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STAT
⚡️ VPN users are more likely to be young, male, and educated to university level. All of these demographic distinctions fit the profile of early adopters. (Source: Global Web Index)

INSIGHT
✋️ ‘Addictive’ #Facebook may harm children, claim insiders: prs.pctvix.co/2Nr5ulh

OTHER NEWS
🎆 500 #Intel drones to replace fireworks above Travis Air Force base for Fourth of July: t.me/iXNews/28758

🎾 #Snapchat’s new lens lets you play tennis against Serena Williams:
prs.pctvix.co/2NosmSo

🤖 DeepMind’s #AI agents exceed ‘human-level’ gameplay in Quake III: t.me/iXNews/28766

🇪🇺 Wikipedia goes dark in Spanish, Italian ahead of key EU vote on copyright: t.me/iXNews/28764

🕵️‍♂️ #Google tries to calm controversy over app developers having access to your #Gmail: t.me/iXNews/28760

💵 #Netflix tests 'Ultra' tier that could add a higher price option: prs.pctvix.co/2tWDZYE

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STAT
⚡️ According to a January 2018 survey by Fluent LLC, many US internet users (55%) own some form of smart-home technology. The most common device is a smart TV (38%), followed by lighting (17%), thermostats (16%) and security systems (14%). Kitchen appliances had the lowest level of ownership (7%) among those mentioned. (Source: eMarketer)

INSIGHT
🎬 The Guardian finds less polished video works better on #Instagram Stories: prs.pctvix.co/2u5ZmpS

OTHER NEWS
👨‍⚖️ #Facebook Called Itself a 'Publisher' in Court After Repeatedly Rejecting the Label in Public: prs.pctvix.co/2z8a5po

🇪🇺 EU sends controversial internet copyright reforms back to the drawing board: t.me/iXNews/28800

🤖 #AI spots legal problems with tech T&Cs in #GDPR research project: t.me/iXNews/28786

🇨🇳 Huawei slams FCC proposal to bar funds for Chinese telecom gear: t.me/iXNews/28799

🚫 Avengers' Thanos sparks biggest ban in Reddit history: prs.pctvix.co/2u6yNkt

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STAT
⚡️ A survey conducted among more than 40,000 people shows #SocialMedia use – defined as those who visit online social networking sites – is highest in Jordan (75%) and Lebanon (72%), the only to surpass 70% adoption. The next-highest rates of social media adoption are in the US, Australia, and South Korea, each at 69%. These are the surveyed countries:
🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇪🇸🇸🇪🇬🇧🇷🇺🇦🇺🇨🇳🇮🇳🇮🇩🇯🇵🇵🇭🇰🇷🇻🇳🇮🇱🇯🇴🇱🇧🇹🇳🇹🇷🇬🇭🇰🇪🇳🇬🇸🇳🇿🇦🇹🇿🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇲🇽🇵🇪🇻🇪
(Source: Pew Research Center)


INSIGHT
💰 How to Get Rich (without getting lucky) - A Twitter thread by Naval Ravikant: prs.pctvix.co/2u9HBWD

OTHER NEWS
💳 Crypto visa card company Monaco just spent millions to buy Crypto-dot-com: t.me/iXNews/28847

📉 #Samsung’s record profit run ends after reportedly slow Galaxy S9 sales: t.me/iXNews/28846

🐦 Twitterific loses push notifications and live-updated tweets ahead of #Twitter’s third-party API purge: t.me/iXNews/28842

⚽️ #Facebook acquires £200m Premier League broadcast rights for south-east Asia: prs.pctvix.co/2tWNOWA

🤳 Facebook patents hint at 'skin smoothing' and karaoke features for live video: prs.pctvix.co/2tUMxiT

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STAT
⚡️ More than 1.3 billion users of Google-owned YouTube regularly watch music videos, making it the biggest music service in the world. However, artists receive only 67 cents per user annually in royalties. (Source: The Guardian)


