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♻️ Daisy: Apple's Recycling Robot

It's capable of recovering valuable components from nine #iPhone models & succeeds where traditional recyclers fail.

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💾 Generation Gap!

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⚡️ 55% of European retail sales will either take place online or be digitally-influenced offline sales by 2021. (Source: Forrester)

INSIGHT
👻 #Snapchat experiments with sharing ad revenue with creators: prs.pctvix.co/2yFzEOu

OTHER NEWS
🤑 #Monzo partners with #TransferWise for international payments: t.me/iXNews/28132

📺 7 #IGTV video ideas you can steal for your brand or business: prs.pctvix.co/2yHphts

🤓 #Spectacles’ latest update finally optimizes videos for sharing outside #Snapchat: t.me/iXNews/28090

🗞 #Reddit launches a ‘News’ tab into beta testing: t.me/iXNews/28084

🤷‍♀️ TanaCon: How a convention thrown in retaliation led to mass chaos, cancellation: t.me/iXNews/28130

🚫 #MicrosoftEdge for #Android now comes with a built-in ad blocker: t.me/iXNews/28142

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​​🗓 The Road to Ubiquity is Getting Shorter
Time innovations needed for 50 million users (in years)

When #PokemonGo got released, it took only 19 days until 50 million people to started running around the streets blind.

When in 1909 Ferdinand Count of Zeppelin laid out parts of the foundation for todays interconnected world by founding the very first airline, it took 64 years for the same amount of people to use this innovation.

The impact an innovation has on humankind is quite irrelevant for how fast it gets picked up by people. More important is the ever-extending interconnection of our world.

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🎉 WiFi Party!

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⚡️ The leading activity in apps is digital audio, with the average US adult listening to over 50 minutes of audio via mobile apps per day. Social networking is next, with 40 minutes of app time. The other major categories are mobile video, gaming and messaging. Of these five, gaming is growing most slowly. (Source: eMarketer)

INSIGHT
📺 How brands are using #Instagram’s new long-form video feature, #IGTV: prs.pctvix.co/2yPgJAC

OTHER NEWS
🇻🇪 Venezuela is blocking access to the Tor network: t.me/iXNews/28209

📱 #iOS12 is all about making your phone work better (Public Beta Available Now): t.me/iXNews/28205

💰 #VidCon’s new grant will award one emerging YouTuber $2,000 each week for a year: t.me/iXNews/28186

🐦 #Twitter returns to #AppleWatch thanks to #Chirp: t.me/iXNews/28182

🇨🇳 John Oliver is erased from Chinese internet following segment on China: t.me/iXNews/28183
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​​🍔 McDonald’s Golden Arches Lead Drivers to the Nearest Restaurant

Kinda like Wizard of Oz’s ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’

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⚡️ 55% of UK consumers say the ads they see on websites are not usually relevant to them, 38% say they dislike advertising and 53% say that they are ambivalent to it. (Source: Kantar)

INSIGHT
🧠 A new AI programme developed by Stanford scientists recreated the periodic table in just a few hours: prs.pctvix.co/2tx9PuW

OTHER NEWS
⛓ #Facebook is reversing its ban on cryptocurrency ads: t.me/iXNews/28285

📘 #Facebook launches print magazine called ‘Grow’: prs.pctvix.co/2twrX87

❓ #Instagram’s NEW ‘Questions’ sticker for Stories is now rolling out: prs.pctvix.co/2txM9q8

🎙 #Amazon adds voice control to its #Alexa iOS app: t.me/iXNews/28305

📹 #Instagram now lets you 4-way group video chat as you browse: t.me/iXNews/28268

🚖 A court has granted Uber a 15-month probationary license to operate in London: t.me/iXNews/28304
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​​⏳ People spend almost as much time on Instagram as they do on Facebook
Snapchat isn’t far behind.

On average, #Instagram users spent 53 minutes per day with the #Android app in June — just five minutes less than #Facebook users spent with their app. #Snapchat users spent 49.5 minutes in the Snap app, on average.

Time spent matters because more time in the app means people probably see more advertisements, which is how all these apps make money. The big war on mobile devices right now is for user attention.

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​​🧠 This MIT student can surf the internet with his mind.

He silently #Google questions and hears the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.

