News El Salvador to Build a Bitcoin City President Nayib Bukele says it will be a fully functional city with shopping centers, residential and commercial areas, museums, a railway, a port, an airport, etc. No income taxes will be levied in the city, except for VAT.
News Caviar Unveils an iPhone 13 Pro Made Out of a Tesla Car Russian company Caviar, which is famous for creating premium versions of popular gadgets, presented a limited-edition iPhone 13 Pro dubbed "Electro," which is dedicated to Elon Musk and his electric car company Tesla, as well as a desktop bust of Elon Musk.
News Bitcoin Got Updated for the First Time in 4 Years The update primarily concerns the improvement of transactions' privacy and efficiency. It will also unlock the potential of smart contracts, which will provide the ability to conduct transactions without intermediaries.
News Bill Gates Shared 5 Books He Loved Reading in 2021 As he grew older, Gates became fond of non-fiction books since he felt it was important to learn something about the real world as well. Gates noted that this year, he found himself drawn to the books he would have liked as a kid.
News Apple Will Let Mac and iPhone Owners Repair Their Own Devices Apple announced the launch of the Self Service Repair program for iPhone and Mac owners. It will initially launch in the United States in early 2022 and will first only be available for iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups and Macs with M1 chips.
News Meta's AI Team Is Working on a Thin Robot Skin and Touch Sensors The metaverse the company is working on should provide a close imitation of reality in the virtual world. That is why Meta is developing new sensors to simulate one of the human sensations – the touch.
News Instagram Asks Some Users to Take a Video Selfie to Verify Their Identity Instagram is now using a new way of verifying the identity of users. The social media platform asks some users to take video selfies from different angles. This feature is said to help make sure that an account is operated by a real person and not a bot.
News Microsoft Introduces Mesh for Teams to Collaborate in the Metaverse Microsoft plans to combine its software products into a single metaverse where people can interact with each other using augmented and virtual reality. In Mesh for Teams, users can create their own virtual 3D avatar and use it during meetings.
News Twitter Blue Is Now Available for Users From the US and New Zealand This subscription allows users to read ad-free articles from over 300 US news sites, including The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic. Twitter promises to donate a portion of the revenue to the publishers that participate in the subscription.
News YouTube to Stop Displaying the Dislike Count on Videos By hiding the dislike count, the company wants to protect authors with a small number of subscribers from dislike attacks and foster a respectful relationship between content creators and their viewers.
News Instagram Was Duped Into Believing Its CEO Was Dead The scammer abused the memorialization feature of Instagram, which one can use to inform the moderators about the death of the owner of the Instagram page. Such an account becomes impossible to edit or delete, and you cannot log into it.
News Apple Will Soon Let Your Family Access Your iCloud Data When You Die With the Digital Legacy feature, you can choose up to five people who will gain access to your iCloud data after you die. Heirs will need to provide a death certificate of the account holder and a special access key to log into their account.
News Instagram Now Lets All Users Add Links to Their Stories Instagram has announced a new feature that allows all users, regardless of the number of their followers and account status, to attach clickable links to their Stories. Previously, this feature was only available to popular or verified accounts.
News Boston Dynamics' Robots Recreated the Rolling Stones' Iconic Music Video It should be noted that this video is interesting not only as a form of entertainment. It also shows the evolution of robots developed by Boston Dynamics, which are now more agile and less clumsy.
News Xiaomi Unveils the New Lineup of Redmi Note 11 Smartphones Xiaomi has held a Chinese presentation of the new Redmi Note 11 line of smartphones. It features three models: Redmi Note 11, Note 11 Pro, and Note 11 Pro +. It is unknown when the global presentation of the Redmi Note 11 lineup will take place.
News Facebook Changed Its Company Name to Meta The name Meta should reflect the new direction the company plans to take – creating the so-called metaverse. The main goal of the metaverse is to connect people and help them communicate easily even if they are far away from each other.
News Elon Musk's Boring Company Gets Approval for Las Vegas Tunnel System One of Elon Musk's startups, Boring Company, has received approval from local authorities to build a network of high-speed underground tunnels near Las Vegas. The Vegas Loop tunnel system will stretch for 29 miles (46.6 km) with 51 stations available.
News Instagram Introduced Collabs and Other New Features Instagram will now let its users upload photos and videos via a browser on a computer. Previously, users could only create posts in the app, while they could only view and like posts in the browser.
News Microsoft Is Shutting Down LinkedIn in China Due to Increased Censorship LinkedIn, the social networking platform for professionals, will cease operations in China this year. It will be replaced with a new job search application called InJobs that won't have a news feed or the ability to share content.
News Apple Unveiled New MacBook Pro, Next-Gen AirPods, and HomePod Mini The new laptops have no Touch Bar but feature the return of MagSafe, an SD card slot, an HDMI port, and an improved headphone jack. According to the Cupertino company, the MacBook Pro supports fast charging.
News Facebook to Change Its Name to Reflect Focus on the Metaverse Facebook, which owns the social network of the same name, as well as Instagram and WhatsApp, intends to announce plans to rename itself, which would reflect the company's focus on the metaverse.
News Instagram to Warn Users About App Crashes if They Are Confused Instagram admitted that technical problems and sudden outages can make users confused. Lack of clarity about what’s going on can be frustrating, so developers want to notify users about such outages and other problems.
News Facebook Is Developing AI That Will See the World Through Human Eyes Ego4D will record and analyze real-time videos from the users' devices to help people in their daily lives. The project is being developed by Facebook specialists and scientists from 13 universities and labs across nine countries.
News Google Will Make 2-Factor Authentication on by Default Together with millions of Google users, more than two million content creators on YouTube will also switch to two-factor authentication by the end of this year. Google states that users will also be able to use security keys for authorization.
News Instagram Is Rebranding IGTV as Instagram TV IGTV will be rebranded and renamed to Instagram TV. From now on, users will be able to publish videos of up to 60 minutes long directly in the Instagram feed, while previously, they could be found in a separate section of IGTV.