INSIGHT
⛓ Will Blockchain Diminish Facebook’s Advertising Dominance? prs.pctvix.co/2u5lEZJ

OTHER NEWS
😍 #Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential: t.me/iXNews/28934

📈 Facebook moves on from data scandal as stock reaches all-time high: prs.pctvix.co/2u41YFs

🦂 Drake’s Scorpion pulls in over 1 billion streams in its first week: t.me/iXNews/28933

😬 Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million: t.me/iXNews/28937

⚽️ Cristiano Ronaldo in talks over US$10m Facebook series: prs.pctvix.co/2u3mzcO

🏆 Technology has changed my World Cup watching for the better: t.me/iXNews/28927

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👎 I think they're terrible!
😐 I don't watch football

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STAT
⚡️ The ‘Gareth Southgate’ effect? M&S’ suit sales have been boosted so far for the 2018 World Cup with sales of waistcoats up by 35% YOY. (Source: Marks and Spencer)


INSIGHT
📌 #Pinterest's rudimentary consultancy gives retailers advice on in-store merchandising: prs.pctvix.co/2NJIVs3


OTHER NEWS
📈 Olio, the app that lets you share unwanted food items with your neighbours, picks up £6M Series A: t.me/iXNews/29108

📱 HTC’s blockchain-powered Exodus #smartphone is a risky bet that needs to pay off: t.me/iXNews/29106

👊 #YouTube is fighting fake news with $25M to promote journalism and more context in search results: t.me/iXNews/29001

🤝 #Snapchat moves beyond traditional publishing brands with latest partnerships: prs.pctvix.co/2NJzzN5

👻 Snapchat and #Amazon will team up on in-app shopping: prs.pctvix.co/2NIPag6

🕵️‍♀️ House Republicans demand answers from Alphabet following Gmail privacy scandal: t.me/iXNews/28988

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STAT
⚡️ Snapchat usage and engagement has gone down 15-40% since the release of Instagram Stories. Top creators used to get around 330,000 views per day on Snapchat in 2015 up until June 2016. Nowadays, they only get around 205,000 to 250,000 views per day. (Source: TechCrunch)


INSIGHT
🎾 How Wimbledon is using #AI to enhance the fan experience: prs.pctvix.co/2mdR3EY


OTHER NEWS
💻 Google’s #Chrome desktop browser is about to receive a major facelift: prs.pctvix.co/2mahE5D

🌱 This sun-chasing robot looks after the plant on its head: t.me/iXNews/29209

🔥 #Google introduces machine learning ad tools and brands are hot for them:

👁 #Xbox One is getting Dolby Vision support: t.me/iXNews/29203

💤 Casper opens a storefront for $25 naps: t.me/iXNews/29191

🌃 #Facebook testing #AR ads in the News Feed and new tool to help brands create video ads: prs.pctvix.co/2mdjS4a

🔎 Dirt Protocol raises $3M for a decentralized, #blockchain-based approach to information vetting: t.me/iXNews/29189
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STAT
⚡️ PC sales are growing for the first time in six years. The PC market grew in the second quarter of 2018, with an increase of 2.7-1.4 percent. (Source: Gartner, IDC)


INSIGHT
🤖 Robot cognition requires machines that both think and feel: prs.pctvix.co/2Ne5Fzo


OTHER NEWS
👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 #Pinterest's new group boards are the most social feature on the platform: prs.pctvix.co/2N9ZQDm

💻 Apple’s new MacBook Pros have the latest Intel processors and quieter keyboards: prs.pctvix.co/2NcifiB

❌ Chrome now uses more RAM because of Spectre security fixes: t.me/iXNews/29228

🔦 #Twitter is testing Promoted Trend Spotlight ads: prs.pctvix.co/2NeI2af

#️⃣ #Twitter released a hashtag-triggered emoji for the 2018 MLB all-star game: prs.pctvix.co/2Nfrvmn

