News Twitter Launches Super Follows Paid Subscription Macro Strategist: James Sterling To follow someone, tap the Super Follow button in their account profile. You will see a description of available paid offers and prices. When you follow someone, you will see subscriber-only content in your feed.
News Apple Will Not Scan iPhones for Child Abuse Images Over Criticism Macro Strategist: James Sterling Apple announced an operating system update that will have a feature for scanning images when they are uploaded to iCloud and checking them for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) last month.
News 12-Year-Old Boy Made Almost $400,000 Selling NFTs Based on Whale Pics Macro Strategist: James Sterling 12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed from the UK made about $400,000 selling NFT tokens with pictures of whales. The boy is fond of programming and Minecraft, so he decided to create a collection of whales of the same style and encoded them in NFTs.
News Stack Overflow's Rating Names the Most Loved and Dreaded Programming Languages Macro Strategist: James Sterling The Stack Overflow coding Q&A service surveyed developers worldwide to find out which programming languages they like to work with the most and which ones they hate the most.
News Elon Musk Unveiled a Humanoid Robot Tesla Bot Macro Strategist: James Sterling Tesla Bot will use the same chips and sensors used in the company's electric vehicles. Musk says Tesla can now be considered the world's largest robotics company because its electric vehicles are practically semi-intelligent robots on wheels.
News Facebook Launches Horizon Workrooms for Virtual Work Collaboration Macro Strategist: James Sterling Facebook has released an open beta version of the Horizon Workrooms app for the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset for all countries. This is the company's first attempt to create a VR collaboration app.
News Facebook Messenger Will Have End-to-End Encrypted Calls Macro Strategist: James Sterling Facebook has introduced end-to-end encryption for Messenger calls in light of the growing interest in voice and video calls over the past year. The new feature will help position the company's service as more private and secure.
News TikTok Will Turn Off Late-Night Notifications for Teens Macro Strategist: James Sterling One of the most notable changes is related to push notifications. From now on, user accounts of teenagers aged 13-15 will no longer receive push notifications after 9PM, and teens aged 16-17 will stop receiving them after 10PM.
News WhatsApp Now Lets You Transfer Chats From iOS to Android Macro Strategist: James Sterling The platform will soon roll out a handy feature that will be appreciated by users who wish to switch between iOS and Android. This means that you will be able to quickly transfer the complete chat history from an iPhone to an Android smartphone.
News Samsung Unveils Next-Gen Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic Macro Strategist: James Sterling The Galaxy Watch4 series includes the first wearable Samsung gadgets with a Wear OS-based One UI Watch, an intuitive user interface. Among other features, the company's new wearable devices can calculate body composition.
News Xiaomi Unveils Its Quadruped Robot CyberDog Macro Strategist: James Sterling CyberDog is equipped with sensors and cameras throughout its body, which allows it to plot a route, overcome obstacles, and follow its owner. It also has three USB Type-C connectors and even an HDMI port to customize it.
News YouTube Is Testing New Premium Lite Subscription With No Ads Macro Strategist: James Sterling The Premium Lite subscription will be cheaper than the basic one. Users who opt for it will not be able to download videos to watch them offline or use the background playback feature. Premium Lite only provides an ad-free experience.
News Microsoft Adds Super Duper Secure Mode to Its Edge Browser Macro Strategist: James Sterling Microsoft announced another experimental feature for its Edge browser called Super Duper Secure Mode. To make the browser super-duper-secure, the developers have disabled the JavaScript engine's Just-In-Time (JIT) feature, which improves performance.
News Google Is Paying $2.15 to Google+ Users Affected by a Data Leak Macro Strategist: James Sterling The lawsuit was filed after Google failed to disclose a vulnerability in the Google+ API for third-party application developers. Using this vulnerability, attackers could gain access to such personal data of users as name, gender, age, and email address.
News iPhone Will Warn Parents and Kids About Child Abuse Images Macro Strategist: James Sterling The new feature is likely to be very useful for parents or the police, but many data privacy experts are already concerned about the announcement, including Matthew D. Green, an associate professor of cryptography at Johns Hopkins University.
News Apple Removes Anti-Vaxx Dating App Unjected From App Store Macro Strategist: James Sterling Apple removed Unjected, a dating app for people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19, from its App Store because this app violated the store's rules regarding coronavirus misinformation.
News Elon Musk's Neuralink Raises $205 Million From a Group of Investors Macro Strategist: James Sterling The company attracted a record $205 million in investments from Google Ventures, the Dubai fund Vy Capital and several other investors, including DFJ Growth, Valor Equity Partners, Craft Ventures, Founders Fund, and Gigafund.
News Zoom Will Pay Users $85 Million for Violating Their Privacy Macro Strategist: James Sterling The company made the corresponding decision because of the class action lawsuit claiming that Zoom violated users' privacy rights by sharing their data with Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn. Thus, hackers could disrupt Zoom meetings.
News Sylvester.ai Developed an App That Determines Cats' Mood and Emotions Macro Strategist: James Sterling The developers believe the app will be helpful for both pet owners and young vets who have little experience with animals. However, it is important to remember that one should pay attention to the pet's entire body to know if the cat is okay.
News Mercedes-Benz Will Switch to Electric-Only Cars by 2030 Macro Strategist: James Sterling The automaker will unveil three new electric platforms that will form the basis of future cars, trucks, and supercars: MB.EA, AMG.EA and VAN.EA. In addition, the company will build eight factories around the world to achieve the new goals.
News Instagram Will Make Young People' Accounts Private by Default Macro Strategist: James Sterling Starting July 28, all Instagram profiles of teens under 16 will be private by default. This means that only those approved by the account owner will be able to view teens' photos and other content.
News Zoom to Acquire Five9 Cloud Contact Center Software Developer for $14.7 billion Macro Strategist: James Sterling Zoom expects that the acquisition of Five9 will help it expand its presence on the market and accelerate growth. The company also plans to leverage Five9's customer base and resources for the development of its cloud phone service, Zoom Phone.
News Google's Parent Company Alphabet Creates a Unit to Develop Software for Industrial Robots Macro Strategist: James Sterling Robotics has been the obsession of Google for many years, but the initiatives in this area have not brought any commercial results for the company so far. Industrial robots are being developed rapidly today, so the need for software will only grow.
News Instagram Users Can Now Control Sensitive Content in the Explore Feed Macro Strategist: James Sterling Instagram notes that sensitive content is now limited by default, but users over 18 now have tools that will allow them to independently decide whether they want to see such posts in their Explore feed.
News Ethereum's Co-Founder Anthony Di Iorio Quits Cryptocurrency Macro Strategist: James Sterling In the coming weeks, he plans to sell his company Decentral and refocus on charity and non-cryptocurrency businesses. The entrepreneur expects to quit other startups over time, and he does not intend to fund blockchain projects anymore.
