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Facebook rolls out encrypted voice and video calls, Reddit reaches a $10 billion valuation, and fiery power supplies? It’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Monday August 16, and I’m your host, Tom Li. Facebook has finally rolled out end-to-end encryption for voice and video calls for Messenger,…
We pride ourselves on getting the facts right. A story in our August 10 episode didn’t measure up to our standards. So we’ve re-recorded the story so you don’t have to go back, here’s what we should have said… Alberta’s privacy commissioner claimed that Babylon, a Telus Health app that helped to facilitate telemedicine, didn’t…
Published: August 4th, 2021 Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama may get a second shot at voting on unionizing, Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million to settle claims that the company lied about end-to-end encryption, and “nontraditional” Silicon Valley investors are moving in as tech startups grow. It’s all the tech news that’s trending right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Wednesday, August 4, and I’m your host, Tom Li. Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama could have a second chance to vote on whether to form the company’s first unionized warehouse in the U.S. This news com...
Published: June 10th, 2021 El Salvador officially adopts bitcoin as legal tender, IRS data reveals billionaires paid almost no income tax and Biden dumps Trump’s TikTok ban. It’s all the biz/tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Thursday, June 10 and I’m your host Tom Li. El Salvador has officially passed the bill to make bitcoin legal tender. On Wednesday, President Nayib Bukele sent the law to congress for the vote. The country’s congress voted by a “super majority” favouring the law, scoring 62 out of 84 votes. Shortly after the vote, the pr...
Wedding celebrations largely took a hiatus after the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in 2020. Among couples who had a set wedding date between March and December 2020, 47% postponed their wedding receptions, according to The Knot’s 2020 Real Weddings COVID Study. The trend continued this year.