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When asked about whether TikTok's recent moves could assuage US regulatory concerns, he told Reuters: "As long as TikTok or any other application operates in a way that gives the Chinese government and Communist Party leverage, it is impossible to separate the dangers of using such an application from the reality that users information could be at risk." … [Read more...] about TikTok owner ByteDance moves to shift power out of China

However, it is important to take a look at the basics of any altcoin including its maximum supply and circulation. For example,Bitcoin maximum supply is 21 million exactly and 18 million are in circulation. Bitcoin is one of the most valued, trusted and most accepted cryptocurrencies across the globe. … [Read more...] about Here’s how can you save yourself from Bitcoin Crypto scams

Two years ago, Uber acquired the bike-sharing startup Jump for a reported $200 million. Three weeks ago, it offloaded the business to Lime, another micromobility company, as part of a deal that also involved laying off most of Jump’s staff. Some of Jump’s electric bikes went to Lime—but nearly 20,000 others are now being unceremoniously scrapped. … [Read more...] about Uber just destroyed thousands of electric bikes

To take just one example, if you use an Apple laptop, you probably noticed when the scrolling direction of the trackpad changed from moving a page down when you scrolled up, to “natural”—meaning that when you swipe down, the page moves down. The former works like a spyglass would: As you move the spyglass down a page, the bit you’re reading moves up into view. But natural scrolling is different. It’s as if you’ve got the page in your hand, instead of a spyglass. It’s as if you’re pushing a page upward as you read. The first metaphor made sense in the era of desktops, when windows functioned like spyglasses onto the content of a page. The later metaphor makes sense only with touch screens, and the idea that the thing you previously thought was a screen had in fact become something like paper. Point being, our metaphors for how technology change as we assimilate old technologies, and adapt to new ones. … [Read more...] about The Secret UX Issues That Will Make (Or Break) Self-Driving Cars

San Francisco design firm NewDealDesign–known for commercial projects like the Fitbit and unabashed provocations like Scrip–has a different view of the future. In a concept it calls Autonomics, the studio considers how autonomous, electric vehicles might change suburban and even rural life. It paints a picture of tiny delivery bots that pull up to your car in motion to deliver food, bus-sized vehicles that you can dock with to party or shop from the road, and dozens or even hundreds of vehicles could assemble into cities on wheels. … [Read more...] about These Self-Driving Cars Assemble Into Moving Towns