The newest Beats member shows the direction of Apple for its two line of headphones. Studio Buds are cheaper and more compatible than AirPods. It can be charged via the universal USB C connection instead of the proprietary Lightning charging port. It also has its own Android app for those outside the iOS ecosystem. If AirPods are intended to complement and enhance the experience of using iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Beats products are aimed at a larger, more diverse market. Apple wants to turn AirPods into a more premium product when it introduces the AirPods Max hooded headset, equipped with the Spatial Audio feature to increase the difference. Beats Studio Buds allows Android users to see the exact amount of battery on each headset as well as the included charging case. The headset can also be controlled using the Google Assistant. The accessory’s minimalist design also marks a change for Apple. According to testing by Bloomberg, the compact design of the headset makes it comfortable to wear for a long time. It has a noise reduction mode, which is not too effective when listening on a noisy street, but also supports the user experience. The headset battery lasts 8 hours on a single charge, but only when noise cancellation is not activated. Beats Studio Buds for ordering now and starting to ship from June 24. The headset has three colors red, black and white, priced at 3.44 million. Du Lam (According to Bloomberg)

On June 13, Tesla CEO tweeted that he will accept Bitcoin electric vehicle payments again. However, this only happens when Bitcoin miners can prove that about 50% of the energy they use is clean energy. According to Reuters, Bitcoin price increased 5% to 37,360.63 USD at 1:10 am on June 14 (Vietnam time) after Mr. Musk’s tweet. Musk also said that Tesla will sell about 10% of its Bitcoin holdings to show that Bitcoin can be easily liquidated. During the first quarter of the year, Tesla sold about $272 million in “virtual assets,” which reduced its operating loss by $101 million. Tesla CEO comments about cryptocurrencies often cause price fluctuations. As a result, he was criticized by CEO Magda Wierzycka of asset management company Sygnia as a “market manipulator” and that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should investigate. In February, Tesla revealed in an SEC filing that it had purchased $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and would accept Bitcoin as payment for its products. However, then the electric car company paused due to concerns about the method of mining virtual currency, which requires huge electricity consumption, affecting climate change. “We are concerned about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels to mine and trade Bitcoin, especially coal, which is the worst emitter,” Musk tweeted in May. Du Lam (According to Reuters)

A model of the BeiDou Satellite Navigation System is displayed at the 12th China International Aviation and Space Exhibition in Zhuhai city, Guangdong province. (Photo: AP) Citing Yang Jun, deputy director of the China Satellite Navigation Office at a conference, Xinhua News Agency said that the country’s satellite navigation industry is worth more than 400 billion yuan in 2020, growing at a steady rate 20% year. China officially commissioned the Beidou 3 (BDS) system last July at a commemorative event attended by President Xi Jinping. As Beijing continues to invest in becoming a space power, Beidou is expected to be able to rival the GPS of the US and the Galileo of Europe. Launched in 1994, China’s Beidou project arose from the military’s need for its own satellite navigation system, replacing the US Department of Defense’s GPS. In particular, in 1996, a serious incident occurred when the Chinese military lost track of two missiles in the Taiwan Strait, possibly due to sudden GPS interruption. Since then, Beijing has invested heavily in Beidou to ensure an independent and stable satellite navigation system to guide missiles and bombs. The first BeiDou satellites were launched in 2000 and are now in their third generation, and are also commercially available. China actively promotes the use of BDS in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in the Belt and Road Initiative countries. Beidou-related products are exported to more than 120 countries and regions, serving about 100 million users globally, according to Xinhua. BeiDou features are integrated in many popular smartphones. As a two-way communication system, Bac Dau allows compatible devices to send data to satellites, exchange text messages between two users, and track location in case of emergencies. Domestically, more than 7 million personal vehicles, 36,300 delivery and postal vehicles, 1,400 state-owned ships and 350 aircraft are using BDS. However, BDS also has its shortcomings. Last month, a truck driver in Hubei committed suicide after he was fined 2,000 yuan (US$305) because the vehicle’s BDS system was found to be disconnected during a routine inspection. Other drivers also filed complaints on the Hubei government website for similar disconnection problems. Du Lam (According to SCMP)

Customers visit a Huawei store in Shenzhen. (Photo: Reuters) Using its own mobile operating system means Huawei is no longer dependent on Google Android. The US has banned Google from providing technical support for new Huawei phone models and blocked access to the Google Mobile Services developer suite. It is not clear if the Chinese company will introduce a new smartphone at the same time as Harmony, or if Harmony will be updated on models sold on the market. Harmony OS can only partially mitigate the impact of US sanctions on Huawei’s mobile division. The US ban in 2019 also barred Huawei from accessing important US-origin technology, hindering its ability to design its own chips and buy components from outside manufacturers. Once the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, Huawei currently ranked 6th globally with a market share of 4% in the first quarter. The administration of former US President Donald Trump accused the Chinese telecommunications giant of threatening national security. This week, Huawei founder Nham Chinh Phi urged employees to “dare to lead the world in software”, moving into an area where the US cannot influence. The company needs to attract more software experts from abroad for this effort. Du Lam (According to Reuters)

