📡 The 😇 & 😈 in you.
Welcome to this Sunday’s Pulse!
Like always, I hope you’re well, safe — and happily quarantined!
Whether you’re enjoying the lockdown or just bearing it, try to make the best of it… This will end, and you’ll look back at this; make sure you won’t regret it…
Now… it’s another long, but fun, issue; so, let’s dive in!
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— 𝕭𝖊𝖓 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 [ 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖛𝖊 𝖎𝖝 ]
🗞 NEWS
hard to ignore tiktok these days!
Facebook launches Messenger Rooms for group video chat; it will allow up to 50 people to join a call; rolling out globally in the coming weeks [TheVerge]
facebook: we don’t need to innovate; let others do it, we just rebuild it :|
Telegram now has 400 million MAUs; up from 300M a year ago. Also, secure group video calls are coming to Telegram sometime this year [Telegram]
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Apple says it found no evidence of hackers exploiting the newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad [Bloomberg]
not saying it wasn’t there or they’ve fixed it; more like, don’t worry about it!
Apple Watch turned 5 this week and One of its original designers tweeted a behind-the-scenes look at its development [TheVerge]
take a look; it’s quite interesting.
UK’s Communication Workers Union says it’s had reports of about 120 cases of abuse, including murder threats, directed at engineers believed to be working on 5G [BBC]
this is how dumb we, as a species, can get! 🤦♂️
Google now alerts you when search results suck [TNW]
the power to be self-aware!
Facebook invests $5.7 billion in Jio for a 9.99% stake, making it the largest minority shareholder in the subsidiary of India’s most valued firm, Reliance Industries [TechCrunch]
facebook’s commitment to India and competition with China’s ByteDance continues…
Apple launched App Store, iCloud, Apple Arcade, and Apple Podcasts in 20 new countries; Apple Music expands to 52 new countries [Apple]
Apple Music: 🇩🇿🇦🇴🇧🇯🇹🇩🇱🇷🇲🇬🇲🇼🇲🇱🇲🇷🇲🇿🇳🇦🇨🇬🇸🇳🇸🇨🇸🇱🇹🇿🇹🇳🇧🇹🇭🇷🇮🇸🇲🇰🇧🇸🇬🇾🇯🇲🇲🇸🇱🇨🇻🇨🇸🇷🇹🇨🇺🇾🇰🇼🇶🇦🇾🇪🇸🇧
App Store, Arcade, Podcasts, Apple Music, and iCloud: 🇨🇲🇨🇮🇨🇩🇬🇦🇱🇾🇲🇦🇷🇼🇿🇲🇲🇻🇲🇲🇧🇦🇬🇪🇽🇰🇲🇪🇷🇸🇮🇶🇹🇴🇻🇺; 🇦🇫🇳🇷(excluding Apple Music)
Boston Dynamics’ Spot finds a new career in telemedicine amid COVID-19 pandemic [TechCrunch]
this is one of the coolest things i’ve read this week!
💰 EARNINGS CALLS
Netflix reports Q1 revenue of $5.77B, up 27.6% YoY, vs $5.76B est., global streaming paid net additions of 15.77M, now totalling 182.86M accounts, up 22.8% YoY [CNBC]
Snap (Snapchat’s Parent Company) reports in Q1 DAUs increased 20% YoY to 229M, revenue increased 44% YoY to $462M, time spent watching Discover content rose 35%+; stock up 18%+ after hours [Snap]
Huawei reports Q1 revenue of $25.8B, up 1.4% YoY, compared to 39% growth in 2019, and net profit margin of 7.3%, down from 8% in Q1 2019 [CNBC]
IBM reports Q1 revenue of $17.6B, down 3.4% YoY, total cloud revenue of $5.4B, up 19% YoY, says it’s withdrawing full year guidance amid the COVID-19 crisis [CNBC]
🧠 INSIGHTS
Credit: Ravi Roshan on Unsplash
What brings out the best in you?
What brings out the worst?
One more question: Is it possible to adjust your life so that you show up more often in situations that bring out the best? Can you have an agenda, a rider or an itinerary that makes it more likely that the world around you is what you need it to be?
