Month: August 2021
Luminate aims to make hair loss from chemotherapy a thing of the past
Hair loss resulting from chemotherapy is one of the most recognizable side effects in all of medicine, and for many is an unwanted public announcement of their condition and treatment. Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing…
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You’ll have to tell Instagram your birthday to keep using the app
If you haven’t given Instagram your birthday, it’s about to start asking for it a whole lot more — and it’ll eventually be required for you to use the app. Instagram started requiring that new users add their birthdates in 2019, but if you had an older account, it was…
Read MoreTikTok parent company just bought a VR headset producer – will virtual reality finally go viral? The Pico VR Neo 2 VR headset
ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, has just closed a deal to acquire Pico, one of HTC and Oculus’ main rivals, and makers of the Pico Goblin 2 and Pico Neo 2 headsets. The financial details around the deal have yet to be disclosed, but according to CNBC ByteDance says…
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Invest at PayPal could compete with Robinhood and Square’s retail stock trading
The next platform to host a rush on stocks like GameStop and AMC could be PayPal, as CNBC reports the company hired a brokerage industry vet to lead the effort. CNBC points out that Rich Hagen served as Ally Invest president after that company acquired a startup he co-founded called…
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Instagram will require users to share their birthday in push for teen safety
Instagram will require users to share their birthday, an update the company says is meant to protect young people using its app. The photo app already asks new users to provide a birthday when they sign up, a requirement that’s been in place since the end of 2019. But people…
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DrLupo is the latest streamer to move from Twitch to YouTube Gaming
Streamer Ben “DrLupo” Lupo has signed a deal to stream exclusively on YouTube Gaming, following in the footsteps of other well-known streamers like Jack “CouRage” Dunlop and Rachell “Valkyrae” Hofstetter in moving from Twitch to YouTube. Lupo’s first YouTube Gaming stream will take place on August 31st. Lupo already has…
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