It was teased back in March, but today YouTube made it official: the platform will be removing the dislike counter. This means you’ll no longer be able to look at a video and think, gee, this isn’t a very popular video, I’m sure it’s just bad and not a…
Clubhouse rolls out Replay to let users record live rooms and share them later
Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS and Android apps that will let creators record an audio room so that anyone who misses the action live can check it out later. The company first announced that the […]
Watr launches ESG-oriented blockchain for commodities, partners with Algorand
With COP26 negotiations in full throw this week, the climate is probably the highest up the global agenda it’s ever been. And as the world slowly emerges from the global pandemic, more people are talking about re-writing the rules of trade, not just to unblock the clear inefficiencies made manifest by the Evergreen Suez-blocking debacle, […]
Square Enix Sounds Keen On NFTs And Blockchain Games
Earlier this year, Kotaku reported that Square Enix was getting into NFTs. At that time, the Tokyo-based game maker was dipping its toe in the non-fungible waters. Now, it looks like Square Enix is ready to take the plunge.Read more…
Tesla shares fall after Elon Musk’s Twitter poll backs sell-off plan
Majority of billionaire’s 62.5 million followers vote that he should sell 10% of his stock in electric car firmTesla’s Frankfurt-listed shares fell about 9% in early trading on Monday as investors prepared for the chief executive Elon Musk’s proposed s…
The big idea: Should we leave the classroom behind?
The pandemic has driven a great leap forward in digital learning. Is there any point in looking back?My 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned in passing that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. Struck…
New antitrust suit from Phhhoto alleges Facebook copied and killed the competition
A former upstart Instagram rival is suing Meta, formerly known as Facebook, over allegations that the company violated antitrust laws by cloning a competing product and ultimately killing its business. The app, Phhhoto, launched in 2014, inviting users to create and share short GIF-like videos. If that sounds familiar, that’s because the same functionality was […]
Nigeria’s eNaira Digital Currency Had an Embarrassing First Week
The eNaira is supposed to live within a mobile wallet, have the same value and be interchangeable with the physical naira for everyday transactions. Nigerians believe the eNaira, which is governed by a centralized blockchain, is part of the central ban…
I got a camera to spy on my cat – and it made me question everything about myself
We document everything obsessively. And implicit in this compulsion is the suspicion that our lives are best understood at a distance – but what do we lose?This summer I bought two in-home security cameras. I told people I got them because my cat was s…