Month: May 2021

TikTok appointed Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporean national, as the new Chief Executive Officer of the hot video-sharing platform, the company said on Friday. Chew, based in Singapore, will retain close ties to TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance where he will remain Chief Financial Officer. “We will continue building out our strong and deep management team
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Instagram is one of the most popular social media apps and it allows users to share photos and videos with their friends, contacts, and followers. You can follow other Instagram users or creators and over the years, Instagram has become a popular advertising platform as well. It shows each user a feed that is based
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Twitter will struggle to replicate a bumper 2020 dominated by the US political battles, civil unrest, and the COVID-19 crisis as people venture out following vaccine rollouts, Wall Street analysts said on Friday. The lifting of restrictions as people get vaccinated has largely seen benefiting other digital ad firms such as Facebook and Alphabet’s Google
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In today’s modern economy, banks and governments have the absolute power and authority to accept or deny transactions involving fiat currencies such as the US dollar. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin take a different approach, eliminating the need for such authorities. In the absence of such regulatory bodies, digital currencies use consensus mechanisms to ensure fair governance—similar
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Messenger and Instagram Direct are among the two most popular messaging services out there. Despite millions of people using them every day, Messenger and Instagram Direct are not really privacy-friendly as they do not end-to-end encrypt chats by default. Facebook has now promised that it will roll out end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct “in 2022 at
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What was the first object in space to be successfully photographed? The Moon, way back in 1840. Monkey see, monkey do. Astrophotography makes the wonder of our natural world accessible to the layman. It offers a glimpse into the heavens above, bringing us closer to what compels the greatest minds of every era to look
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Microsoft is improving Bluetooth audio experience on Windows 10 by bringing support for Advanced Audio Codec (AAC). This will allow users to get better audio from Bluetooth headphones and speakers supporting AAC codec. The Redmond company is also bringing a unified audio endpoint to Windows 10 to offer a seamless interface when connected to multiple
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