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Netflix continues to improve its streaming platform on mobile devices. The company recently started releasing the new xHE-AAC codec for smartphones and tablets running Android 9.0 or higher. The novelty promises to bring “studio audio” to the platform, as it manages to optimize quality depending on the internet connection used for streaming. The codec also … Read more
A court in Washington, USA, on Thursday (21) denied Parler’s request to be reinstated to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosting service. In the legal dispute between the social network and the retail giant, Judge Barbara Rothstein denied Parler’s injunction request saying that the arguments were too weak in an antitrust complaint. In addition, the … Read more
Alphabet, a holding company that owns companies like Google, ended the Loon project, which aimed to make the Internet more accessible by transmitting the signal from balloons. The news was released on Thursday (21) on the blog at Google Lab X, with the title “the last Loon flight” (in free translation). In the text, the … Read more
The space exploration and transport company SpaceX will launch a new launch this Friday (22). If all the technical and climatic conditions are in agreement, takeoff is scheduled for 11 am (Brasília time). The cargo of the Falcon 9 rocket, which takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is the Transporter-1. This is SpaceX’s “free ride” … Read more
Google Meet now has an extension capable of transcribing what participants say in real-time meetings. Available for Google Chrome, the add-on made by Otter.ai uses artificial intelligence to transform, in real time, the voice of the call participants into blocks of text. After installation, the user needs to create an Otter.ai account to use the … Read more
Hashtags are already part of the daily life of the internet, and YouTube decided to improve the use of the function on its platform. Now, the video site displays the markings as pages on mobile and PC, which improves the visualization of productions with the same theme. Pages are displayed when the user clicks on … Read more
After the first year of use, Android phones lose 2x more value than iPhones, according to a report by BankMyCell, website that tracks smartphone exchange prices. With data referring to 2020, the document reveals that top-of-the-line cell phones depreciate 33.62%, against 16.70% of Apple models. Considering this proportion, if the user has used an Android … Read more
Mozilla promises to facilitate the installation of extensions on Firefox for Android in the next version of the browser, which will be released on January 25. According to the company, edition 85 of the mobile browser will feature a new page focused on add-ons that will bring an experience similar to what we have in … Read more
Last Monday (18), a report published by the Chinese analysis company Counterpoint Research stated promising news for the upcoming 6G transmission network. According to the document, transmission rates will reach speeds above 1 Tbps, or 1000 Gbps, surpassing with great advantage the current 5G record, capable of reaching its maximum “only” 10 Gbps. Innovative, the … Read more
Alibaba founder Jack Ma was seen after three months without appearing in public. His disappearance, which generated many speculations, ended this Wednesday (20) with a participation in the virtual ceremony of the Rural Teacher Initiative. The event, which takes place annually in the tourist city of Sanya, is held by the Jack Ma Foundation to … Read more