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YouTube paid $30B to creators, artists in last 3 years: CEO Susan Wojcicki
According to an Oxford Economics report, YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed approximately $16 billion to the US GDP in 2019, supporting the equivalent of 345,000 full-time jobs.
Apple launches limited edition 'Black Unity Collection' Watch
Available from February 1, the new hardware is part of what the company is calling the Black Unity Collection, a group of products designed to "celebrate and acknowledge Black history and Black culture." Apple says the limited-edition Watch will be available in "over 38 countries and regions."
Microsoft surpasses $5B in gaming revenue for 1st time: Nadella
This is good news as "we expand our opportunity to reach the world's three billion gamers wherever they play. The launch of Xbox series X and series S was the most successful in our history with the most devices ever sold in a launch month," Nadella said after the company declared a healthy results for the December quarter.
Alexa can now act on hunches to turn off lights, more
If the new proactive hunches are enabled, though, Alexa will skip asking for permission for a task and just do it. Alexa has been able to sense these habits and ask about them since 2018 -- the company calls them acehunches" -- but before this update, Alexa would ask permission before acting on something.
China to build 30 'fully connected' 5G factories by 2023
Three to five industrial Internet platforms with international influence will become operational and a big data center for industrial Internet will be established by 2023, said an action plan on industrial Internet development that was unveiled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
India permanently bans TikTok, 58 other Chinese apps: Report
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued new notices to these apps last week informing that the temporary block imposed on them has now been made permanent as their answers and clarifications following the ban were found to be inadequate.
Covid-19 warnings on Twitter spread well before pandemic outbreak
The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, identified tracks of increasing concern about pneumonia cases on posts published on Twitter in seven countries, between the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020. The analysis of the posts shows that the "whistleblowing" came precisely from the geographical regions where the primary outbreaks later developed.
Tesla has better software, hardware than Waymo: Elon Musk
Recently, Waymo CEO John Krafcik, in an interview with Manager Magazine, said Tesla has taken a misguided approach to developing fully autonomous cars and its "full self-driving" system will fail to live up to its billing.
iPhone 13 may come with smaller notch, better cameras
According to the sources, the next-generation iPhones' Face ID system will see some design changes with the size of the notch at the top of the screen to shrink and their ultrawide angle lens upgraded from 5P to 6P, reports DigiTimes. The new design will integrate Rx, Tx and flood illuminator into the same camera module, similar to that of a LiDAR scanner in the back camera module, to enable smaller notch sizes.
Twitter launches new emoji to celebrate Republic Day
The unique emoji design depicts the Indian Air Force (IAF) fly past in the Indian tri-colours. The flypast soars the skies as part of the Republic Day celebrations each year. President Ramnath Kovind will tweet with the emoji, calling upon Indians in the country and across the world to revel in the celebrations and sentiments of national pride and unity.
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