🌞 Small businesses shine on the App Store

According to a recent study, small developers on the App Store have seen significant growth in revenue over the past two years.

Here are the rest of the study results →

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👁‍🗨 YouTube ads

YouTube tests blocking → ad blockers, requiring users to turn them off to view videos.

The move comes as a surprise to many, given that YouTube has not addressed ad-blockers in years.

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📺 Video over an hour long in 480p format can now be posted on Twitter  →

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⚡️ Elon Musk appoints Linda Yaccarino as Twitter new CEO / Twitter →

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✈️ Emirates goes digital

Emirates Airlines announced that starting May 15, nearly all its passengers will have to use mobile boarding passes → instead of physical ones.

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🏎 Elon Musk is still too young for Formula 1

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has spoken about details of his garage meeting with one of the world’s richest people, Elon Musk, at the Miami Grand Prix last weekend.

“Well, it was great to see him coming to a Formula 1 race and embracing the combustion engine again,” Horner quipped while in conversation with the Financial Times →.

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🎉 Twitter 2.0

These are first impressions shared by Twitter's newly appointed CEO →

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💸 The latest bet from the key Apple contract partner

The increasing interest from Apple's manufacturing partners links with the company's efforts to expand its manufacturing infrastructure outside of China.

Foxconn's investment will create 25,000 direct jobs at the "first stage", Telangana's IT minister has announced in a tweet →

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✨ The leader of the "high tech" trend in architecture

Here is our summary of the Wallpaper’s article → Ultimate Norman Foster: into the mind of the architect at Centre Pompidou.

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👾 More spyware in MENA

The leaders among the countries that have reported an increase in spyware attacks are Qatar (23.8%) and Egypt (22.7%).

The rest are UAE (10.1%), Kuwait (7.8%) and Saudi Arabia (4.5%).

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🥺 New Dyson hair straightener

Dyson Airstrait is a revolutionary hair straightener that uses air instead of hot plates to straighten hair from wet to dry, making it less damaging to hair. With a price of $499, the hair tool promises to transform the way we straighten our hair →

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✅ 'xrOS' trade and word mark 

Apple registers 'xrOS' wordmark ahead of AR/VR headset launch →

The registration suggests that "xrOS" will be the name of the operating system used by the headset and other AR/VR devices.

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👾 Vulnerability in Telegram //

A Google engineer has discovered an issue in the Telegram app for macOS → that could potentially give an attacker access to the computer's camera and microphone.

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🥹 A genuinely rewarding man-machine experience

If you haven't seen this really fancy dictaphone yet, just take a look →  you'll definitely want to get one, even if you don't use a recorder.

The TP-7 digital tape recorder is designed to record audio with excellent quality. It combines a nostalgic design with modern features.

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💡 New accessibility features

Apple unveils a set of new software features → aimed at helping users with cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities.

For example, the Point and Speak feature in the Magnifier demonstrated in the video makes it easier for users with vision disabilities to interact with physical objects that have several text labels.

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🧠 Soft-Robot Brain Implant

Created by a team from Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a cutting-edge soft robot brain implant → has been developed to treat epilepsy.

This innovative device, utilizing an eversion mechanism, is inserted between the skull and the brain's surface, providing a promising solution for patients.

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