Bitcoin’s price broke above $50,0000 for the first time on Tuesday as major companies jump into cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin got a boost from large firms such as Tesla and Mastercard to support crypto. Still, skeptics worry that it may be one of the biggest market bubbles in history and still see it as a speculative asset.
Seven West Media joins Google’s News Showcase
Seven West Media signs multimillion-dollar deal as it joins Google’s News Showcase; being the first large Australian media company to sign such an agreement with Google. The deal shows Seven splitting from rivals Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd and News Corp, where the government sets the online giant’s content fees in the lack of a private deal.
Trello redesigns its project management platform for remote work
Trello, a virtual whiteboard-style app for managing projects, announced a major redesign on Tuesday in addition to new features for helping businesses manage third-party integrations. Trello gets a visual overhaul, in its logo and the illustrations it deploys across its apps and websites. It is also getting new multiple ways to view your workload beyond the core whiteboard column view and card customization.
“The goal for Trello going forward is to see how we can expand the card metaphor to different tools and to give you a perspective on all the work that’s happening” stated Trello founder Michael Pryor.
2021 will be the year for electric cars
2021 is going to be a huge year for electric vehicles. Car-buying experts at Edmunds expect US sales to grow to 2.5 percent from 1.9 percent in 2020; thanks to growing interest from consumers. Notably, 2021 will be the first year that all three major vehicle categories will be represented: 12 SUVs, 11 electric sedans and six pickup trucks, when there were only 10 cars and seven SUVs available in 2020.
Tiny Hungarian water-tracker prepares to rove the Moon
The “Puli” lunar rover is going through tests on moon-like terrains for its mission to rove the moon. This is possible if real development goes as planned for Puli Space Technologies Ltd, a space technology company based in Budapest.
Inside Look: Lucid Motors’ new electric vehicle factory in Arizona
CNBC’s first look inside Lucid Motors’ EV factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, where it will build its luxury electric sedan-The Air. VP of Manufacturing Peter Hochholdinger and CEO Peter Rawlinson discuss plans for the factory and show how the cars are built.
Setting up the Samsung Galaxy SmartTag
The Galaxy SmartTag easily pairs up with the smartphone. Adding a SmartTag to your precious belongings helps you keep tabs and locate them easily with your phone.
Twitter a goldmine for tracking consumer mood on price, according to the Bank of Italy
The Bank of Italy said on Monday a set of experimental indicators it created from millions of tweets that accurately tracked consumer mood on prices; being able to offer a scope for a new and efficient monetary policy tool.
Researchers identified their indicators, based on millions of tweets by Italy’s national statistics office and other forecasters provided more granular detail to the experiment.
The effort came as policy-makers around the world have increasingly turned on more to social media and unconventional sources to measure consumer behaviour as inflation continues to defy targets set by plenty of leading central banks.
Twitter has roughly 200 million active users and has turned around 10 million active users in Italy in 2019, according to the authors. The analysis started through collecting 11 million tweets posted in Italian between the June of 2013 and December 2019. The collected tweets contain at least one of a set of previously selected words that are related to prices, inflation and price dynamics.
The remaining dataset was used to build two indexes: expectations of decreasing or increasing inflation done by measuring the daily volume of tweets containing previously selected word combinations such as “very high price” or “bargain price”.And the final set of indicators were then created based on divergence between the two indexes.
The authors stated that their work highlighted the significance and policy implications of information contained on social networks but also acknowledged further study was necessary to interpret the data.
If your Apple Watch won’t charge after the latest update, Apple will repair it for free
Apple said in a support document that “A very small number of customers with Apple Watch Series 5 or Apple Watch SE models running watchOS 7.2 or 7.3 have experienced an issue with their watch not charging after it enters Power Reserve,”.
Apple has released watchOS 7.3.1 on Monday. This update could help fix the issue that prevents some Apple Watch Series SE or 5 smartwatches from charging during the battery-saving Power Reserve Mode. And if it doesn’t work in the recent update for at least 30 minutes, you can contact Apple Support to set up a free mail-in repair, then they will have to inspect your watch to “verify that it is eligible for repair”.
The watch OS 7.3.1 update is available now for download.
HoloLens allows remote collaboration among surgeons
HoloLens 2 uses Dynamic 365 remote assist to reimagine healthcare, helping doctors collaborate remotely. Surgeons will be able to receive quick responses and help when needed. A Microsoft event helps show this experience from physicians from 13 countries who performed successful surgeries including roundtable discussions.












