Month: May 2020

TikTok has a new competitor: Zynn, a nearly button-for-button clone of TikTok that differentiates itself with one key twist — it pays users to sign up, watch videos, and convince others to follow suit. The app launched at the beginning of May, and as Mashable noticed, it’s now the number one free app in Apple’s App Store and in the … Continue reading A new TikTok clone hit the top of the App Store by paying users to watch videos Continue Reading →

“We should enable as much discussion as possible,” Zuckerberg says in a post Facebook will not remove or take any other action on a President Trump post that Twitter removed for “glorifying violence,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday. “I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up, but our position is that … Continue reading Facebook won’t take any action on Trump’s post about shootings in Minnesota Continue Reading →

‘We will re-enable that filter in the next OTA.’ OnePlus accidentally pushed an over-the-air update that disables a filter that can see through some thin black plastics and, in certain cases, clothes. Though OnePlus said on May 19 that it would temporarily disable the filter in the Chinese version of its operating system in an update, the company hadn’t … Continue reading OnePlus inadvertently disables ‘X-Ray’ filter with an update sent to its global phones Continue Reading →

There’s no word on when it may occur, or in what form. The launch of the Android 11 beta had already been delayed after Google I/O was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, and now it’s getting pushed back again. A virtual launch event for the start of the beta release was scheduled for Wednesday, but Google has postponed … Continue reading The Android 11 beta launch event has been postponed Continue Reading →

Introduced in mid-2017, the Look was one of the more obscure — and, honestly, kind of bizarre — entries in the Echo line. It was a small camera designed to take videos and selfies of its owner, using machine learning to help choose outfits. No surprise, really, that it never caught fire. And now, three years after … Continue reading Echo Looks will cease functioning in July, as Amazon discontinues the camera Continue Reading →

Audi  has created a new business unit called Artemis to bring electric vehicles equipped with highly automated driving systems and other tech to market faster — the latest bid by the German automaker to become more agile and competitive. The traditional automotive industry, where the design to start of production cycle might take five to seven … Continue reading Audi launches high-tech car unit Artemis to fast-track a ‘pioneering’ EV to market Continue Reading →

In spite of a positive quarter with record revenue that beat analysts’ estimates, Salesforce stock was taking a hit today because of lighter guidance. Wall Street is a tough audience. The stock was down $8.29/share, or 4.58%, as of 2:15 pm ET. The guidance, which was a projection for next quarter’s earnings, was lighter than what the … Continue reading Salesforce stock is taking a hit today after lighter guidance in yesterday’s earning’s report Continue Reading →

Today, the online film festival We Are One is kicking off 10 days of films, talks, musical performances and VR experiences. The event is a collaboration between Tribeca Enterprises  (the organization behind the Tribeca Film Festival) and YouTube,  with help from 21 film festivals from around the world. Think of it as an attempt to recreate a little bit of the … Continue reading YouTube and Tribeca’s global online film festival starts today Continue Reading →

When this editor first met Jeremy Conrad, it was in 2014 in San Francisco, at the 8,000-square-foot former fish factory that was home to Lemnos, the hardware-focused venture firm Conrad co-founded three years earlier. Conrad — who’d studied mechanical engineering at MIT — was excited at the time about investing in hardware startups, having just closed a … Continue reading Jeremy Conrad left his own VC firm to start a company, and investors like what he’s building Continue Reading →

Sony  has been dishing out details on the PlayStation 5 piece-by-piece, rather than dropping all of the details at one big mega event. First came word of the Holiday 2020 release window. Then came an overview of the specs — like that it’ll have a super-fast solid-state drive by default. Most recently, they showed off the controller. (The divvied up approach … Continue reading Sony will show off the first PlayStation 5 games on June 4th Continue Reading →