The Android app was first spotted by sleuths at Android Police, and we managed to find a version for iOS as well. But the company hasn’t made a formal announcement yet. [Read: Facebook begins placing labels on posts by ‘state-controlled media’] The description on the Play Store and App Store, along with sign-in information on the app suggests this app will be limited to Dropbox’s paying customers. Information on both stores notes that the app is using zero-knowledge encryption — a type of encryption where you don’t have to reveal the password for verification....

Serious audio recording started at the beginning of the 20th century, but it took until the 1940s before multitracking — the process of recording separate elements of a piece of music, then editing them together later — got started. Now, having vocals, drums, instrumental tracks and more all in separate digital audio files makes it simple to bring up the bass or eliminate a drumbeat from a track. But if you don’t have those separate audio pieces that can be manipulated individually, it’s virtually impossible to go into a finished song and surgically remove a vocal or some other specific piece on your own cleanly....

They argue that encryption protects criminals. But it also protects activists, dissidents, persecuted groups, and ordinary citizens. Edward Snowden is among the most prominent beneficiaries. The whistleblower’s first messages to journalists were made with encryption. They resulted in revelations that millions of Americans had been under illegal mass surveillance. “If you weaken encryption, people will die,” said Snowden in a statement. “This year alone, after the fall of the government of Afghanistan, we saw how crucial encryption is in keeping ordinary people safe....

El Salvador has just become the first nation to formally adopt the cryptocurrency as legal tender, and a handful of other Latin American leaders have indicated that they would follow suit. This marks a sharp change in bitcoin’s reputation on the global stage. Backed by a public ledger called “the blockchain”, holders of bitcoin enjoy a fast and secure way to make payments or receive funds. And El Salvador clearly has a need to receive funds fast....

Made in the USA Electric Bike Company is a relatively rare breed of an ebike brand in that its bikes are actually designed and built in the USA. Pretty much all of the company’s bikes are some variety of beach cruiser, and though some components are sourced from outside the US, the company builds frames to order in California. This includes optional custom paint jobs and wood trims on various parts of the bike, offering much more customization than any ebike I’ve tested....

The event was hosted by Andre Traurig, vehicle manufacturing lead at Tesla, and included a speech by Elon Musk, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economy Minister Robert Habeck, and Brandenburg Prime Minister, Dietmar Woidke in attendance. Big props to Tobia King who filmed and translated the opening speeches. You can watch the whole thing in the video below: This is a game-changer for the German auto market This is Tesla’s first manufacturing plant in Europe, and it hopes to produce roughly 30,000 vehicles in the first six months, with a target of manufacturing a whopping 500,000 cars per year in the future....

Tesla’s chief exec barely eclipsed Microsoft’s Bill Gates to claim the number two position overnight, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index. Mostly, Musk’s gains can be attributed to Tesla’s rampaging share price. Musk owns around 20% of all Tesla shares, meaning that when Tesla stock pumps, so does his paper fortune. Indeed, the enigmatic billionaire has added over $100 billion to his on-paper net worth in 2020, during which time Tesla stock absurdly returned more than 500%....

Often pegged as a primary Tesla rival, NIO is today worth almost $66 billion, making it the sixth most valuable carmaker in the world ahead of major marquees like US’ General Motors and Germany’s BMW. On the other hand, Elon Musk’s wunderstock Tesla is still number one, having eclipsed Toyota earlier this year. But while Tesla has impressively returned nearly 400% this year, its 2020 returns seem small compared NIO’s....

NBC News reporter April Glaser today released a bombshell report indicating Google’s pivoted toward appeasing conservatives in a company-wide rollback of inclusivity and diversity programs. According to Glaser, seven current and former Google employees are alleging the company is wittingly reducing its internal diversity programs in order to capitulate to Conservatives. The employees cite a program called Sojourn, designed to educate Googlers about racial injustice and bias, as one example of a diversity initiative that was unceremoniously eradicated for dubious reasons....

