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The NTWRK, the Live Nation-backed shopping app for Gen Z, is launching a virtual festival
SXSW may be cancelled, but the commodification and commingling of multinational corporations and youth and street culture is assured to be alive and well in the COVID-19 era thanks to events like TRANSFER, the new virtual festival from NTWRK — GenZ’s answer to the Home Shopping Network. The FootLocker, Live…
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Instagram makes it easier to see when you’re broadcasting music you can’t use
Instagram has posted its guidelines for using copyrighted music during live videos, Stories, and other posts on the platform, and part of the announcement includes a new update to the notification that pops up to tell users they’re using unlicensed art in ways that violate its rules. The changes to…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition dresses up its flagship for the army
Samsung has announced yet another version of the Galaxy S20: the Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition, which promises a “mission-ready military smartphone.” It’s designed for a slightly different customer-base than the already-released S20, S20 Plus, S20 Ultra, or even the Verizon-only mmWave S20. Despite the grand military branding and aspirations, the…
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Sphero spins off a new company to make robots for police, military use
Sphero, the company behind robotic toys like the BB-8 robot and educational robotics kits, announced today that it’s spinning its public safety division into a new company, dubbed Company Six. It plans to commercialize robots and AI software for firs… Source
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Scribd announces a perks program, giving its subscribers access to Pandora Plus, TuneIn Premium and more
E-book and audiobook subscrition service Scribd has been actively embracing and experimenting with bundling over the past couple years, creating joint offers with The New York Times and with Spotify and Hulu. Today it announced a slightly different take on the idea with Scribd Perks. These perks gives Scribd’s paying subscribers…
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New Microsoft Teams update will be a godsend for developers
Microsoft Teams has seen extensive growth during the pandemic and the video conferencing tool has now surpassed 75m daily active users which is why Microsoft wants to make it easier for business developers to create apps for the service. At its virtual Build 2020 developers conference, the software giant announced…
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