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Paramus NJ, Chipotle (CMG) has begun accepting cryptocurrency payments through Flexa, a digital payments platform.
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Ridgewood NJ, want more privacy, the Murena One is a high-end privacy-focused smartphone that runs the open-source /e/OS Android fork. /e/OS has almost all of its Google services removed and replaced with MicroG or other services. It features Google-free apps and it can run most Android apps. The phone has an eight-core processor, 4GB ram, 128GBs storage, and a 6.5-inch display. It features a 25-megapixel camera for selfies and three cameras with 5, 8, and 48-megapixels on the back. The Murena One will launch this month in the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, and Switzerland for $369.
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Ridgewood NJ, Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from her role as Chief Operating Officer at Meta. Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 and helped turn the company into an advertising juggernaut. Javier Olivan will take over as COO this fall. Sandberg will now be able to focus more on her philanthropic work. She will continue to serve on Meta’s board of directors.
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Jack Dorsey has left the board of Twitter. Dorsey resigned from his CEO position last fall. He is friendly with Elon Musk and has discussed rolling over his 2.4% ownership stake in Twitter into Musk’s takeover deal. Dorsey’s next move remains unclear.
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Ridgewood NJ, Mastercard is launching a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods. Customers will be able to authenticate their payments through facial recognition or fingerprint scanning at checkout instead of using their cards. The system has already been tested in five grocery stores in Brazil. Mastercard plans to roll out the system globally later this year. The biometric tools are part of Mastercard’s plans for the metaverse.
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Ridgewood NJ, to fight greenhouse gas emissions drink more vodka . A new company Air Vodka is made in part from greenhouse gas emissions, specifically, captured carbon dioxide CO2.
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Ridgewood NJ, file this under what could possibly go wrong with that, researchers have developed an AI system that reads live camera footage and adapts traffic lights to keep traffic flowing and reduce congestion. The researchers used deep reinforcement learning to create the system, rewarding it when cars go through a junction and giving it negative feedback when cars have to wait or there is a jam. It was trained through simulations and significantly outperformed all other methods when tested. The program can be set up to view any traffic junction and can learn autonomously. The researchers hope to begin testing their system on real roads this year.
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Ridgewood NJ, gardeners of the world rejoice ,scientists have grown plants in lunar soil using samples collected during the Apollo missions to the moon. The scientists grew thale cress, a small flowering plant that is attractive to researchers as it is well studied and its genetic code has been mapped. Almost all of the plants planted in the lunar soil sprouted. However, the plants showed signs of struggle and stress. Growing plants in the lunar soil could alter the moon’s soil and make resources from the soil available in useful forms.
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Ridgewood NJ, Twitter’s consumer product leader Kayvon Beykpour and general manager of revenue Bruce Falck have been asked to leave the company. Jay Sullivan will take over as both the head of product and interim head of revenue. Twitter had goals to deliver big growth in audience and revenue but it did not hit its milestones. The company is also pausing most hiring and backfills except for business-critical roles. It will pull back on non-labor costs to ensure it is being responsible and efficient.
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Ridgewood NJ, Apple is discontinuing the iPod Touch. It will still sell the current Touch while supplies last. The first iPod Touch was introduced over 20 years ago. The current seventh-gen model was introduced in 2019. It was popular with those who wanted an iPhone-like experience but didn’t actually need a phone.
Video commercials are all the rage right now. It seems like every company is using them to promote their products or services. And for good reason – they can be incredibly effective at getting your message across to potential customers. If you’re thinking about creating a video commercial for your business, here are some tips to help you make it the best it can be!
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Ridgewood NJ, Netflix plans to roll out an ad-supported tier in the final three months of this year. It will also roll out its plan to charge an extra fee for those who want to share accounts around the same time. Netflix’s decision to introduce the ad-supported tier was made due to Hulu and Disney’s success with the model. The company’s stock plummeted 37% after it announced its advertising plan and it has still not recovered.
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Ridgewood NJ, a group of US-based Apple employees called Apple Together, issued an open letter to CEO Tim Cook protesting his plan to have them go back to the office for three days a week. They said such a move is “only driven by fear” of making the company more diverse and inclusive.
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Ridgewwood NJ, Apple, Google, and Microsoft have launched a joint effort to kill the password and replace it with the passkey standard. The passkey standard allows users to log in to apps and websites through an authentication request sent to the user’s phone. It will use Bluetooth to verify physical proximity. Passkeys can be backed up to cloud services to make it easy to authenticate new devices and sync passkeys across devices. Users can set up multiple devices as authenticators.
