The European Commission issued preliminary findings on Friday accusing Meta of building Facebook and Instagram to be addictive, giving the company a formal opportunity to respond before Brussels reaches a final decision that could trigger fines of up to 6% of its global annual revenue. Based on Metaâs 2025 turnover of roughly $201 billion, that [âŠ] This story continues at The Next Web Read more âș
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. One of the biggest pain points of using WhatsApp for years has been the inability to transfer chats between an iPhone and an Android phone. Till now, if you decided to switch, you had to mostly start over with no chat history on the... Read more âș
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Imagine youâre a whale. No, not a person who holds vast amounts of cryptocurrency. An actual whale swimming in the ocean. You can think of it as a leadership or creative-thinking experiment if it helps. Youâre swimming along and chatting with your pod as you do whale stuff. Everything is pretty much the same way itâs been for about 45 million years. And then suddenly a robot starts talking to... Read more âș
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Google Maps has recently added a number of cycling features as more people have taken to riding bikes, ebikes, and electric scooters during the coronavirus pandemic. And yet as much as I appreciate some of these updates, as Iâve started to explore other cycling-oriented applications, Google Mapsâ limitations have become increasingly obvious. Here are just a few changes that I believe could make Google Maps far more appealing to cyclists.... Read more âș
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Teslaâs deal with car-rental giant Hertz has generated some jaw-dropping numbers. The order of 100,000 Tesla Model 3s is potentially the largest ever purchase of electric vehicles. The announcement drove Teslaâs market value beyond $1 trillion on Monday and pumped up Elon Muskâs personal wealth up by $36 billion. The tycoon is now worth an eye-watering $289 billion. Our thoughts and prayers are are with Jeff Bezos at this difficult... Read more âș
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TLDR: This pocket-sized disk serves up incredible audio via its bone-conduction technology, turning almost any surface into a beefy amplifier. Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are fine when youâre plugged in with earbuds. But few of those devices are created with powerful (and prohibitively expensive) external speakers to listen easily without the use of headphones. Even at top volume, it might be enough to satisfy anyone within a 5-foot... Read more âș
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Bitcoinâs journey into mainstream finance has reached another major milestone â and another record price. The cryptocurrency was trading at US$66,975 (ÂŁ48,456) following the launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the US which has dramatically increased bitcoinâs exposure to investors. The fund, which opened on October 19, allows investors to speculate on the future value of bitcoin â without actually owning it. It is the first time investors have... Read more âș
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For decades, people have proclaimed the now-common refrain that âprivacy is dead.â I often think back to Scott McNealy, then CEO at Sun Microsystems, claiming in 1999 that âyou have zero privacy anyway⊠get over it.â I wouldnât go as far as saying that leaders at startups hold such a strong disregard for privacy, but I do find many taking the stance that the worldâs strictest data privacy laws donât... Read more âș
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If there was one positive to come out of the pandemic, it was the realization that watching shows and movies remotely with friends is actually Very Goodâą. And with the launch of iOS 15.1, Appleâs getting involved. So say hello to SharePlay. The feature was announced as a part of iOS 15 back in June at the companyâs WWDC developer conference, but its roll out was delayed. SharePlay is upping... Read more âș
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Jeff Bezos apparently wasnât satisfied with merely flying through space. The worldâs richest person now wants to occupy it. Bezosâ Blue Origin on Monday announced plans to build a commercial space station by the end of the decade. Announcing #OrbitalReef â a commercial space station transforming human space travel and opening access to new markets. Our team developing the premier commercial destination in low Earth orbit: @BlueOrigin @SierraSpaceCo @BoeingSpace @RedwireSpace... Read more âș
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Flick through a news feed on your phone and you are likely to scroll across an article discussing the heated rivalries of the new space race. Forget the geopolitical struggles of a cold war. This time, itâs Tesla CEO Elon Musk versus Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: the two richest men in the world duking it out over whether SpaceX or Blue Origin, their respective companies, will be the dominant force... Read more âș
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While Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen were racing for the Formula 1 title over the weekend, self-driving cars were fighting for the inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) championship. The Technical University of Munich (TUM) took the chequered flag at the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The team bagged a cool $1 million after hitting an average speed of 218 km/h on the fabled oval track. The contest was an impressive showcase... Read more âș
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Neuroscientists at Columbia University observed a curious thing. When they asked a group of test subjects to concentrate on a painting of an angel wielding a sword, they found it triggered responses in the subjectsâ wrists. Others have reported the sensation of dancing when observing Degasâ Ballerinas. This is due to a process called embodied cognition. When we view a piece of art, our brain mirrors actions depicted on the... Read more âș
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Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoftâs greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share than its successor, Windows Vista. When mainstream support for XP ended in April 2009, it was running on a huge 75% of Windows computers and about 19% of people were still using XP when extended... Read more âș
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TLDR: This VPN service allows ultra-fast, ultra-protected online activity anonymously, all for a one-time lifetime subscription price of just $39.99. Itâs never easy to know exactly how secure you are anywhere online. Most sites are capturing information about every visitor, whether their intentions are benevolent and begign, or aggressive and malicious. Then thereâs the worry about how assertively you need to be protected from place to place. Itâs one thing... Read more âș
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TLDR: This remote has all the buttons youâre used to, but it works with Apple TV units as well as your home set, all for under $30. You stream. I stream. We all stream. Everybody streams. And fewer and fewer of us are watching TV the old-fashioned way anymore. Change happensâŠbut it isnât always pretty. Especially for those who have spent decades watching their favorite shows with a trusty remote... Read more âș
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Over the weekend, the Apple iPod turned 20. To honor this, we created a deluge of content, including vox pops, how it got us through war, and comparing it to the Zune. But it wasnât just us getting involved in this celebration. The folks over at Panic gave us all another gift: a glimpse at a prototype of the original iPod. Take a look at this beauty: You can see... Read more âș
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The worldâs second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy of US$500 billion (ÂŁ363 billion). Thatâs still slightly less than half that of the biggest cryptocurrency, bitcoin. But could this upgrade, a vital step towards a much greener and faster version of the current system, put ethereum on... Read more âș
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COVID-19 has changed the way we work. Even before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce increasingly relied on remote collaboration technologies like videoconferencing and Slack. The global crisis accelerated the adoption of these work tools and practices in an unprecedented way. By April 2020, about half of companies reported that more than 80% of their employees worked from home because of COVID-19. That shift was made possible by decades of research... Read more âș
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Despite some cool product drops, last weekâs Apple Event was really about the notch. If youâve been living under a rock (oh, how I envy you), Apple announced its revamped MacBook Pro range on Monday. Overall, these appear to be excellent machines, but there was one major drawback: the display now has a notch. Yes, an actual notch. Like the damn iPhone. Oh god no please no. Unsurprisingly, this caused... Read more âș
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A newly published study in the journal PLoS ONE suggests spending time on screens is unlikely to be directly harmful to young children. The US study attracted global attention, as screen time has been commonly blamed for disrupting the healthy habits of our youth. Headlines announced âScreens are not as dangerous as you thinkâ, âScreens donât really hurt kidsâ, âKids are not harmed by long screen timesâ, âPotential benefits of... Read more âș
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