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| January 21, 2021
It's January 21, 2021. It's National Hugging Day, so why not embrace everyone you can? If you can't do so safely, you could celebrate National Granola Bar Day instead. Mmmmm, granola bars. ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don’t have to): 322 articles, 7 podcasts, 13 press releases, 589 tweets, and 6 YouTube videos 1. LG Might Stop Making Phones Apparently, LG is losing money with its smartphone division. LG Electronics CEO Kwon Bong-Seok sent a memo out to employees that it was making major changes, including possibly quitting the business altogether. If you use LG phones, this could be the last one you own. 2. Netflix To Debut Shuffle Play This Year The streaming video company confirmed that its shuffle feature, in testing last year, will make its way to everyone's screens sometime soon. Similar to Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, this will choose something for you to watch based on your preferences and history. 3. @POTUS Twitter Account Reset for New President Twitter is in the process of transferring use and ownership of governmental accounts like @POTUS, @WhiteHouse, @FLOTUS, and @VP to their new recipients. Unfortunately, the user counts are also reset, so the new administration will need to build those up on their own. 🦑 Go Deeper There just aren't enough doctors to go around, and our own Sascha Brodsky takes a deeper look at what rural hospitals are doing with technology to compensate. 🎱 By the Numbers Poor Lenovo (Motorola) Data: Counterpoint Research Apple lost a few percentage points in Q3 2020, while Samsung gained a few. LG added one percentage point to its previous quarter's market share, but it's apparently not quite enough to keep its CEO happy. 🔥 Today's Hot Deal
Save $220 (down to $879.99) on this Acer Spin 5 Convertible Laptop with a 13.5-inch 2K IPS Touchscreen, 10th Gen Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD for all your computing needs. Don't Miss This Deal🤓 Nerd Out "Reduce, reuse, recycle." -Rob LeFebvre, Senior News Editor SpaceX's rocket launched yesterday morning carrying 60 Starlink satellites for deployment. This marks the eighth flight of the craft itself, showing us all how well a re-usable rocket ship works. (Share on Twitter) 💎 You Know You Want It Hue are the best Image: Phillips Currently, most smartlights controlled by a wall switch need to be left in an on position. You know how annoying it is when someone in your house absentmindedly flips the switch, right? These new wall switch replacements from Phillips could help avoid that annoying, first-world problem. 🚀 Facing the Future Agent 47 is behind you Hitman 3 is coming out for next generation consoles, and it's got a cool new feature: You can import all the levels from the previous games, Hitman and Hitman 2, to your PS5 (or PS4) and assassinate with aplomb. 🗞 Extra! Extra! We've got you covered with the best in daily tech news! See the latest on our site or follow us on Google News. Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here. Have something you’d like us to write about? We’re always open for suggestions, too.
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