Month: July 2020
Facebook brings live broadcasts to Messenger Rooms to take on Zoom Messenger Rooms
Facebook has added a new feature to its Messenger Rooms video conferencing tool that will allow users to broadcast their meetings to others on the social media platform. By turning a room into a Facebook Live broadcast, up to 50 people can share their meeting online to easily livestream a…
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Beloved Nintendo president Satoru Iwata’s tribute book is finally coming out in English
A tribute book for Satoru Iwata, the beloved president and CEO of Nintendo who died in 2015, is getting an English release this spring, publisher VIZ Media announced today. The book, Ask Iwata, is a translation of Iwata-San, which was first published in Japan last year. “In this motivational collection,…
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The NBA will use Microsoft Teams to virtually seat fans courtside
When the National Basketball Association (NBA) restarts its season on July 30th, it will use Microsoft Teams to recreate the atmosphere of a packed arena without any fans physically present. As part of its ongoing partnership with Microsoft, the leag… Source
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How it feels to survive Silicon Valley and a pandemic
It shouldn’t feel like it took a pandemic to get Twitter to boot 7,000 QAnon accounts (and crack down on 150,000 more related to the violent conspiracy group), but it does. At least Twitter is doing harm mitigation around its role in this interconnec… Source
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Beebo is basically a modular synth in guitar pedal form
When I reviewed the ZOIA, I said there was nothing else quite like it on the market. And that’s still largely true, but the Beebo from Poly Effects is at least a close relative. It’s, in theory, a “multi modulation pedal” for your guitar. But, in rea… Source
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How the world’s biggest general science society is tackling racism
The world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society has decided to take on systemic racism. The move by The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of the esteemed Science journals, comes after Black scientists came forward to protest racism within academia and the sciences, and organized a strike on…
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