Monday, June 6, 2022
How to turn on Snapchat dark mode on an Android phone
A profile of billionaire crypto investor Mike Novogratz, who got a Luna tattoo before its collapse and whose publicly traded Galaxy Digital is down 69% YTD (Wall Street Journal)
A profile of billionaire crypto investor Mike Novogratz, who got a Luna tattoo before its collapse and whose publicly traded Galaxy Digital is down 69% YTD — The Wall Street star became so enamored with cryptocurrencies he had one of them tattooed to his arm. Then the market crashed.
How to easily search for tweets by date on Twitter
Sunday, June 5, 2022
Banks, merchants push for card tokenisation as deadline looms
Reco, which monitors organizations' internal and external data sharing for security issues, raises a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners and Zeev Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Reco, which monitors organizations' internal and external data sharing for security issues, raises a $30M Series A led by Insight Partners and Zeev Ventures — Reco (also known as RecoLabs), a company using AI to map a company's data sharing, today announced that it raised $30 million …
What to expect at WWDC: overhauled iOS 16 lock screen with widgets, more laptop-like iPadOS 16 multitasking, redesigned MacBook Air, and more, but no headset (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
What to expect at WWDC: overhauled iOS 16 lock screen with widgets, more laptop-like iPadOS 16 multitasking, redesigned MacBook Air, and more, but no headset — Apple's 33rd annual Worldwide Developers Conference is set to kick off on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 a.m. Like the 2020 and 2021 events …
Apple is working on VR versions of FaceTime and Maps, SwiftUI for AR and VR apps, and a way for its headset to extend a Mac's display, bringing it into 3D (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Apple is working on VR versions of FaceTime and Maps, SwiftUI for AR and VR apps, and a way for its headset to extend a Mac's display, bringing it into 3D — Apple is set to hold its WWDC event on Monday, ushering in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, tvOS 16, watchOS 9 and macOS 13.
In an email chain mistakenly forwarded to Politico, an Amazon spokesperson asked a consultant to push a narrative that the AICO Act would harm people of color (Emily Birnbaum/Politico)
In an email chain mistakenly forwarded to Politico, an Amazon spokesperson asked a consultant to push a narrative that the AICO Act would harm people of color — It's the latest instance of a tech company arguing that regulation would harm communities of color.
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Google stops businesses from using RCS for promotions in India, following reports that top banks and other companies are abusing the feature to send spam (TechCrunch)
Google stops businesses from using RCS for promotions in India, following reports that top banks and other companies are abusing the feature to send spam — Google has disabled businesses ability to use RCS for promotion in India, the company's biggest market by users …
Meituan reports Q1 revenue of $6.9B, up 25% YoY, and a net loss of ~$855M, propelled by a 47% YoY increase in revenue from new businesses such as ride-hailing (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)
Meituan reports Q1 revenue of $6.9B, up 25% YoY, and a net loss of ~$855M, propelled by a 47% YoY increase in revenue from new businesses such as ride-hailing — Meituan's quarterly revenue grew 25%, after the Chinese food delivery titan withstood the economic fallout from coronavirus-related lockdowns in cities such as Shanghai.
Sources: Apple enlisted Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to develop video content for its MR headset that resembles ski goggles and may ship in 2023 (New York Times)
Sources: Apple enlisted Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to develop video content for its MR headset that resembles ski goggles and may ship in 2023 — The company has enlisted Hollywood directors like Jon Favreau to help its effort to create products that blend the physical and virtual worlds.
WhatsApp may soon bring an ‘undo’ button for deleted messages
A look at "migrant TikTok", content by and for migrants journeying to Europe, as platforms struggle to moderate videos referring to illegal smuggling (Betsy Joles/Rest of World)
A look at “migrant TikTok”, content by and for migrants journeying to Europe, as platforms struggle to moderate videos referring to illegal smuggling — Videos on the harrowing journey between Africa and Europe offer valuable information — and tease a brighter future for migrants
A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufacturing, AI's unpopularity, and more (Newcomer)
Newcomer : A look at some themes at this year's Hill and Valley Forum: embracing government-led industrial policy to onshore manufact...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal : An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by ...