Google has partnered with Western Union and Wise to enable this feature. According to Josh Woodward, Director of Product Management at Google, the company is starting to launch cross-border payments with Singapore and India, with the goal of expanding globally by the end of the year. “As we’ve done with some Google products, we’ll test, learn, iterate, and scale,” he said. Under the agreement, Western Union handles cross-border payments on Google in more than 200 countries, while Wise supports more than 80 countries. When Google Pay users in the US want to send money to someone in India and Singapore, they’ll be notified of the exact amount the recipient received. Inside the app, users can choose a provider – Wise or Western Union – and the time it takes for the money to reach the recipient. Currently, the Google Pay money transfer feature only allows US users to send money to users in India and Singapore, but not vice versa. In addition, the feature is also new to individual money transfers. Mr. Woodward shared that they chose India and Singapore first because of their importance in the remittance market. According to the World Bank, India was the largest recipient of money in the world in 2019 with more than 80 billion USD. Meanwhile, the US is the largest depositor. Du Lam (According to TechCrunch)

Today, chips are in everything from game consoles and toothbrushes to washing machines and alarm clocks. However, the world is facing a serious chip crisis, showing no signs of stopping. Glenn O’Donnell, vice president of research at consulting firm Forrester, believes the situation will last until 2023 due to high demand and continued supply stress. He forecast personal computer demand will decline slightly next year, while data centers will buy more chips. According to him, combined with the growth in cloud computing and mining, the demand for chips is going to explode. According to Patrick Armstrong, IT director of Plurimi Investment Managers, the chip crisis could last 18 months. There are too many products that require chips such as cars, phones, IoT… All connected to the Internet. The car industry is affected more than any other sector. Earlier this month, the world’s largest chipmaker TSMC said it could catch up with car demand in June. But Mr. Armstrong said that was too ambitious. Ford, BMW, and Volkswagen all stressed they had production bottlenecks and couldn’t buy enough chips needed to build cars. Research firm Gartner predicts the chip crisis will continue until 2021, not to mention chip prices also increase. Analyst Alan Priestley said the situation could improve for some sectors in the next six months, but there could also be a “chain effect” into 2022. The semiconductor industry is doing everything to increase productivity but need time. In fact, Intel announced to spend $ 20 billion for two new chip factories in Arizona, USA. According to Mr. Priestley, it will take two to three years for these plants to operate but it will meet future demand. Reinhard Ploss, CEO of German chip maker Infineon, said last week that it “clearly takes time” until supply and demand balance. According to Wenzhe Zhao, Credit Suisse’s director of global economics and strategy, the recent chip crisis has encouraged inventory stockpiling in the supply chain, leading to a widening supply-demand gap. Not much can be done to solve the current situation, he said, except to adjust orders, production schedules and prices. Du Lam (According to CNBC)

TikTok wants to encroach on e-commerce. (Image: Bloomberg) TikTok wants to repeat the success of Douyin – the version of TikTok exclusively for the Chinese market. Only in the first year, Douyin earned 26 billion USD in e-commerce transactions. According to Bloomberg, TikTok has started a partnership with a number of brands so that they directly sell products to millions of users right on the app. It is not clear when TikTok will officially announce the feature. A representative of Hype, one of the brands TikTok partnered with, confirmed the experiment. According to images provided to Bloomberg, Hype’s booth in TikTok displayed a range of products with photos and selling prices. ByteDance – TikTok’s parent company – is actively exploring the Chinese e-commerce market in the hope of writing another glorious medal in the company’s history right before the IPO. The company aims to process more than $ 185 billion of global e-commerce transactions by 2022 based on the reach of TikTok and Douyin. Unlike Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance’s app is well known globally. Founder Zhang Yi Ming wants to use it as a stepping stone to the online shopping game. ByteDance remains a slowdown in China’s “social commerce” market, where celebrities sell products to followers. In the email, TikTok said it is experimenting and learning, and constantly discovering many new ways to add value. Currently, the major social networking companies are scrambling for online retail market share, a market expected to generate $ 5 trillion in sales this year. In May 2020, Facebook introduced a new tool to improve the shopping experience on Facebook and Instagram. Pinterest also jumped into the e-commerce market when it brought buyers to the seller’s website. For its part, TikTok has challenged the online shopping market through promotional campaigns with Walmart and Shopify. Businesses often mark products on TikTok content, with a link that leads buyers to their own website, but all of it takes place within the TikTok application. TikTok wants to lock users down more tightly by allowing brands like Hype to run booths on the platform, take orders and interact directly with buyers. TikTok hopes to sell more ads to sellers, increase traffic and eat commissions. In December 2020, Zhang told TikTok employees that e-commerce, when combined with short videos and livestreams, offers even greater opportunities outside of China. The company has quietly built up a team of engineers in Singapore to develop its e-commerce business. It is very likely that TikTok will successfully re-establish with videos suggested by artificial intelligence when it comes to shopping online. Du Lam (According to Bloomberg)

