Potato chips 🥔 by Google: You biting it?
YouTube paid $6 billion to the music industry in 12 months
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Twitter: US datacenter melted down in Labor Day heat
Earlier this month extreme heat downed a Twitter datacenter in California over the Labor Day weekend, leaving the website and app working on bare-bones infrastructure.
The temperature in downtown Sacramento, California, that day – Labor Day in the US – reached a record high of 113°F or 45°C, and local temperature records were broken again within days.
YouTube paid $6 billion to the music industry in 12 months
In the 12 months between July 2021 and June 2022, YouTube paid over $6B to the music industry.
UGC drove over 30% of payouts for artists, songwriters and rights-holders, for the second year in a row.
Meta to launch Discord-like ‘Community Chats’ on Messenger
Community Chats can be started from both Messenger and Facebook Groups. Meta has already started adding some features to messenger that are reminiscent of Slack or Discord.
Google launches potato chips ad campaign to promote Pixel 7 in Japan
Google is set to unveil the Pixel 7 series in less than a month, and now it’s hyping up the upcoming phones with a promotional campaign that brings back its original potato chips.
Electronics Arts introduces kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC games
Electronics Arts (EA) is launching a new kernel-level anti-cheat system for its PC games. The EA AntiCheat (EAAC) will debut first in FIFA 23 later this fall.
China accuses NSA of hacking its elite research university
China claims that America’s National Security Agency used sophisticated cyber tools to hack into an elite Chinese research university.
Jio Satellite gets approval from DoT to start broadband-from-space services
A Reliance Jio unit has just received a key approval from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to start high-speed broadband-from-space services.
HCL Technologies sacks over 300 employees working on Microsoft project
One of India’s largest software companies HCL Technologies has fired over 300 employees who were primarily working on its client Microsoft’s news-related products.
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Brother of ex-Coinbase manager pleads guilty to insider trading charge
Prosecutors say Ishan Wahi, the former product manager, shared confidential information with his brother and their friend Sameer Ramani about new digital assets Coinbase was planning to let users trade.
SWIFT financial system is testing blockchain in partnership with Symbiont
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication disclosed on Tuesday a partnership with fintech company Symbiont to provide more accurate data for financial firms through blockchain technology.
Apple plans to unveil new spots for ads in App Store by year-end
Apple is planning to release new ad “placements” as soon as the holiday season. The new ad units represent a significant expansion in Apple’s advertising inventory, which is focused on its App Store.
What Twitter whistleblower Mudge told Congress
Mudge said Twitter does not fully understand the scale of what data it collects.
Mudge told the panel that the spy was an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS, the country’s main intelligence agency
Meta collaborates with govt ministry to support XR technology-based startups across India
Meta will incubate 40 early-stage extended reality (XR) startups from India and provide a grant of₹20 lakhs to each as part of a new accelerator called XR Startup Program in collaboration with MeitY.
Apple to bring ‘Clean Energy Charging’ to iPhones later this year
A feature called Clean Energy Charging, which Apple will roll out in the US as part of an update later this year, will optimize charging times to take into account.
With this setting enabled, iPhone will figure out your daily charging routine and limit the battery’s charge to 80 percent until close to when you’re going to start using your iPhone.