Month: February 2021

Acquisition of Drizly, which will be integrated into Uber’s Eats platform but maintain separate app, pushes share price up 6.5% Uber is acquiring on-demand alcohol platform Drizly for about $1.1bn as the ride-share company looks to expand delivery services that have flourished during the pandemic. Related: Trump impeachment defense team recycles lies about election fraud …

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Company’s iOS 14.5 release will allow masked users to access devices with help from Apple Watch heart-rate sensor A year into the global pandemic, Apple has solved the problem of how to unlock iPhones with Face ID without removing your face mask – at least, it has for its most dedicated customers. In the latest …

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Kevin Macdonald’s film aims to give a snapshot of the modern world but its context-free clips look more like a corporate ad Sensory overload and incoherence are sadly the dominant qualities of this idealistic crowdsourced YouTube video project from director Kevin Macdonald and executive producer Ridley Scott, which is about everything and nothing. It is …

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Cryptocurrency rises above $38,000 after Tesla boss changes his biography on Twitter to ‘#bitcoin’ The price of bitcoin rose on Monday after Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla chief executive, said he was a “supporter” of the cryptocurrency. “Bitcoin is a good thing,” Musk said in comments broadcast on social audio app Clubhouse on Monday. Musk …

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Paul Fletcher plays down Google threat and says government will not back down on news media code Microsoft’s Bing is ready to swoop if Google makes good on its threat to remove search from Australia when the mandatory news code becomes law, the government has revealed. The communications minister, Paul Fletcher, said Google dominated in …

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It just won’t believe that I did not buy £437-worth of earphones I am at my wits’ end. Last July my Amazon account was hacked and two purchases made – for £8 vape coils and four sets of Huawei wireless earphones costing £437. I spotted the Amazon Marketplace purchases within 12 hours but was told, …

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