Month: May 2022
Anonymous bulletin board app Yik Yak is revealing its users’ exact locations
Yik Yak, an app that acts as a local anonymous message board, makes it possible to find users’ precise locations and unique IDs, Motherboard reports. A researcher who analyzed Yik Yak data was able to access precise GPS coordinates of where posts and comments came from, accurate within 10 to…
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Chrome OS is getting Apple’s best video editor and more later this year
Audio player loading… With all the excitement around the Google IO 2022 keynote, you’d be forgiven if you missed IO’s second-day events, which included a “What’s new in Chrome OS” keynote where it showed off the system’s upcoming features. Under the theme of “Better Together”, many of the upcoming features…
Read MoreA cheaper Apple TV could be happening
An Apple TV that actually competes with Roku and Amazon could be on the market by the end of the year. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in a tweet, Apple would launch a new Apple TV “that improves cost structure” in the second half of 2022. It’s about damn time.…
Read MoreVergecast: Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Google I/O 2022
Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel and editor-at-large David Pierce discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories. On Wednesday, we saw Google announce a whole bunch of products and features from their keynote…
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Zoom is driving further into the customer service market
Audio player loading… In its latest move into the customer service market, Zoom has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the AI and automation platform for customer support Solvvy. Once the acquisition closes, the two companies will provide elevated customer service experiences to enterprise businesses…
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Major exchanges delist Terra stablecoin as price collapse continues
As the Terra crisis draws on, some of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world have begun to delist Terra’s UST stablecoin and its linked Luna token, citing a need to protect users from risk. Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, halted the trading of Luna and Terra…
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