TikTok enlists Teespring to oversee new merch feature

TikTok enlists Teespring to oversee new merch feature

TikTok creators will soon be able to sell original merchandise within the app. Having always had the potential to become an eCommerce powerhouse, TikTok is finally rolling out integration for in-app merch purchases this September. Teaming up with custom apparel platform Teespring, TikTok users across the globe will now be able...

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Twitter calls out disturbing new TikTok Holocaust trend

Twitter calls out disturbing new TikTok Holocaust trend

TikTok users have been dressing up as Holocaust victims as part of a semi-viral trend. Unsurprisingly, The Auschwitz Memorial Museum has asked for it to stop. TikTok has been through the ringer recently. In recent months it’s faced accusations of Chinese spyware, criticisms of deep fake investment, and Trump has...

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Google transforms recycled bottles into Pixel phone cases

Google transforms recycled bottles into Pixel phone cases

In its quest to build more sustainable infrastructure, Google has released a series of phone cases made from recycled plastic for the Pixel 4a. It’s becoming common knowledge that the amount of waste in landfill sites is growing every year, and proprietors of annually renewing tech must take part of...

Microsoft offers TikTok US lifeline with potential deal

Microsoft offers TikTok US lifeline with potential deal

Microsoft is in advanced discussions over a potential TikTok purchase in the US, as President Trump looks to address the platform’s privacy concerns. After TikTok’s meteoric rise during lockdown saw it become the most downloaded app of 2020, parent company ByteDance and host-nation China were dragged through the mud in the mainstream media. Reports of invasive data collection software within TikTok’s programming sparked global trepidation over Chinese surveillance, with India...

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Twitter’s new audio feature will transform it, for better or worse

Twitter’s new audio feature will transform it, for better or worse

Heated political discussion is no longer confined to your phone’s keyboard, as Twitter begins to test out new audio tweet features for iOS. You only need to browse Twitter for five minutes to notice that it’s a very political space where anyone can argue via aggressive tweeting and reactionary gifs. This defining quality is somewhat of a double-edged sword. While it’s useful to keep informed via other perspectives outside of your...

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Huawei trumps Samsung as top smartphone vendor this quarter

Huawei trumps Samsung as top smartphone vendor this quarter

Thanks to a Covid-19 slump from Samsung, China’s smartphone giant Huawei has shipped more handsets than any other vendor in the last quarter. Huawei’s long harboured ambition to trump Samsung to the title of biggest smartphone seller has finally come to fruition, according to a new report from analyst firm Canalys. Like most industries, smartphone manufacturing and sales have been altered drastically by circumstantial conditions imposed by...

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Instagram’s shopping feature is looking to be ‘the new mall’

Instagram’s shopping feature is looking to be ‘the new mall’

As fashion and beauty turns to tech to stay afloat during the Coronavirus pandemic, online-platform shopping features are set to become 'the new mall.' Though the thought of returning to a mall in the middle of a global pandemic might seem unusual to most, many are finding themselves longing for the familiar hustle and bustle of weaving through hordes of people in search of a single t-shirt. However, if you...

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