Youtube’s permanent Spaces locations ,which were built to offer networking opportunities for creators, will not reopen after the pandemic the company has confirmed.
The Spaces that won’t be reopening are in Los Angeles, London,Berlin, Paris,Rio, New York and Tokyo.Even if it was the pandemic that pushed the company towards a virtual model, the shift away from Permanent Spaces has been underway for a couple of years.
Youtube said it is shifting to a hybrid model that will combine virtual events with pop-up locations.
Youtube’s mix of virtual events and pop-up locations have already reached tens of thousands of creators.According to the company, It said that last year it ran over a thousand virtual events attended by over 70,0000 people across 145 countries.
Meanwhile, since 2016, its 45 pop-up events reached over 15,000 creators across 20 cities.
Youtube will not reopen remaining creator Spaces
How to stop your emails from being tracked
All those marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just selling a product but they’re also tracking if you’ve opened your email and where you were at the time by using a software similar to Mailchimp to embed tracking software into the message.
How exactly does it work? A single tracking pixel is embedded into the email, usually hidden within a link or an image and when the email is opened. Then the code within the pixel sends the info back to the company’s server.
A simple basic step you can take to avoid trackers is to stop your email from automatically loading images since the images are where the majority of these pixels are. You won’t be able to avoid all the trackers in your email, but this will stop the majority of them. Here’s how to do it:
DISABLE IMAGE AUTOLOADING IN GMAIL:
- Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner to access your settings, and click on “See all settings.”
- In the “General” tab (the first one), scroll down to “Images.”
- Select “Ask before displaying external images.”
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on “Save Changes.”
Another option is using an email client such as Thunderbird, which blocks remote images by default. This application allows you pictures from contacts that you trust not to send hidden code in their images and lets you download embedded content on an individual basis.
Bitcoin hits fresh high
The world’s most popular cryptocurrency continued to gain on Sunday.
Bitcoin rises to a fresh high and extending a two-month rally that took its market capitalisation to more than $1 trillion on Friday.
Bitcoin rose to a record $58,354, taking its weekly gain to around 20% and it has surged around 100% this year.
At this point, bitcoin was up more than 90% in 2021, having opened the year at roughly $28,900, CoinDesk figures show.
Bitcoin’s gains have been fueled by its gaining acceptance among mainstream companies and investors such as Mastercard Inc, Tesla and BNY Mellon.
Moscow eyes fully electric bus fleet by 2030
Moscow plans to nearly quadruple the number of its operating electric buses in coming years.
This is to replace all diesel or petrol-powered public transport vehicles with greener alternatives by 2030, a senior city transport official said.
Mosgortrans, which runs Moscow’s vast tram and bus network, said its fleet of around 600 electric buses would be expanded by 400 vehicles by the end of 2020, by another 420 the following year and then 855, the fleet amounting to 2,000 e-buses.
“Every year the plan will be to replace all wheeled public transport vehicles with electric buses,” said deputy head of the innovative projects department at Mosgortrans Artyom Burlakov.
The Vaio Z is the world’s lightest laptop with an Intel H-series chip
Vaio is known for making laptops that have a surprising amount of power into astounding form factors and the Vaio Z may be the company’s most ambitious product so far.It has Intel’s four-core Core i7-11357H0 and a starting weight og 2.11 pounds. The product will be the lightest laptop to house an Intel h-series processor.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover: After the landing
Perseverance, landed on Mars on Thursday, will search for signs of ancient microbial life, collect carefully selected rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) samples for future return to Earth, characterise Mars’ geology and climate, and pave the way for human exploration beyond the Moon.
Adobe: Learn to Design a Booklet
Designer Kieron Lewis shows how he designs a booklet for the architectural practice. Learn how landscaping can support London’s local bat population as you learn techniques to make an editorial booklet.
Ethereum hits record high, lifted by growing institutional interest
Cryptocurrency Ethereum hit a record high on Thursday, lifted by growing institutional interest in the space, and more than a week after its futures were launched on the Chicago Mercantile exchange.
The second largest cryptocurrency , in terms of market capitalisation, reached an all-time peak of $1,938 and was last up 4.6% at $1,936.94.
Increase in institutional participation in cryptocurrencies also propelled Ethereum’s rival and the largest crypto asset Bitcoin to an all-time peak of $53,640 on Wednesday.
“Ethereum is really undervalued, and I believe it has been … due to its more complex narrative,” said co-founder of Aragon Luis Cuende, a decentralised application on the ethereum blockchain.
Nyan Cat is being sold as a unique piece of crypto art
As Nyan Cat turns 10 this year, a one-of-a kind edition of the beloved GIF goes up for auction. The artist behind the iconic cat Chris Torres has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. The auction starts at 1pm ET and will run for 24 hours.
Crypto art is starting to get popular over the recent years. There are now a number of digital marketplaces such as SuperRare and Nifty Gateway- where collectors can purchase and sell digital artworks.
Crypto artworks are generally sold through “non-fungible tokens” that are unique digital tokens on a blockchain and verify ownership of a piece. That means there is an element of speculation and investment when buying crypto art since you can resell a work for profit in the future.
Android 12 developer preview is available now
Google released a developer preview for the next version of Android-Android 12 for Pixel devices on Thursday. As a norm for Google, the very initial previews of Android are full of a lot of developer-facing changes. Android 12 has updates that show how the OS handles videos, images and future security updates.
Another norm for Google is to hold some of the key UI changes in reserve for the Google I/O conference, which is typically held in May. However, this particular developer preview does include some changes to the UI for notifications.
There will be a public beta soon , but it would take a few more months. And if Google follows its habits, there will be a more comprehensive preview at what’s coming for Android in the coming months.
