 150,000 security cameras in Tesla factories, jails, and more
Verkada, a Silicon Valley security startup that provides cloud-based security camera services, has suffered a major security breach, with hackers gaining access to over 150,000 of the company’s cameras, including cameras in Tesla factories and warehouses, Cloudflare offices, Equinox gyms, hospitals, jails, schools, and Verkado own offices.
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YouTube New ‘Supervised’ Mode Will Let Parents Restrict Older Kids’ Video Viewing
YouTube is launching a new "supervised" YouTube account option aimed at parents who feel their tweens or teens have outgrown the walled-garden confines of the YouTube Kids app, but aren't yet ready for the weird, wide world of unrestricted YouTube. The supervised YouTube kid accounts will provide three content settings for parents, with content filters to restrict which videos they can watch.
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Square buys more bitcoin as Cash App users boost revenue
Square Inc doubled down on bitcoin with a $170 million investment as surging interest in trading among Cash App customers helped revenue more than double in the fourth quarter, showing growing revenues and growing base of Cash App users amid increased interest in both bitcoin and equities trading.
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Australia passes law forcing Google and Facebook to pay news publications
Australia passed a new media law that had generated noisy pushback from internet giants Google and Facebook, which didn't want to be forced to pay publishers for news content. The law is called the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code and requires Facebook and Google to negotiate licensing agreements with publishers.
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Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year
Spotify is launching a lossless streaming service that will let listeners get the most of their digital music. The service will cost $14.99 a month, which is a premium compared to Amazon Music Unlimited. The company has been testing higher-quality audio in the past.
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Apple Surpassed Samsung as World's Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter
Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, selling 80 million new iPhones, largely driven by the launch of the first 5G-enabled iPhone series. While Samsung saw its market share decrease by 11.8% and sold around eight million fewer devices compared to just one year ago, Apple's near 15% increase in market share yielded it an "upgrade super-cycle," according to Annette Zimmerman, an analyst for Apple at Gartner.
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Microsoft joins forces with European news publishers
Microsoft has joined forces with Europe’s publishers to deepen the troubles of Google and Facebook, launching a project to develop an Australia-style arbitration system for the EU that would force Big Tech to pay for news. The move by the Seattle-based company is one of its most brazen yet to align with the press industry, exploit the difficulties of its Silicon Valley rivals and promote its own search engine Bing as a copyright-friendly alternative for news.
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Microsoft announces Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year
Microsoft is releasing two new versions of Office 2021, a consumer Office 2021 version and Office LTSC(Long-Term Servicing Channel) for commercial customers, which will be available later this year for both Windows and macOS. The new version will include dark mode support, accessibility improvements, and features like Dynamic Arrays and XLOOKUP in Excel.
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'Reckless, arrogant and dangerous': Outrage as Facebook blocks access to news content in Australia
Facebook is being criticized across Australia following its sudden decision to block
news content there, amid a dispute over whether the social media company should be required to pay for stories. Australians woke up Thursday to find they were unable to view or share news items on their Facebook feeds while the pages of local and international news organizations were blank.
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China unveils plan to reshape manufacturing with internet of things
Beijing is looking to sharpen the global competitiveness of “Made-in-China” products with a new plan to accelerate the use of information technology in traditional manufacturing sectors, embarking on a technology-driven transformation of manufacturing to offset rising production costs and consolidate its position as the world’s workshop.
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Report: Social audio app Clubhouse has topped 8 million global downloads – TechCrunch
Clubhouse has now topped 8 million global downloads, despite still being in a prelaunch, invite-only mode, growing from over 3.5 million to 8.1 million by February 16, 2021. This sharp growth is attributed to several high-profile guest appearances, including those from Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, for example.
