Facebook is reportedly throwing its hat in the ring to compete with Clubhouse, the buzzy social app based on audio chats. The social media giant’s employees have been ordered to develop a product, known internally as Fireside, that’s similar to Clubhouse, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two people with knowledge of the matter. An invite-only …
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Apple should launch its own cryptocurrency exchange, an analyst report suggested Monday. The report by Canadian brokerage firm RBC Capital Markets, spotted earlier by Coindesk, said that since Apple Wallet is used by millions in an increasingly cashless society, Apple could easily generate over $40 billion by making the jump to cryptocurrency. “If Apple went down this path, the USA …
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Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on the invite-only, audio-based social app Clubhouse on Thursday night. The news comes less than a week after Tesla’s Elon Musk did the same. Zuckerberg talked about Facebook’s Reality Labs group, noting how virtual reality and augmented reality technology can widen the scope for remote work, according to Business Insider, which reported on …
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Venmo will expand its functionality in the coming months, according to an earnings call with the app’s parent company, PayPal. Not only will users be able to send a few bucks to a friend quickly, but they’ll also have the option to buy some cryptocurrency, save money and even keep up to date on shopping deals with integrated tools from …
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Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer cloud computing in spacecraft and fleets of satellites through its Azure service, the tech giant said Tuesday. The move comes four months after Amazon announced that its Web Services unit is expanding into space. The company is also expanding its partnership with Luxembourg’s SES SA, which has a network of larger …
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A week after hackers hijacked dozens of high-profile Twitter accounts including former US President Barack Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the social media company revealed Wednesday that attackers managed to gain access to the direct messages of 36 of those accounts. The social media company also said the Twitter inbox of one elected official in the Netherlands had been accessed, …
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Lyndsay Tucker, a 25-year-old skin care consultant at Sephora, gets a lot of calls about bionic limbs and people volunteering to go to space. That’s because her phone number once belonged to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Tucker gets at least three calls or texts meant for Musk each day, she told NPR, in a Thursday report. That volume …
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Spotify continues to amp up its podcast push. On Tuesday, comedian Joe Rogan said his popular podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, would be heading exclusively to Spotify. As part of a multi-year licensing deal, the show will be available on Spotify starting in September and become exclusive to the platform near the end of the year. The podcast, including the …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter saw a big bump in daily users during the first quarter as people turned to the site for real-time information about the coronavirus outbreak. Even so, uncertainty about the economy is casting a shadow over the company. For the first quarter, Twitter …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Twitter said Friday that President Donald Trump’s tweets calling for the liberation of three states where people are protesting coronavirus lockdowns don’t run afoul of its rules against content that could pose a risk to people’s health. Under new guidance that Twitter released …
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