David Dobrik’s photo app Dispo raises $20m in funding

David Dobrik’s photo app Dispo raises $20m in funding

Dispo lets users take pictures through disposable camera filters and locks them for viewing until 9am the next day, imitating the vintage experiences of 90s photographers. You may know David Dobrik for his YouTube vlogs and Madison Beer antics, but he’s also a savvy venture capitalist and tech innovator. His...

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Instagram announces permanent suspensions for hate speech in DMs

Instagram announces permanent suspensions for hate speech in DMs

At long last, Instagram is cracking down on racist and derogatory content within its direct messenger function. Hate speech will now lead to permanent account suspensions. Instances of racism on Instagram are once again receiving mainstream attention, and parent company Facebook is determined to finally nip the issue in the...

Elon Musk pledges $100m to fund carbon capture contest

Elon Musk pledges $100m to fund carbon capture contest

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched a carbon capture competition to faster cut back on global emissions, and the most impressive invention will receive a $50m cash prize. We all talk a big game on Twitter, but Elon Musk is one to regularly follow up on his midnight musings. Looking to put his $203bn fortune to good use, Elon Musk is creating a competition that will see contestants develop innovative technologies...

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TikTok to tackle misinformation with fact checkers and content warnings

TikTok to tackle misinformation with fact checkers and content warnings

Falling in line with the big social networking sites, TikTok is now attempting to tackle its spread of misinformation with in-app warnings and fact checkers. While TikTok is all about fun and games, its insatiable rise to the top of mainstream culture now demands a more thorough look into the types of content spreading on its platform. Safety first people, safety first. Chief on the list of concerns admist a global...

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Stadia’s internal closure bets on industry shift to Cloud gaming

Stadia’s internal closure bets on industry shift to Cloud gaming

14 months after Stadia’s high-profile launch, Google is closing the company’s internal game development studio. Its once exclusive Cloud technology is now open to potential suitors. It’s taken Google 14 months to realise it doesn’t want to be a game making company anymore. Grandiose ambitions first revealed at the Game Developers Conference 2019 have never come close to fruition for Google’s Stadia. It originally teased its own Cloud-based console, a controller,...

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High school astronomers have discovered four new ‘exoplanets’

High school astronomers have discovered four new ‘exoplanets’

A teenage duo from a Massachusetts high school have discovered four new exoplanets and co-authored a paper in the Astronomical Journal. It’s high time we officially axed the term ‘pie in the sky’. Two Massachusetts high schoolers have blossomed from keen physics students into renowned astronomers seemingly overnight. Thanks to a mentorship program at the Center for Astrophysics; Harvard and Smithsonian, both will go down in history for uncovering the existence...

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