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Will gyms go the way of arcades and movie rental stores?

Going to the gym was always part of Kari Hamra’s routine until last year’s government-ordered shutdowns forced her to replace the workouts with daily rides on her Peloton stationary bike. That’s when she discovered something surprising — she did not miss the gym. At least not the driving back and forth, filling water bottles, changing […]

Sony acquires Crunchyroll, leaving anime fans with unanswered questions

AT&T has officially sold Crunchyroll to Sony, bringing two of the world’s biggest anime streaming competitors in Sony’s hands. For the increasingly growing anime fan base, this is game-changing news. In an attempt to close the company’s $170 million debt, the telco sold its largest anime streaming platform for a sum amounting to $1.175 billion. […]

Safaricom will offer mobile money services in Ethiopia

Ethiopia will allow the Safaricom-led consortium to offer mobile money services throughout the country, signaling the end of Ethio Telecom’s monopoly over the service, local media reported late last week.   This step follows the government’s announcement earlier last week of re-opening bidding on second operator license including the right to operate mobile financial services.  Previously, any new entrant was barred from offering any mobile money based […]

Google Maps will alert drivers when entering a low-emission zone

Google Maps introduced a new feature alerting drivers before they enter a low-emission zone with fees or fines, the company said in a blog post.   The application aims to help drivers in detecting these areas beforehand, as it is not clear where these zones begin.   During this stage, the navigation app will begin rolling out this feature to drivers across Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, London, and Paris.  Currently, London’s Ultra […]

Streaming services took over Britons’ households in 2020, report finds

It’s common sense by now that the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic had a hand in increasing the hours people spent glued to the blue hue of their digital devices. However, we now have the exact numbers on how high the surge was for Britons’ households.  Thanks to research from the UK’s media regulator Ofcom, Britons are currently aware that they spent a third of their waking hours (more than 2,000 hours) watching TV or online […]

Facebook rolls out simplified setting page design

Facebook unveiled on Wednesday its redesigned setting page enabling Android, iOS, mobile web, and FB Lite users to find tools in a simplified way.   “Whether it’s managing the ads people see, adjusting sharing settings, or curating an audience for posts, people shouldn’t have to think too hard about where to start,” said Facebook in a blog post.   The Big […]

FTC official raps Facebook for booting political ads probe

A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook’s move to shut down the personal accounts of two academic researchers and terminate their probe into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook wrongly used a 2019 data-privacy settlement with the FTC to justify shutting down the New York University researchers’ accounts this […]

Facebook terminates NYU’s researchers accounts

Facebook suspended on Tuesday New York University research project’s accounts and prevented access to the social networking platform, successfully halting a study involving the platform’s target on political ads. Damian Collins, a British Conservative Party politician, implicated that Facebook is halting research over the Ad Observer tool that could expose the platform’s hidden agenda concerning […]

Twitter spaces upped its game by welcoming co-hosts

Twitter’s take on the Clubhouse-style audio feature is witnessing new upgrades. The micro-blogging site announced that starting this week, Spaces hosts can welcome other users to help them with moderation.  With this new expansion, multiple hosts can now talk at once in Twitter’s Spaces.  Once a user receives an invite to co-host, all the privileges the original host enjoys will be given to the co-hosts. Having the ability to speak, […]

Bill Gates speaks up about his questionable past

In an aired television interview with CNN journalist Anderson Cooper, the Microsoft founder admitted that spending time with the notorious convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as a “huge mistake.”  The interview on Wednesday touched up on several controversial topics, including Gate’s alleged workplace sexual misconducts at Microsoft and the future of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in collaboration with his […]