Johannes Caspar, the head of the Hamburg municipal privacy agency, issued a three-month emergency ban. Accordingly, Facebook is prohibited from further data collection. He also asked the European Union data panel to take action and make a ruling in the bloc. WhatsApp’s new provision of data collection is invalid because they are not transparent, inconsistent, and too broad. In a statement on May 11, Mr. Caspar confirmed that the ban aimed at protecting the rights and freedoms of millions of WhatsApp users in Germany must agree to Facebook’s conditions. The German ban hits the heart of Facebook’s business model and advertising strategy. Previously, the country’s antitrust office also criticized the company for its habit of collecting data about users doing online and associated with Facebook profiles. The huge amount of information allows for targeted advertising and brings great revenue to social networks. However, WhatsApp called Mr Caspar’s statements “false” and said the ban could not prevent the new term from being deployed. In the announcement, WhatsApp said that the German authorities’ actions were based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the new term. Facebook faces a wave of protests around the globe because of WhatsApp’s new terms, requiring users to agree by May 15. Mr. Caspar is concerned that Facebook could wrongly handle the data and it is important to prevent data misuse, affecting the September election. Du Lam (According to Bloomberg)

CEO Tim Cook speaks at WWDC 2018 (Image: Getty Images) This is the first time Apple publish this data. It is a sign of “defective apple” becoming more transparent in the process of approving and rejecting iPhone applications under pressure from many countries. Thanks to the application review system, comparing with the App Store regulatory list, the company can keep iPhone users safe from fraud, malware or poor experience. Apple also published some notable figures for 2020. Accordingly, the manufacturer Iphone rejected nearly 1 million applications submitted for the first time; deny nearly 1 million application updates. 48,000 applications removed due to use of “hidden or unreported features”; 150,000 applications removed for spam or other application copying; 215,000 apps removed for collecting too much user data or violating privacy; 95,000 applications were removed due to phishing, usually they change to other types of applications such as gambling, porn. 470,000 accounts disabled from the developer program for phishing. Additionally, last month, Apple declined 3.2 million app downloads using an enterprise license. This is how large businesses often use to circumvent the App Store law to install internal apps on employees’ iPhones. Currently, the lawsuit between Apple and Epic Games is taking place. Game maker Fortnite denounces the App Store as a “closed garden”, hurting developers, and Apple discriminates against many. Epic Games also confirmed that Apple’s process is not perfect, sometimes approving malware. Apple employees themselves have admitted their process is not good enough to prevent scams. At the trial, Apple said, combining 500 automated reviewers and testers to review nearly 5 million applications per year, from 2017 to 2019 (updates included), the rate from declined from 33% to 36%. The flaws are too small for the size of the App Store. Apple sees the App Store as a fundamental, irreplaceable part of its business. This is the only way for users to install software on the iPhone. Apple’s attorney argued that if users let users download apps from outside the App Store the way Android is doing, they would be at risk of security. Apple doesn’t want to be Android. Du Lam (According to CNBC)

In a letter to Facebook CEO on May 10, the attorneys wrote: “Using social networks can harm the health and spirit of children, who are not equipped to overcome the challenges of owning. social network account. Furthermore, Facebook has a history of failing to protect the well-being of children on its platform ”. A Facebook spokesperson said the company has just researched Instagram ideas for children and is committed to not showing any ads in the version for children under 13. Facebook agrees that every version of Instagram must prioritize safety and privacy first. The social network consults with experts in the areas of child development, child safety and mental health. On Twitter, Massachusetts attorney Maura Healey criticized Instagram for children as “a shameful attempt to exploit and profit from vulnerable people”. The letter citing articles from 2019 indicates that the Messenger Kids app, intended for 6-12 year olds, “contains serious design flaws, allowing children to overcome restrictions on online interaction and join groups. Chat with strangers, not approved by parents ”. Last month, the Ad-Free Childhood Campaign also urged Zuckerberg not to create a child version because it would put children at “great risk.” Du Lam (Reuters)

