Month: April 2021
Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent
Social audio app Clubhouse will let all users pay other creators starting Monday. It’s the first monetization tool built right into the app. Clubhouse says it won’t take a cut of payments, meaning that creators get the entirety of what somebody sends them. Not everyone will be able to receive…
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Clubhouse launches payments so creators can make money
Clubhouse, a one-year-old social audio app reportedly valued at $1 billion, will now allow users to send money to their favorite creators — or speakers — on the platform. In a blog post, the startup announced the new monetization feature, Clubhouse Payments, as the “the first of many features that…
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Daily Crunch: The Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle suit
The Supreme Court announces several tech-related rulings, LG will shut down its smartphone business and we take a deep dive into the story of StockX. This is your Daily Crunch for April 5, 2021. The big story: The Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle suit The U.S. Supreme Court…
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LG’s exit from the smartphone market comes as no surprise
For those who follow the space, LG will be remembered fondly as a smartphone trailblazer. For a decade-and-a-half, the company was a major player in the Android category and a driving force behind a number of innovations that have since become standard. Perhaps the most notable story is that of…
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RTX 3080, RTX 3090, Ryzen 9 5950X, and lots more available now on Newegg Shuffle rtx 3080
There’s a new Newegg Shuffle running on April 5 from 4:30pm to 6:30pm EST, and it’s loaded with some hard-to-find hardware, including the Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3080, RTX 3090, Radeon RX 6700 XT, RX 6800, and even a pair of desktop processors, the new Intel Core…
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Tim Cook drops hints about autonomous tech and the Apple car
Apple CEO Tim Cook dropped a few hints in an interview released Monday about the direction of the much-anticipated Apple car, including that autonomous vehicle technology will likely be a key feature. “The autonomy itself is a core technology, in my view,” Cook told Kara Swisher in an interview on…
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