by Beth Holmes | Aug 11, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Rebranding Twitter as X is never going to catch on, despite Elon Musk’s recent and half-hearted efforts. Elon Musk has some kind of obsession with the letter X. He owns SpaceX, and there’s a Tesla Model X. He even named his son X Æ A-12 (pronounced either...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 26, 2023 | News, Social Media, Technology
Chinese livestreamers are using TikTok as a sales platform, targeting American consumers for goods from cosmetics to alternative medicines. TikTok faces possible bans in the United States and Europe over privacy concerns, but that hasn’t slowed down the...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 10, 2023 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Threads is a new rival to Twitter, about to be debuted by Facebook’s parent company Meta. The new listing for the Threads app, which appeared recently on Apple’s App Store, bills it as a “text-based conversation app” linked to Instagram. “Threads is where...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 29, 2023 | News, Technology
Batteries in smartphones are the subject of a new EU law: smartphones must have user-replaceable batteries by 2027. Last week, the European Parliament approved new rules covering many forms of rechargeable batteries. For “portable batteries,” which includes the...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 19, 2023 | Companies, News, Technology
Robot waiters are here, but do they have any future in our restaurants? Are they going to replace wait staff? So far, robot waiters are a novelty. They aren’t common, but if you live in a decent-sized city, you can probably find a restaurant that has at least...
by Beth Holmes | May 29, 2023 | Companies, News, Technology
Avid Telecom has made billions of illegal robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry, according to multiple attorneys general. The Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force is a bipartisan cooperative of 51 attorneys general. One from each U.S....
