Welcome to the first Pulse of November 2019! Have you noticed that in less than 60 days, this decade
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Welcome to the first Pulse of November 2019! Have you noticed that in less than 60 days, this decade ends? This decade! That puts a lot in perspective - well, at least for me! Now, dive inâŠ
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Instagram is now running paid ads on TikTok! Paying money and following the attention [Twitter].
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Googleâs parent company, Alphabet, is buying Fitbit. The acquisition pits Alphabet against fellow tech giant Apple in the wearable fitness tracking space. Fitbit says Google is paying $7.35 per share in cash for the company, valuing it at about $2.1 billion [CNBC], which is twice as much as Facebook reportedly offered [Verge].
- The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Coâs $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly [Reuters] - something that couldâve, but didnât happen when the acquisition went through.
- Internet Archive makes it easy to read books cited on Wikipedia [TNW] - Yay!
- Government officials around the globe targeted for hacking through WhatsApp [Reuters].
- Russia just brought in a law to try to disconnect its internet from the rest of the world. Russiaâs âsovereign internetâ law went into effect on Friday. The law tightens Moscowâs control over the countryâs internet infrastructure and aims to provide a way for Russia to disconnect its networks from the rest of the world. However, experts doubt whether such a move is technically possible [CNBC].
- Driving license tests just got smarter in India with Microsoftâs AI project [TechCrunch]!
- Twitter banned all political ads from its platform [Twitter].
- Apple Inc asked the Trump administration to waive tariffs on Chinese-made Apple Watches, iPhone components and other consumer products, according to company filings with the U.S. Trade Representativeâs Office [Reuters].
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Shannon OâConnorâs OK BOOMER hoodie - Credit: Shannon OâConnor
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âOK Boomerâ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations Now itâs war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality. In a viral audio clip on TikTok, a white-haired man in a baseball cap and polo shirt declares, âThe millennials and Generation Z have the Peter Pan syndrome, they donât ever want to grow up.â Thousands of teens have responded through remixed reaction videos and art projects with a simple phrase: âok boomer.â âOk boomerâ has become Generation Zâs endlessly repeated retort to the problem of older people who just donât get it, a rallying cry for millions of fed up kids. Teenagers use it to reply to cringey YouTube videos, Donald Trump tweets, and basically any person over 30 who says something condescending about young people â and the issues that matter to them.
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Poor Bing! - Credit: Statista
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Google: The Most Popular Search on Bing Poor Bing. The beleaguered search engine with dreams of world domination never really had a chance against its all-conquering competitor, Google. Adding insult to injury, analysis by SEO experts Ahrefs has revealed that in 2019, the search Bing is most often tasked with is pointing its disloyal users in the direction of âgoogleâ. As of July, the search engine dealt with 44.4 million such queries from around the world, far more than the second most frequent - 'youtubeâ was searched for 33.3 million times. In another blow for Bingâs owner Microsoft, the fifth most common search was people looking for help with Windows 10.
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Top Apps Worldwide for 3Q19 by Downloads - Credit: SensorTower
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Top Apps Worldwide for Q3 2019 by Downloads WhatsApp was again the most downloaded app in Q3 2019 with close to 184 million first-time installs. WhatsApp has been the No. 1 downloaded app each quarter since Q3 2016, when Pokémon GO took the top spot. The second most downloaded app worldwide in 3Q19 was TikTok with more than 176 million new installs. The third highest performing app was Messenger, followed by Facebook and Instagram.
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Mobile matters - Ofcom
Ofcom has researched consumersâ behaviour and experience of using mobile services in the UK by analysing crowdsourced data collected from Android devices.
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Previagram: Preview your ideal photo grid and create mosaics for free.
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đĄ [ pulse ]: A collaborative playlist on Spotify
This time, letâs share! Add a couple of your current favourite songs to the playlist for every Pulse member to enjoy!
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We thought we needed flying cars and instead all we got was the snooze function in Gmail.
Itâs funny how things work out for the best.
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The most accurate description of Daylight Saving - Credit: Reddit/u/Colin_Shade
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Free Anti-Virus Software to the Rescue
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