If your dream job is to crank out TikTok clips for a living, then you might be in luck. On Thursday, the popular and controversial app announced the TikTok Creator Fund, a pool of $200 million for users in the US “to help support ambitious creators who are seeking opportunities to foster a livelihood through their innovative …
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23 July
Quibi lets you screenshot now (if you know a cheat code)
Quibi, a mobile streaming service that launched in April, now lets viewers screenshot its shows, the company’s head of product Tom Conrad said in a Twitter thread Thursday — a seemingly simple function but one that’s crucial to building social-media buzz for shows. Everyone! start your meme maker: Mock the Golden Arm with precise photographic evidence! Share your cel-drawn horoscope …
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23 July
Facebook ditches Like button in new Page design test
Facebook is testing a new design for some celebrity and business Pages on its mobile app. The social media giant said on Wednesday that the experimental update removes the Like button and the Page’s number of Likes to put more focus on the follower count. The new layout, which was reported earlier by TechCrunch, aims to make it easier for …
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23 July
5G will change the way we play games and use VR
My mother-in-law is used to seeing me always carrying a new gadget. She was there when I strapped on my first smartwatch in 2013, and she’s seen me excitedly try out new camera lenses that attach to my phone. But it was different the time I first showed her a virtual reality headset. After she cautiously strapped the $199 Oculus Go on her head, the …
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23 July
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T-Mobile is preparing to make support for Voice over LTE a requirement for all new devices, according to a report Thursday. The move was reportedly detailed in internal T-Mobile documents obtained by Android Police. The requirement won’t mean much for users at first, but as of January 2021, “T-Mobile will require all devices connecting to our nationwide 4G LTE and 5G networks …
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23 July
Apple and Verizon partner on robocall protection
Apple is working with Verizon to make spam call blocking native in iOS 14, the companies said Thursday. The feature will be available in the public beta of the OS update, though users need to have Verizon’s Call Filter Plus. The new Apple feature, called Silence Junk Callers, is designed to recognize calls that Verizon’s network identifies as being potential …
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23 July
Galaxy Note 20 images leak ahead of Samsung event
Samsung plans to introduce five new devices at its Unpacked event on Aug. 5, likely including the rumored Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra. But we may be getting an early look at the phones thanks to some mobile tipsters. On Wednesday, tech site WinFuture and frequent leaker Evan Blass (via a private Twitter account) both shared purported images of …
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23 July
LinkedIn adapts to job seeking while social distancing
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the US job market hard, forcing businesses to close and a historic 21 million of people to file for unemployment since the middle of March. And though the number of new filings have begun to slow in recent weeks, the unemployment rate in June was 11.1%. The same period last year it was just 3.7%. …
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23 July
Razer’s Cynosa entry
The Razer Cynosa Chroma is one of the best inexpensive gaming keyboards you can get — and Razer’s sold a lot of them, as it was named the best-selling membrane gaming keyboard in the US by research firm The NPD Group. The Cynosa V2 was announced Thursday and looks like it should have no trouble holding onto that title since it …
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23 July
OnePlus Nord hands
A OnePlus phone with 5G, high-end specs and an affordable price tag? Say hello to the OnePlus Nord. OnePlus has always been known for doing more affordable handsets, but its phones have been getting increasingly expensive, with the top-end OnePlus 8 Pro sitting almost exactly at that $1,000 threshold. The company’s new phone, called the Nord, aims to change that. …
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