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), which is being behind the project, has now signed a hosting agreement with the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany, where JUPITER will be located. Under the terms of the agreement, JUPITER (which stands for “Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research”) will be installed on the campus of the Forschungszentrum Jülich research institute in 2023. The machine will be operated by the JSC....

As much as 99% of Facebook’s US$70.7 billion (£55 billion) in revenues come through advertising and the boycott initially resulted in an 8% knock to Facebook’s market value (amounting to US$72 billion). Yet, even with the hundreds of companies that signed up and big names like Adidas, Coca-Cola, Diageo, and Unilever on board, the likelihood of this bringing about significant changes at Facebook is still slim. [Read: Zuck thinks boycotting advertisers will return to Facebook — and he could be right] This is because Facebook has a vast cash cushion to ride out the campaign....

Its face de-identification tech, developed by three AI researchers who work with the company, modifies your face slightly in video content, so that facial recognition systems can’t match what they see in the footage with images of you in their databases. You can see this in action in this video (screenshot above), in which certain details are tweaked, such as the shape of a person’s mouth, or the size of their eyes....

Last month, Facebook announced a crackdown: The platform would no longer permit content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust” as part of its larger policy prohibiting hate speech. While noting that successful enforcement could take time, Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy, explained the ban in a blog post. “Our decision is supported by the well-documented rise in anti-Semitism globally and the alarming level of ignorance about the Holocaust, especially among young people,” she wrote....

One prototype device is equipped with headphones and microphones that capture surrounding sounds. It then tracks the movements of the user’s head and eye movement to work out what they’re trying to hear. This headset then enhances the sounds the user’s focused on, and turns the volume down on everything else. The specs don’t look particularly comfy or attractive — two of the reasons AR glasses have never taken off....

You’ll be able to send messages or initiate video calls with your contacts using either app. Plus, the company is introducing features to let you watch videos from Facebook Watch and IGTV with Reels being added soon. In a blog post, the company said people using Instagram can choose not to opt-in to this experience for now: However, it provided no clarity if users will be forced to make this choice later on....

Customer Relationship Management tools, otherwise known as CRMs, have been around as long as business in various forms. But over the past several years, the improvement of integrated tracking systems and features from providers like Salesforce have shown the true value of taking a tech-driven, yet holistic approach to dealing with each and every one of your customers. Unfortunately, all those bells and whistles make signing up with some of those CRM services prohibitively expensive....

This new era of streaming is often described as a golden age for movie lovers. All your favorite movies, available whenever you want them, right in your home. But actually…are they, really? Every month, Netflix, Disney, Apple and others play musical chairs with their film libraries, adding titles and — most importantly — deleting titles from their archives. Due to licensing terms and various corporate deals, it’s always tough to know where your favorite movie is available for stream…if it’s available at all....

Your workforce — once office based — is now fully remote and you find yourself spending more time speaking to your employees and colleagues online. You’re thankful for technology. It allows you to keep your business running, and interact with your workers and customers. [Read: 4 things all managers should avoid doing during the coronavirus pandemic] But — and this is a big but — you’re struggling to communicate effectively because the nuance of the offline world is missing online....

Did you know the right color can improve your brand recognition by up to 80 percent? Or that keeping your brand look consistent over all platforms can boost revenue by almost a quarter? It only takes a handful of looks for a customer to take note of a brand forever, so creating a logo that works is even more important than you’d probably believe. Since entrepreneurs aren’t often graphic designers — nor do they have the cash to hire one when first starting out, Designs....

What started as a small collection of voices on Twitter has now ballooned into a full-blown movement, as more and more women in gaming come forward with accusations against men who’ve allegedly abused or assaulted them. As several observers have pointed out, it seems long overdue for the industry. Several women came forward earlier this week to disclose the names of men who’d sexually abused them or engaged in predatory behavior, and now many more have followed....