Month: January 2021
These Teenagers Are Taking On Comcast To Demand Faster Speeds For Remote Learning
Kaitlin Newman for BuzzFeed News From left: Aliyah Abid, Yashira Valenzuela-Morillo, and Kimberly Vasquez on Jan. 25, 2021. As remote learning dragged on through 2020, the coronavirus pandemic pitted Comcast against an unlikely opponent: a group of teenagers. Since last spring, Baltimore-based student activists have been waging a campaign for…
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Google Meet will soon let IT teams disable everyone’s favorite backgrounds feature Google Meet Custom Backgrounds
The rapid transition to working from home during the pandemic was made much easier thanks to Google Meet and other video conferencing software. For its part, Google has continually updated Meet with new features such as breakout rooms, hand raising, polls and more. However, one of the most requested features…
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Daily Crunch: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading
The GameStop stock saga continues, Apple releases more details about its privacy changes and Qualtrics goes public. This is your Daily Crunch for January 28, 2021. The big story: Robinhood restricts GameStop trading Robinhood has responded to an upsurge in retail investors buying shares in companies like GameStop, AMC and…
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SoftBank earmarks $100 million for Miami-based startups
Miami, an emerging startup hub, has a new check-writer in town: SoftBank. The Japanese multinational conglomerate announced plans today to invest $100 million, drawn from across its funds, into Miami-based startups. Notably, SoftBank’s $5 billion Latin America fund is headquartered in Miami, as well. The initiative is led by SoftBank…
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Samsung Galaxy S21 releases today, but Sony Xperia 1 III could beat its cameras Sony Xperia 1 II
A new Sony Xperia 1 III leak shows off more of the phone in alleged renders, and while it doesn’t look too different from its predecessor, they reveal a new feature inherited from the just-announced Sony Xperia Pro and 5G capability. The Xperia Pro is essentially a version of the…
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The somewhat boring reason it appears that Robinhood yanked trading on some securities
After enduring a day’s worth of taking a beating across social media, government, and the various app stores of the mobile world, Robinhood took to its own blog and CEO’s Twitter account to explain why it had halted trading of some stocks earlier today. That Robinhood had restricted trading in a…
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