Because if you can’t, there’s one other option: Can you change your posture so that the situations you’re in a lot bring out your best instead of your worst?
Ideal situations are often rare—now more so than ever. But we can redefine ‘ideal situation’ if we choose.
from Seth Godin’s Blog.
note to self: you’re more powerful than you think you are; specifically, here.
📊 STATISTICS
Zoom's Growth - Credit: Statista
Zoom Grows Exponentially
The usage of popular productivity tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams have increased drastically since the beginning of social distancing restrictions from COVID-19. Now, one of the most widely used video conferencing tools has released data showing its number of daily users has grown exponentially.
Video conferencing company Zoom released data showing the number of daily users in meetings is roughly 300 million. That’s an astounding 50 percent increase from the 200 million number they released just a month earlier. Even more shocking, Zoom’s daily user rate was reportedly only roughly 10 million in December of last year. That’s an increase of 30 times in just four months.
Read more on Statista.
can zoom sustain this rate of growth post-pandemic? probably not…
COVID‑19 - Mobility Trends Reports by Apple
COVID‑19 mobility trends in countries/regions and cities. Reports are published daily and reflect requests for directions.
i checked Manchester; try your own city, region, or country.
COVID-19 - Community Mobility Report
See how your community is moving around differently due to COVID-19
again, i checked Manchester; try your own city, region, or country. Google’s giving you a PDF file.
Playing with data visualisation. The 2008/9 crisis totally changed the picture for print. Wondering about contemporary parallels in other industries (and whether this needs a key) https://t.co/oKJVzC8opT
🧵 worth reading 👆
📱 TOOLS & APPS
Subscrybe: Never forget to cancel a subscription again [Brave/Chrome]
been using it for a long time and it’s pretty handy!
everysize: Check your responsive webpage in every size 🖥 💻 📱 👀
working with web and design? this is so useful!
98.css: a CSS library for building interfaces that look like Windows 98
again, if you’re a designer — and remember windows 98!
Emoji Kitchen: Bake your own emojis!
this is fun 😆
PodLink: The easiest way to share podcasts
found this today, seems handy; and i really liked their UI…
🔍 SPOTTED
Instagram is working on account memorialisation [link]
TikTok lets you login & view profile analytics on the web [link]
Instagram is rolling out a Challenge sticker [link]
Instagram is highlighting new camera features for stories [link]
Twitter is testing the ability to view quote tweets! [link]
🎧 AUDIO STIMULATION
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop - How I Built This with Guy Raz
On the first day of their Vegas vacation in 2012, Rich and Vicki Fulop sat down on their hotel bed and immediately had the same thought: “These sheets are really nice!” The fabric was the perfect blend of cool, crisp, and soft, but the sheets turned out to be way too expensive to buy. So, Vicki and Rich wondered if it was possible to make high-end linen at reasonable prices; linen that would appeal to a younger market, “not just our moms.” After many stumbles, they built Brooklinen into a $100 million brand, and are hopeful they can withstand today’s economic turbulence.
my favourite podcast — and another great story i was kinda jealous of! 😁
🐦 TWEETS of the WEEK
[first person to eat an onion] this apple is haunted
Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.
Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.
Make these habits. Say no to everything else.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.
Relax. Victory is assured.
i owe the Jurassic Park franchise an apology, it is in fact very realistic the rich would reopen a park in spite of it consistently resulting in mass death
😂 FUN STUFF
i don't want to hear another word about bat soup 😑
https://t.co/UBn6BFwccu
Had to post it here too. 😂 I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks I’m a genius 🙃 https://t.co/yuqzfahpws
So often true 🤣🤣 https://t.co/qxmDtZ4Buf
Mess with the bull. https://t.co/3Ikn1kL7N7
Thought I’d draw a more accurate calendar for 2020 so far.... https://t.co/hWB9W4PIAH
This is too real 😂
oh to be a cat who has dunked his lil face into nacho cheese https://t.co/vp9yu0KFhe
Kids running around in a glass maze are hilarious
seriously
That's all for this week...
let’s hope there’s another one coming! see you then.
ciao