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OnePlus 1, Google Nexus 9, … won’t work on T-Mobile starting Jan 29
Note that they are all older devices with the most recent one being 2016’s Huawei P9. T-Mobile reportedly started informing its affected customers about the changes via mail from 18th December last year, followed by SMS-based notifications on December 28th, giving them around one month to replace their devices
Evernote unveils new “Home” dashboard full of handy widgets
Last September, Evernote, the well-known note app and task management platform, announced a major redesign for mobile website and apps. On January 13th, Evernote officially unveiled its very new dashboard called “Home” which is the first of several new features added to its software this year.
“First 24 hours” metric is now available on YouTube Analytics
Data collected from the first 24 hours of a video on YouTube will be available for every newly published video. Historical data is only available for videos that were published from 2019 forward, while videos published before 2019 will not have the data of the first 24 hours view.
Steam 2020 Year in Review: What a huge year for Steam and PC gaming!
In addition to a lot of newcomers to Steam and the massive extra time spent playing, its data also revealed an increase of 21.4% in the number of games sold in 2020. Notably, the peak concurrent players on this platform were as many as 24.8 million people, setting a new record for the number of players playing at once for the second time last year.
Pandemic dramatically sped up the shift to online shopping
Consumers will go back to physical stores when it is safe but not as often as usual or as before the pandemic. Going forward, consumers tend to make repetitive purchases of daily items over the internet like what they have done during months of lockdowns and business closures.
Over 2 billion tweets about Gaming in 2020
2020 was the year people all spent a lot of time at home. And the year video games were played more than ever before. 2020 was also the first year ever sawing more than 2 billion gaming tweets, according to Twitter’s new metrics. This is up 75 percent from 2019, with a 49 percent growth in unique authors.
Airtel Says 512Kbps Enough for Broadband Connection, But Data Rejects
However, the telecom operator Bharti Airtel said that the definition of broadband internet should contribute to increasing broadband penetration in the country, and the change of definition in the minimum speed of a broadband connection should be in sync with global trends.
Fastest-Ever Internet Speed Could Download Whole Netflix in Seconds
The researchers from University College London (UCL) in the UK achieved the new world record for the fastest internet of 178 terabits a second, which is five times faster than the previous world record held by a team in Japan and close to the theoretical limitations of the data transmission set out by American mathematician Claude Shannon in 1949.
China Updates Its Regulation For Internet Era
The emerge of many big tech companies such as TikTok and social media has turned the internet into an essential platform for multiple social activities. Therefore, Chinese authorities have been tightening their grip on the internet to ensure online activities do not compromise the country’s national security interests.
Google Pauses Political Ads Through Biden’s Inauguration
Google’s ad bans are aimed to curb any misleading information about highly sensitive events. “Given the events of the past week, we will expand our Sensitive Event policy enforcement to temporarily pause all political ads in addition to any ads referencing impeachment, the inauguration, or protests at the U.S. Capitol,” a spokeswoman wrote in an email.