Bitcoin rose 8% to $48,861 on Monday.
Bitcoin is the world’s largest and best-known cryptocurrency.It has risen 76.2% from the year’s low of $27,734 on January 4.
Bitcoin’s price soared in 2021 as major firms such as BNY Mellon, asset manager BlackRock Inc, credit card giant Mastercard Inc, backed cryptocurrencies, while those such as Tesla Inc Square Inc and MicroStrategy Inc invested in bitcoin.
Google is adding a set of new features to Google Workspace, including new tools for categorizing your focus time in Google Chat and Calendar, a version of its office suite for frontline workers and better ways to join Google Meet video conferences with multiple devices.
Google is categorizing these features as part of a new push for what it calls “collaboration equity”; which company means as a high-minded way of explaining the tools it’s trying to create so people working from home are not put at a disadvantage compared to people working from the office.
In addition to setting up out-of-office and working hours, users will be able to create a new event type called Focus Time. When setting up a Focus Time, Google says it will limit “notifications during these event windows”. You can also set your location, letting coworkers know your availability and timezone.
Finally, Google says it’s launching “Google Workspace Frontline,” which it calls a “custom solution” for frontline workers. It seems to be a simplified way for administrators to configure a Google Workspace setup for workers in retail or in the field. It will also make it possible to create AppSheet apps (simple, form-based apps) within Google Sheets.
Twitter announced Monday that it will begin labeling tweets that share misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines.
The labels will include links to relevant information from official bodies like the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, Twitter plans to enforce a five-strike system for repeat offenders that can lead to locked accounts and permanent suspension.
The new labels appear as text underneath misleading tweets, with links to information from Twitter rules or official sources. Twitter says it applies these labels through combining automated and human review systems and its beginning its rollout with English-language content.
Twitter has very specific criteria for labelling its COVID-19 misleading information policy, but in general, the company targets five categories of misleading information:
Instagram is launching its Live Rooms.
The feature allows four people to video chat during a live broadcast, compared to the previous limit of two people. Instagram’s blog post says it hopes the feature encourages people to start a “show or a podcast”, “host a jam session” or collaborate with other creators.
Going live with more people means the rooms could attract larger audiences. The followers of everyone participating will see the live room and, depending on their notifications, be pinged about it. (Anyone blocked by the active participants won’t be able to join the live, though.)
This could be compared to Clubhouse; which is a social audio app that lets people go live in rooms. More than 10 people can speak simultaneously, and rooms can reach up to 8,000 people before they’re full. But unlike Clubhouse, Instagram Live requires people to be on-camera, which comes with the pressure of looking good. Still, Live Rooms will likely perform well on the platform.
Russian launched its Arktika-M satellite on Sunday on a mission to monitor the environment and climate in the Arctic amid a push to expand the country’s activities in the region.
The Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average over the last thirty years and Moscow seeks to develop the energy-rich region, investing in the Northern Sea Route for shipping across its long northern flank ice melts.
Arktika-M successfully reached its intended orbit after being launched from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome by a Soyuz rocket, Dmitry Rogozin , head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, said in a tweet.
Russia is planning to send up a second satellite in 2023 and, combined, the two will offer round-the-clock, all-weather monitoring of the Arctic Ocean and the surface of the Earth, Roscosmos said.
Gatorade releases its new fitness wearable that tests your sweat to let you now when and how to best hydrate after working out.
The Gx Sweat Patch is now being sold in packages of two for $25. It pairs with the Gatorade Gx app to let you efficiently hydrate and hopefully avoid cramps and recover faster.
The sweat patch is applied to your left inner arm before a workout and collects the bit of sweat as you move, funneling the fluid through a colour changing channel on the patch.
Once, you’re done exercising, you use the Gx App to scan the patch. Gatorade says it’s able to offer insights on how much body fluid was released and the amount of sodium needed to be replenished to recover efficiently.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that her government was backing a new project that uses drone technology to understand and protect the endangered Maui dolphins in the country.
Watch astronauts work in the vacuum of space. NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover exit the orbital lab’s Quest airlock at about 6 a.m.. They were assembling and installing modification kits required for upcoming solar array upgrades.
Samsung releases the Galaxy Chromebook 2 with a boasting QLED display, SmartAmp sound and lightning fast Wi-Fi 6.
Scientists are getting major assistance on learning the sea floor from the most unexpected characters- fin whales.
The fin whale’s song is one of the loudest sounds made by animals, and audible over vast ocean distances.Their soundwaves also penetrate the Earth and scientists are working out how to use this to explore the thickness of ocean sediment.
Fin whales are lesser known than the humpbacks and blue whales. But these incredible creatures have an astonishing turn of speed. Like other great whales, the males sing complex melodies to attract mates, at frequencies too low for humans to hear.
Using these songs recorded at three stations, scientists compared the soundwaves that traveled to the stations and those that penetrated the seafloor to become seismic waves. The seismic waves bounced on boundaries between basalt, sediments and lower crust, before reaching the stations. The delay in waves’ arrival reveals the thickness of each layer.
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