Have you heard that some forward-thinking futurists are already dubbing the 2020’s as “The Decade of the Home?” Look, we think that might be jumping the gun a bit, but we’ll concede it’s definitely not an impossible potential future for the next 10 years or so. If the next decade is defined by people staying and working from their homes, then all the more reason to make sure your marketing strategies are optimized for reaching people where they live....

The concept is simple: we rent out a bowling alley, digital companies in Amsterdam form an eight-person team, and bowl against each other. We get really, really drunk and become best friends by the end of the night. Now, somewhere along the line, we decided to stop hosting Bowlr. This was before my time, so don’t ask me why — but after six years of sitting in the TNW events graveyard, we brought it back!...

For shoppers looking into high quality headphones, a few brand names immediately cross the radar. Bose. Sony. Sennhauser. The next moment is when the sticker shock starts setting in. That’s when a shopper has to ask themselves, “Am I really going to pay $400 for a pair of headphones?” Truth is, many savvy manufacturers are producing audio experiences on par with those elite brands — at prices way more down to earth....

If just over a quarter of privately owned cars and a slightly larger share of commercial vehicles were electric, researchers say in the study, the cuts in air pollution could avoid almost 17,500 deaths. What’s more, “air quality and health benefits from vehicle electrification outweigh climate benefits,” says K. Max Zhang of Cornell University and a co-author on the paper. An earlier study by other researchers has shown similar health benefits of EVs in the U....

“My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder,” Musk wrote in a letter sent to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor on April 13. “Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2022 Musk’s bid arrived days after Twitter said he’d rejected an offer to join the company’s board, which was made after the tycoon bought a 9....

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To make matters worse, Ethereum’s market is on the verge of a “death cross.” This is a spooky technical pattern that’s only happened three times before in its history, reports digital asset research firm Delphi Digital in commentary shared with Hard Fork. “Death crosses” occur when an asset’s moving price average over the past 50 days dips (or ‘crosses’) below the moving price average over the past 200 days. These are highlighted on the chart below by red circles....

But could this upgrade, a vital step towards a much greener and faster version of the current system, put ethereum on the path to becoming the dominant platform on the internet and make ether number one? First of all, it’s important to understand the difference between bitcoin and ethereum. Bitcoin is a system for allowing people to send value between one another without the need for banks. It is built on a technology known as blockchains, which are online ledgers whose transactions are checked and recorded by a decentralized network of computers known as validators....

In fact, TRON dapps attracted more active users than any other network over the past three months, reports Dapp.com with new research. “484 new dapps were added to the market this quarter, and Ethereum is still the first choice for developers, followed by TRON and EOS,” said Dapp.com. “Newly launched blockchains like TomoChain and IOST are quickly expanding, but the first tier blockchains have already gone way ahead.” Dapp.com also announced a new record for active users in a single quarter had been set (1,159,482), as well as all-time highs for transactions and transactional volume....

Following a recent fatal crash in Texas, two engineers from Consumer Reports, an American non-profit consumer organization, showed how easy it is to deceive Autopilot’s driver monitoring system. Jake Fisher, CR’s senior director of auto testing, sat in the driver’s seat and Kelly Funkhouser, CR’s program manager for vehicle interface testing, sat in the rear seat. They tested their 2020 Tesla Model Y on their half mile closed test track....

In a blog post today, the company announced it would begin to “reduce the distribution of political content in News Feed for a small percentage of people in Canada, Brazil, and Indonesia this week,” with the US to follow “in the coming weeks.” The company says it’s using these first tests to figure out the best way to rank political content, surveying users on their experience. It also clarified that authoritative COVID-19 information and content from official government agencies will be exempt from the changes....

Sinterklaas is depicted as a bearded, white gentleman (a thinner Santa, basically) while the Black Petes, his ‘helpers,’ appear as blackface characters with large gold earrings and exaggerated lips. The question of whether or not Zwarte Piet is racist and should be banned completely is among the most heated and polarizing Dutch debates of the past decade. Images of Black Pete (or blackface) can be reported to Facebook and Instagram and will be removed, if they show:...

Starting this weekend, users will be able to watch videos from some of their favorite artists across genres. For that, the company has patterned with some major record labels including Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, BMG, Kobalt, as well as many across the independent music community, and publishers. Facebook had already tested out official music videos in India and Thailand through partnerships with local labels. Those partnerships also helped the platform with music for certain Facebook and Instagram features....

The new app syncs calls across devices, boasts unlimited free video and group calls, and supports GIFs and notifications. It also comes in Dark Mode if you’re a charcoal palette junkie like myself. According to Stan Chudnovsky, Messenger VP, the company’s seen “more than a 100% increase in people using their desktop browser for audio and video calling on Messenger.” Given the situation the world is in at the moment, I don’t doubt that’s because video chatting is the only way to see friends and relatives stuck in quarantine....

A recent study from researchers at the University of Maryland, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins shows that Facebook blocked pro-vaccination ads on the basis that they were too political, while simultaneously allowing hundreds of advertisements from anti-vaccination groups to display for millions of users. Many of these ads were targeted towards women over 25 (the most likely demographic to be pregnant or the parent of a young child) in areas stricken by recent measles outbreaks....

The company thinks it’s an “effective way to slow the spread of viral misinformation and harmful content.” And it’s not entirely wrong. Often misinformation is spread through people sending messages without really checking information. After the company rolled out limits on forwarding viral messages in WhatsApp, it observed a 70% drop in these kinds of messages. In a statement, the company said the new limit will help control misinformation: Messenger has more than 1....

The video was then shared on the president’s Facebook page. The social network decided this violated its content guidelines on misinformation and removed the post, as reported by NBC News. It’s one of the rare times the social network has acted on one of the president’s posts. A Facebook spokesperson told NBC: The Trump campaign responded, accusing Facebook of bias: Whether Facebook was justified hinges on how loosely you interpret “almost immune....

Fret no more, for you can now officially be dubbed an ‘expert’ on Facebook Groups. Starting today, Facebook is launching a way for Group admins to assign certain individuals an expert badge. Once they accept the invitation, the badge will show up next to the expert’s name in a group, adding gravitas to their comments, and helping them stand out from the plebes. In all seriousness, I can see this being very useful in some niche communities or science-oriented groups....

I’ve only spent a few hours with the sequel to the legendary strategy game that set the bar for historical accuracy and detail, but I can already tell you: our patience has been rewarded. Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2 (we’ll just call it East 2 going forward) comes more than a decade after the launch of the original. That might seem like an inflated development period, but we’re talking about one of the most in-depth strategy games ever made....

The fine is the latest attempt to make Google pay news organizations for displaying their content in search results. In 2020, France’s Competition Authority ordered the company to negotiate an agreement on remuneration for showing snippets of articles on Google News. Publishers alleged that the firm had failed to open the talks in “good faith,” Reuters reports. The regulator took their side. It accused Google of violating the 2020 order....