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STAT
⚡️ VR-related Google search volumes were 44% lower in December 2017 than they were in December 2016. In contrast, interest in AR appears to be on the up as AR users in the US will reach 51.2 million this year - up 36% on 2017. (Source: Econsultancy)


INSIGHT
👨‍🏫 The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley: prs.pctvix.co/2LVCGnW


OTHER NEWS
🌎 #GoogleMaps now depicts the Earth as a globe: https://t.me/iXNews/30868

🤷‍♂️ iPhone supplier TSMC shut down factories after virus attack: t.me/iXNews/30855

📺 All the key news on Apple’s upcoming streaming TV platform: t.me/iXNews/30853

📈 Boston-Area Startups Are On Pace To Overtake NYC Venture Totals: prs.pctvix.co/2OixAiv

EXTRA: Alex Jones & InfoWars
🍏 Apple removes Alex Jones podcasts from iTunes for hate speech: t.me/iXNews/30881

❌ Facebook removes Alex Jones pages, citing repeated hate speech violations: t.me/iXNews/30879

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STAT
⚡️ Only about 2% of the people with devices that use Amazon’s Alexa intelligent assistant — mostly Amazon’s own Echo line of speakers — have made a purchase with their voices so far in 2018 (Source: The Information)
More on this later on today's #BigThought


INSIGHT
🎼 The definitive timeline of #Spotify’s critic-defying journey to rule music: prs.pctvix.co/2KE3H9Q


OTHER NEWS
🥧 #Android 9 Pie is available for Google Pixel phones, but some key features won’t ship until the fall: t.me/iXNews/30913

👩‍⚕️ #Google plans to roll out digital wellness features in Pie but #Apple’s already got ’em: t.me/iXNews/30933

🚖 India’s Uber rival Ola is headed Europe with ride-hailing launch in the UK: t.me/iXNews/30952

💳 #Facebook wants financial data from America’s largest banks: t.me/iXNews/30919 (but they're denying it: prs.pctvix.co/2KzFxNG)

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STAT
⚡️ 9 out of 10 social media users do a music-related activity on their social media apps (Source: Billboard)


INSIGHT
❓ What do Reddit’s new media partnerships mean for publishers - and its future? prs.pctvix.co/2M3BLlw


OTHER NEWS
🥉 #Facebook's app is now the third-most popular browser in the U.S: prs.pctvix.co/2nmmKwl

🤳 ‘Stories’ was #Instagram’s smartest move yet: t.me/iXNews/31044

#️⃣ Slack is raising $400M+ with a post-money valuation of $7B or more: t.me/iXNews/31034

🚘 Elon Musks explains why taking Tesla private is ‘the best path forward’: t.me/iXNews/31015

EXTRA: Snap's Q2 Report
📉 #Snapchat shrinks by 3M users to 188M despite Q2 earnings beat: t.me/iXNews/31019

👑 Snapchat gets $250M investment from Saudi prince for 2.3%: t.me/iXNews/31021

😖 Why Snapchat is shrinking? t.me/iXNews/31030

🤯 Hacker Leaked Snapchat Source Code On GitHub: prs.pctvix.co/2nlc40Q
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STAT
⚡️ The average U.S. adult now spends more than 6 hours a day watching video, an 11 minute increase from Q4 2017. (Source: Nielsen)


INSIGHT
👶 How Alexa could be better at responding to toddlers: prs.pctvix.co/2Ok92p4


OTHER NEWS
😶 Snapchat monitors Infowars as Alex Jones promotes “Censorship” gag AR filter: t.me/iXNews/31102

🤖 This robot uses AI to find Waldo, thereby ruining Where’s Waldo: t.me/iXNews/31103

🚕 New York City Council votes to cap licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft: t.me/iXNews/31110

🍻 Heineken is still worried about Snapchat’s age-gating policies: prs.pctvix.co/2KDtT4F