Talking to CNBC, 6 people said they refused to be interviewed, offered a job or left TikTok as soon as they learned of the company’s 996 culture, whether through online review or direct experience. Culture 996 is very popular with Chinese business. It comes from the requirement that the work begins at 9am to 9pm, 6 days / week, or 72 hours / week. Meanwhile, the number of working hours in the UK and the US is about 40 hours / week. In the UK, working in excess of 48 hours per week on average is considered illegal. “I stopped discussing immediately” An employee invited to act as a communicator for TikTok said 996 culture is really a concern. When researching TikTok on the Glassdoor recruiting site, the most common downside is work imbalance – insane working hours and life. This person “stopped talking immediately when he knew that they were not very flexible about the location and working policy”. A few weeks later, the person was offered a similar role at ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, but declined. Another senior artificial intelligence researcher revealed that he did not accept TikTok’s invitation even when the employer announced the salary of more than £ 100,000 / year (3.25 billion / year), not including bonuses. The expert also went to Glassdoor to look for TikTok reviews. For this person, the balance between public – private is very important. Of course, online reviews are not the only factor to refuse to go with TikTok. While Glassdoor is recognized as a useful platform when searching for a company’s internal culture, it’s not perfect, and reviews are for reference only. People can post many different reviews. However, 4 former TikTok employees told CNBC that they have had a really negative experience here. A former employee said TikTok is the most “poisonous” office I have ever tasted. “Everyone there is completely miserable and life is too short. In the first year before the epidemic swept, I counted only four or five weekends without work… I know TikTok is having trouble with hiring but in the end they don’t care. People to them are just numbers ”. Another former employee shared that, on average, he had to work 15 hours a day at TikTok. “For them, that is normal. Everyone complained but still accepted, perhaps because of good pirated wages “. This person also dislikes the company’s very opaque culture because he doesn’t get an answer when asking a question about his or her workplace. “Stay away, stay away, stay away” Two other former employees of TikTok concur with the above point. One person even sent CNBC a review of the company on Glassdoor titled: “Stay away, stay away, stay away”. In the 1-star review, there are 10 reasons listed why people should refuse to join TikTok and look for another company. This person criticized the “unbalanced public – private life” to “toxic groups” and “terrible management”. TikTok is expanding its workforce globally to deal with the pressure of becoming too popular. The company seeks content management, technical or policy staff. To improve the working environment, TikTok recruited Michal Osman from Facebook to be the European Cultural Director in January. However, countless people left before. Currently, TikTok employees in Europe are more than 3,000 people, up from 1,600 people in September 2020. Many people used to work at Facebook and Google. A TikTok employee said not to go through 996 culture at the company. In addition, they have rules such as prohibiting meeting on Wednesday lunchtime or not meeting on Friday afternoon. Like any other development startup, employees work hard and sometimes have to work overtime when urgent, said a TikTok spokesperson. Song TikTok has no 996 policy. In the UK, consulting firm Great Place to Work ranks TikTok as the 30th best place to work based on employee experience and anonymous feedback. Du Lam (According to CNBC)

Doctor Web researchers discovered 10 seemingly harmless apps on AppGallery – Huawei’s official app market – that contain codes that connect to malicious C&C servers to take over additional configuration and components. These additional components bypass the user, automatically signing up for the paid service. To cover the phone’s owner, they demanded access to the notification and then interfered with the SMS verification code sent by the paid service. According to experts, the malicious code will subscribe to up to 5 such services, although developers can change the limit at any time. The list of infected applications range from virtual keyboards, photography, launchers, texting to stickers, games. Most have the same developer, Shanxi Kuailaipai Network Technology. In total, 10 apps were downloaded by more than 538,000 Huawei users. Doctor Web reported to Huawei and the company removing them from AppGallery. However, downloaders still have to manually delete the device. Below is a list of software that need to be removed immediately: Super Keyboard, Happy Color, Fun Color, New 2021 Keyboard, Camera MX – Photo Video Camera, BeautyPlus Camera, Color RollingIcon, Funney Meme Emoji, Happy Tapping, All-in-One Messenger. Experts say that modules downloaded from the malicious AppGallery also appear in other apps on Google Play. Once activated, they contact the remote server to receive the configuration file, which contains the task list, the paid service website, and the JavaScript mimics the user’s actions. The Joker malware was born in 2017, continuously detected in apps on Google Play Store. In October 2019, Kaspersky malware analyst Tatyana Shishkova tweeted about more than 70 malicious applications on the Google market. According to Google, they have removed about 1,700 Joker malicious apps since 2017. Du Lam (According to BleepingComputer)