Thursday, April 21, 2022
How to crop or resize images on WhatsApp
Sources: the EU is set to unveil the Digital Services Act, which bans targeting users based on religion, gender, and more, among other rules, on Friday (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
Sources: the EU is set to unveil the Digital Services Act, which bans targeting users based on religion, gender, and more, among other rules, on Friday — Digital Services Act lays out rules for technology groups to keep users safe online — The EU is poised to unveil a landmark law …
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Jio pips Airtel to become India's 2nd largest fixed-line service provider
Muslim matchmaking app Muzmatch loses the right to use its name after a UK court rules in favor of Match Group in a trademark dispute (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Muslim matchmaking app Muzmatch loses the right to use its name after a UK court rules in favor of Match Group in a trademark dispute — Muslim marriage start-up took ‘unfair advantage’ of association with term ‘match’, says UK court — Muslim marriage start-up Muzmatch has lost the right …
Analysis: half of Apple's top 200 suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, where China's COVID-19 lockdowns are disrupting activity (Nikkei Asia)
Analysis: half of Apple's top 200 suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, where China's COVID-19 lockdowns are disrupting activity — slong COVID lockdown in Shanghai is creating chaos for Apple suppliers based in and around the city. (Source photos by Getty Images and Reuters) …
Google and Meta restrict the accounts of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, John Lee, citing US sanctions from 2020 on Lee for crushing protests (Bloomberg)
Google and Meta restrict the accounts of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, John Lee, citing US sanctions from 2020 on Lee for crushing protests — Google and Meta Platforms Inc. moved on Wednesday to curtail the social media presence of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate …
Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live (Nicole Carpenter/Polygon)
Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live — From Xbox design director, to architect, to leading Xbox research and design — If you've subscribed to Game Pass or obsessed over Xbox achievements …
Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B (Ivan Levingston/Bloomberg)
Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B — Just Eat Takeaway.com NV said it's considering a partial or full sale of its Grubhub unit, just as the end of the pandemic has soured investors on food-delivery firms.
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Amazon reportedly working on a 'new-to-world' AR smart home product
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are "made up" and blames an issue with its site:operator search function (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says reports of the service removing piracy websites are “made up” and blames an issue with its site:operator search function — Blank site search results for The Pirate Bay gave users reason to believe otherwise
NASA moon rocket faces more flight delays following multiple failed fuelling tests
Facebook set to take on Clubhouse with these new features
Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 review: a small selection lacking many popular Android apps and compatibility is poor, making it almost useless for most users (Will Sattelberg/Android Police)
Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 review: a small selection lacking many popular Android apps and compatibility is poor, making it almost useless for most users — They're bad! — Android apps have, historically speaking, never been good on large displays. There's a reason Google is dedicating …
Karachi-based lending app Abhi, which offers loans to people and SMBs, raises a $17M Series A led by Speedinvest at a $90M valuation and says it has 650K users (Faseeh Mangi/Bloomberg)
Karachi-based lending app Abhi, which offers loans to people and SMBs, raises a $17M Series A led by Speedinvest at a $90M valuation and says it has 650K users — Pakistani financial platform Abhi Pvt. raised funds at a $90 million valuation within a year after introducing its business …
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