🌽 Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think: t.me/iXNews/31113

🐠 Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data: t.me/iXNews/31122 | 📺 Watch Live: prs.pctvix.co/2KGArzz

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STAT
⚡️ The use of #ad and #sponsored posts on Instagram grew by 44% in the first six months of this year, compared to the same time frame in 2017. (Source: Buzzoole via TheDrum)


INSIGHT
🎙 Reddit CTO On Fake News, QAnon, Harassment, And Running 'The Front Page Of The Internet': prs.pctvix.co/2On1e63

OTHER NEWS
💸 Facebook now deletes posts that financially endanger/trick people: t.me/iXNews/31198

👫 Emoji couples might come in 55 gender and skin tone combinations next year: t.me/iXNews/31209

🤳 Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebs: t.me/iXNews/31145

🤮 New Panasonic device sucks up your shoe smells, if you have five hours: t.me/iXNews/31144

EXTRA: Samsung
📱 Samsung Galaxy Note 9: t.me/iXNews/31156

🔈 Galaxy Home speaker with Bixby smart assistant: t.me/iXNews/31169

⌚️ New Galaxy Watch: t.me/iXNews/31163

✏️ New and more powerful S-Pen: t.me/iXNews/31157

🎶 Spotify as its go-to music partner: t.me/iXNews/31175
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STAT
⚡️ Mobile search is still Google’s kingpin. For the second-quarter of 2018, Alphabet’s total revenue was $32.7 billion with mobile search leading the way. That’s up 26% from the year prior. (Source: Alphabet)


INSIGHT
🤖 What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Oxexkt

OTHER NEWS
🚫 Amazon to be told to ditch 'guaranteed next-day delivery' claim: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OxWoTG

🤳 With news-feed user growth slowing, Facebook revs its pitch for Instagram Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31313

😂 Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it: https://t.me/iXNews/31304

👻 Snapchat expands Shoppable AR to its top creators: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OAr8DF

😬 The DNC’s lawyers subpoena WikiLeaks with a tweet: https://t.me/iXNews/31315

😮 The Turkish lira is so volatile it’s making Bitcoin look tame by comparison: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KKWEw5
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STAT
⚡️ In a recent survey of 595 VR and AR professionals, 24% reported strong sales in the enterprise market but only 18% showed strong sales in the consumer market. When asked about the barriers to entry, 52% said a lack of content is the biggest barrier, although this is down from 62% the previous year. (Source: VR Intelligence & SuperData)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MneaLU

OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook joins forces with LaLiga 🇪🇸 to livestream matches in the Indian 🇮🇳 subcontinent: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mk2Joj

👻 How IGN is using Fortnite and Marvel to grow on Snapchat Discover: https://t.me/iXNews/31386

📉 Ethereum’s falling price splits the crypto community: https://t.me/iXNews/31380

🤔 The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control: https://t.me/iXNews/31376

🇸🇦 In the Tesla drama, Saudi Arabia reminds Silicon Valley of its weight: https://t.me/iXNews/31372

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STAT
⚡️ Nearly half of over 65s in Great Britain are now shopping online. The percentage of over 65s using the internet to shop has trebled since 2008, rising from just 16% to 48% in 2018. (Source: Office for National Statistics)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGAGl6

OTHER NEWS
🗣 New Apple patent hints that Siri could offer multiuser support: https://t.me/iXNews/31406

😑 Apple's Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September: https://t.me/iXNews/31410

5️⃣ Sprint and LG will release a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019: https://t.me/iXNews/31433

👩‍⚕️ Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health: https://t.me/iXNews/31434

💰 Square Cash expands bitcoin support to all 50 US states: https://t.me/iXNews/31446

👹 Instagram published a note about the recent jump in the number of hacked accounts: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGDizq

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STAT
⚡️ The influencer marketing space is currently valued at £3.9bn globally. 54% of that is being spent on A-list celebrities. Meanwhile millennials remain the most receptive generational audience, followed by Gen Z. (Source: Zine)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2wcX4WQ

OTHER NEWS
🗞 Google releases a searchable database of US political ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31535

🤦‍♀️ Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job: https://t.me/iXNews/31539

💸 Uber reportedly lost $891 million in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows: https://t.me/iXNews/31540

🤔 Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries: https://t.me/iXNews/31549

💰 Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund: https://t.me/iXNews/31560

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STAT
⚡️ 60% of 16-24-year-olds claim to notice ads more if they deal with important issues, compared to 55% of 35-44-year-olds and 37% of those aged 45 and older. (Source: Channel 4)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MXnDXv

OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook secures deal to stream Champions League matches in Latin America: https://t.me/iXNews/31612

🏈 Adidas kicks off Twitter live streaming partnership with high school football: https://prs.pctvix.co/2waxfGR

💰 Coinbase now supports buying and selling Ethereum Classic: https://t.me/iXNews/31647

🤔 As demand for Instagram Stories ads heats up, some early adopters turn to Facebook Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31643

🚘 Update: New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup: https://t.me/iXNews/31634

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STAT
⚡️ New research suggests that six second linear television ads can generate good levels of engagement. In this research, despite six second ads accounting for just 3%, they actually drove 6% of attention. Interestingly, six second ads generated more attention per second than 15 or 30 second ads. They also yielded higher attention per second among all age groups, with adults aged 35 and over paying slightly better attention to six second ads than younger consumers. (Source: Advertising Research Foundation (ARF))


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mym4Cj

OTHER NEWS
⏯ Netflix sets the record straight over plans to introduce ads: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MIgQ6O

🎰 Apple cracks down on gambling apps in China: https://t.me/iXNews/31756

🐦 Jack Dorsey admits Twitter hasn’t ‘figured out’ approach to fake news: https://t.me/iXNews/31739

🗣 A university is outfitting living spaces with thousands of Echo Dots: https://t.me/iXNews/31735

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 LinkedIn set to launch redesigned Groups platform by end of August: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nTpxgK

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STAT
⚡️ People Spent 85 Billion Hours In WhatsApp In The Past 3 Months (Versus 31 Billion In Facebook).
85 billion hours is a lot of time. It's 3.5 billion days, or over nine million years -- 9,582,650 years, to be exact. And it's 11.425 hours for every human being on the planet. (Source: Apptopia)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2woglF9

OTHER NEWS
🏛 Why Facebook needs a Supreme Court for content moderation: https://t.me/iXNews/31828

📺 Lifestyle publisher Stylist quits IGTV in favor of Apple News: https://t.me/iXNews/31818

🍕 Google created a fake pizza brand to test out creative strategies for YouTube ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31811

🎮 Amazon is ending its 20 percent Prime discount on video game preorders: https://t.me/iXNews/31803

🇻🇪 Venezuela ties its currency to a state-run cryptocoin: https://t.me/iXNews/31799

🚗 Tesla challenger Lucid Motors also in talks with Saudi Arabia for reported $1 billion funding: https://t.me/iXNews/31788

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STAT
⚡️ Research involving 109,780 internet users, aged 16-64 in 42 countries, shows that 46% use social media to stay abreast of current affairs. Out of this group, 29% are people aged 24-35, while 22% are 35-44. (Source: GWI)


INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJN5Te

OTHER NEWS
📸 Instagram is testing Recommended Posts in the feed: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MLexzW

💸 Netflix is testing a payment feature to bypass Apple’s App Store fees: https://t.me/iXNews/31885

🗣 Snapchat Users Can Activate Face Effects Using Voice Commands: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MPpYa9

🤔 There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, Senator Ron Wyden says: https://t.me/iXNews/31929

⚖️ Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJnv0N

🎮 Excitement brewing: Snap about to launch a game platform for Snapchat: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MGAmRb

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