 |  | | Thursday, January 09, 2020 ⢠By Anthony Ha |
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Happy Thursday Twitter announces a new way for users to control the conversation around their tweets, Quibi executives offer more details about their mobile video tech and IAC pulls the plug on CollegeHumor. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 9, 2020. |
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| Twitter users will soon have four options to âtailorâ the replies to their tweets: anyone can reply, only those followed by the user can reply, only those tagged can reply, or setting a tweet to allow no replies at all. At CES, Twitter’s head of conversations Suzanne Xie said the feature builds on the already launched ability to hide replies: “We thought, well, what if we could actually put more control into the authorâs hands before the fact? Give them really a way to control the conversation space, as theyâre actually composing a tweet?” Read more |
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| Quibi is using a new engineering technology itâs calling âTurnstyle,â which allows the viewer to move between portrait mode viewing and landscape viewing, seamlessly â and without any black bars to fill the rest of the screen when switching to landscape video. Read more |
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| CollegeHumor will continue on with a new owner and a dramatically reduced team. Reich announced the move on Twitter, saying that digital media holding company IAC âmade the difficult decision to no longer finance us,â but that it would allow him to ârun with the company.â Read more |
|  Image Credits: CollegeHumor |
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| Instead of banning political ads, Facebook is announcing a few tweaks to the information it lets users see about political ads â claiming itâs boosting âtransparencyâ and âcontrols.” Natasha Lomas is not impressed. Read more |
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| Founder and CEO Aaron Rasmussen previously helped to popularize online learning as co-founder and creative director at MasterClass. When Outlier launched last year, Rasmussen told me his goal is to address the growing cost of higher education by offering a more affordable alternative. Read more |
|  Image Credits: Outlier |
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| Sidewalk Labs and its portfolio company AMP Robotics are working on a pilot program that would provide residents of a single apartment building of 250 units in Toronto with detailed information about their recycling habits. In other words, waste is categorized, sorted and recorded at a materials recovery facility, and Sidewalk will communicate with building residents about how theyâre doing in their recycling efforts. Read more |
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| Last year was a landmark for online privacy in many ways, with consensus emerging that consumers deserve protection from the companies that sell their attention and behavior for profit. The debate now is largely around how to regulate platforms, not whether it needs to happen. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more |
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