WhatsApp is rolling out a new update that will let you use any emoji as a reaction. The company first announced the emoji reaction feature in April, but started to make it available to everyone in May. At that time, you could only react via six available emoji: thumbs up, heart, joined hands, tears of…
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Neji Tawo, the founder of boutique software development company Wiscount Corporation, says he was inspired by his dad to become an engineer. When Tawo was a kid, his dad tasked him with coming up with a formula to calculate the gas in the fuel tanks at his family’s station. Tawo then created an app for…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest, boldest and baddest technology news. After some holiday weeks, we are back on an actual Monday! What a treat. Here’s what we got into: Stocks…
The smart home concept is increasingly becoming the norm. Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in voice recognition assistants and connected devices to make our busy lives more seamless. With a few speaking commands, we don’t have to lift a finger to play music, stream content, turn off the lights, or pick…
If you’re trying to fill the Stranger Things-shaped hole in your life after the end of Stranger Things 4, a quick phone call to a certain West Coast pizza joint is just what you need. Surfer Boy Pizza and its lovable stoner employee Argyle (Eduardo Franco) played a large role in Stranger Things 4. Argyle…
Your high school cliques could soon be a part of workplace calls due to a new update coming to Microsoft Teams. The video conferencing platform is making a tweak to its Together Mode that will allow meeting organizers to assign specific seats to certain participants. This means that teams of co-workers, friends or even just…
Ahead of the Amazon Prime Day 2022 sales, online shoppers have been urged to be on their guard once again against scams and online fraud. A report from Juniper research has estimated that if current trends persist, the total overall losses to online payment fraud for merchants across the world between 2023 and 2027 will…
Donald Trump (left) and a phone displaying his social media app, Truth Social. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Christoph Dernbach/picture alliance via Getty Images Digital World Acquisition climbed 15% Monday after Elon Musk walked away from his Twitter bid. Musk cited a lack of clarity over spam accounts as driving his decision to leave the deal. But he…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) during a break in a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The House Select Committee investigating the January 6…