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Cyber Monday Biggest Online Shopping Day In US History; Cyber Week Biggest In Global History
Cyber Monday 2020 was the biggest digital shopping day in U.S. history, says Adobe. Americans spent $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday, up 15.1% from last...
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Mobile ad monetization: 25 questions answered
Just a few weeks ago Singular assembled a dream team of mobile experts to talk about mobile ad monetization. We spent an hour dredging their brains...
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Apple Watch StrapGate Is Not Over. You Still Need To Return Your Entire Watch In Some Cases
“StrapGate” isn’t over. Apple still isn’t letting you return just the strap for your Apple Watch, or at least is doing so inconsistently. The result...
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Why former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is taking the highest-resolution snowflake photos ever
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold spent 18 months building a custom 100MP camera to take pictures of snowflakes. In this edition of TechFirst with...
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Robots and AI can 10X productivity. Are they also better for workers?
In the future, most work might be done by robots, but right now, most is done by humans. How do we manage the transition? And, what does a humans +...
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Low Code Explosion: Why 37 Of The Top 50 Retail Apps Are Hybrid
The future of farms is vertical: 400X more yield, 95% less water, 99% less space
How mobile app tracking is changing (or, making the insane sane)
YouTube Will Now Show Ads On All Videos Even If Creators Don’t Want Them
Apple’s ‘Big Commission Cut’ Will Cost Only 2% Of App Store Revenue, According...
Apple Podcasts Web Embed Finally Arrives, Helping You Nibble Before Biting
Apple’s New ‘Big Sur’ Update Bricking Older Macs
No selling allowed: how Insight Timer is building the biggest meditation...
How to calculate ROAS in iOS 14 with SKAdNetwork
Elon Musk Tests Positive For Covid-19 (And Negative)
Thanks, Apple: Choosing Which Laptop To Buy Just Got Really Hard
Is space the future of IoT? Tracking rhinos, ships, and wind farms by micro...
MacBook Air 2020: 18 Hours Battery, 3.5X Faster, 5X Faster Graphics
Republican Facebook Exodus? Parler Hits #1 On App Store
This AI creates movies from hundreds of smartphones automagically
The US desperately needs new election tech. Time for blockchain?
YouTube Bug Cutting Creator Pay 50% Or More; YouTubers Becoming Desperate and...
pLTV in iOS 14: How to make SKAdNetwork conversion postbacks totally rock
Disney’s The Mandalorian ‘Performed Spectacularly,’ Closing In On World Series
Mobile ad monetization: challenges, trends, and future for this multi-billion...
Why Apple Might Lose The US Government’s War On Google
Starlink’s internet from space is faster than 95% of US internet...
Smartphones Q3 2020: Apple Down 11%, Xiaomi Up 42%, Samsung Up 3%, Huawei Down...
Apple’s Beta Software Program Going Nuts, Continually Requesting Updates
TikTok Owner ByteDance Selling Smart Lamp With Camera For School Kids
Digitally Transforming Oklahoma: One Website For Everything
Trump Has 16X More App Downloads Than Biden But 6X Less Social Engagement
Starlink’s Internet Anywhere Via SpaceX Satellite: $99/month