#Future

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⚡️ The 2018 World Cup is expected to add $2.4bn to global ad spend this year, and in the UK it will account for an additional £40m. (Source: Zenith)

INSIGHT
😈 Study calls out ‘dark patterns’ in Facebook and Google that push users towards less privacy: t.me/iXNews/28399

OTHER NEWS
👍 #Facebook makes Stories another Like contest with emoji reactions: t.me/iXNews/28398

💰 #Google invests $22 million in the OS powering Nokia feature phones: t.me/iXNews/28421

☠️ #Twitter says it’s identifying and suspending more bots and spam accounts: prs.pctvix.co/2tCXUf9

👂 #Facebook seeks patent on tech that turns on your smartphone microphone: prs.pctvix.co/2N3gAga

📺 For creators, Instagram’s #IGTV won’t replace YouTube, but it could complement it: t.me/iXNews/28419

📷 #Instagram Lite quietly launches to find a billion more users abroad: t.me/iXNews/28401

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​​💪 Fitness Fanatics Value On-the-Go Entertainment

#Music streaming services and #podcasts are more popular among #Fitness Fanatics. They’re over 20% more likely than average to be consuming both on mobile. This trend holds across the age groups and regions, highlighting a clear link between exercise and audio-based media.

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📵 Mobile Free Mondays!

In a pub in Wales, they lock your phone in a box when you sit & won't let you open it till the bill is paid!

What do you think?
👏 Great idea
😬 Who's gonna Instagram my food?

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STAT
⚡️ 20% of smart-speaker owning Brits use them to boil an egg. Only 7% have used them to buy anything. (Source: Econsultancy)

INSIGHT
💡 Ad Council creates story-driven mobile chat to combat teenage drinking and driving: prs.pctvix.co/2N5v2Em

OTHER NEWS
🤦‍♂️ Maker of popular quiz apps on Facebook exposed personal data of 120 million users: t.me/iXNews/28485

🕵️‍♀️ #Facebook and #Twitter Expand Peek Into Who’s Behind Their Ads: prs.pctvix.co/2NaCttZ

🐉 This flying ‘dragon’ #drone can change shape in midair: t.me/iXNews/28507

🍎 #Apple to reportedly get its OLED displays from #LG to reduce reliance on #Samsung: t.me/iXNews/28503

🤖 #SpaceX is sending an #AI robot ‘crew member’ to join the astronauts on the space station: t.me/iXNews/28495

🏫 #Instagram may soon let college students list their schools: t.me/iXNews/28486

📺 #YouTube kills some creators’ custom-made thumbnail images in latest experiment: t.me/iXNews/28481

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And I'm off to London 👋
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​​⚡️ OUCH!
Instagram Stories is growing about 6 times faster than Snapchat’s whole app!

#Instagram Stories has 400 million daily users, up from 300 million in November and 250 million a year ago. That means #InstagramStories is growing about six times faster than #Snapchat’s whole app, which only added 13 million daily users over the 6 months of Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 to reach 191 million.

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🥚 20% of smart-speaker owning Brits use them to boil an egg

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​​📱 Facebook vs. Snapchat
Which one is the most popular among Millennials?

❗️ Social Media Savvy #Millennials: the top 20% of all Millennial #SocialMedia and communications users (in the U.S., ages 18-35), based on the amount of time they spend per month with social media and communication brands.

Stickiness is how Verto measures user engagement with a particular digital property, by comparing daily users to monthly users. Our analysis of the stickiest social media and communications brands among Social Media Savvy Millennials shows which social media platforms this subset of Millennials use on a regular (even daily) basis. Among Social Media Savvy Millennials, the stickiest social media platforms are still dominated by Facebook-owned properties: Facebook (90% stickiness rating) and Facebook Messenger (61% stickiness rating). And while Snapchat earns a 60% stickiness rating, its user numbers still lag well behind those of Instagram (55% stickiness rating).

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🎧 Do you remember Sony Walkman?

On this day (1 July) in 1979: #Sony Walkman was released!

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❓ Remember it?
😁 Yes! Of course!
😳 No! What the hell is this?

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STAT
⚡️ Initial market reception of the IGTV release is optimistic - Instagram is expected to earn $5.48 billion in U.S. ad revenue in 2018 and Facebook’s share price was up over 2.2% Thursday to nearly $202. (Source: eMarketer)

INSIGHT
🤖 156 slides on the state of #AI and recent progress: prs.pctvix.co/2NiMvJQ

OTHER NEWS
🙄 #WhatsApp copies #Telegram to add one-way ‘broadcast’ mode to group chats: t.me/iXNews/28581

⁉️ #Instagram may let you ask questions in Stories: prs.pctvix.co/2tLizgX

🇪🇺 #Facebook hires Spiegel exec (and sometimes critic) to strengthen relations with publishers in Europe: prs.pctvix.co/2NjYpTo

📺 #YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is live for all U.S. Android users: t.me/iXNews/28560

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EXTRA

📗 #Instagram Creators Handbook - #IGTV (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MGEehC

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🦄 Unicorn are no longer extraordinary
There are over 200 startups valued at or above $1 billion in Silicon Valley

And Bird is the fastest ever to reach a $1 billion valuation.

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