📈 TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time
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TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time. TikTok’s users now spend more time each month watching content than YouTube users, according to a report from app analytics firm App Annie. In the US, ByteDance’s app first overtook YouTube in August last year, and as of June 2021 its users watched over 24 hours of content per month, compared with 22 hours and 40 minutes on Google’s video platform. (Jon Porter via The Verge)
This is the perfect ransomware victim, according to cybercriminals. Researchers have explored what the perfect victim looks like to today's ransomware groups. On Monday, KELA published a report on listings made by ransomware operators in the underground, including access requests -- the way to gain an initial foothold into a target system -- revealing that many want to buy a way into US companies with a minimum revenue of over $100 million. (Charlie Osborne via ZDNet)
A generation of american men give up on college: 'I just feel lost'. Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels. At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to a… (Douglas Belkin via Wall Street Journal)
3D Printing Helps Ultracold Quantum Experiments Go Small. To find some of the coldest objects in the universe, you don't have to go much further than your local university. There, a physicist may be using laser light and magnets to cool atoms below a stunning –450 Fahrenheit. (Karmela Padavic-Callaghan via WIRED)
Sequoia Heritage, Stripe and others invest $200M in African fintech Wave at $1.7B valuation. Francophone Africa has its first unicorn, and if you’ve been following tech on the continent, you will be very unsurprised to hear that it’s coming from the world of fintech. (Tage Kene-Okafor via TechCrunch)
Bitcoin Faces Biggest Test as El Salvador Makes It Legal Tender. Country buys 400 Bitcoins worth $20 million ahead of roll-out Poll shows Salvadorans remain skeptical about the plan Bitcoin is undergoing the biggest test in its 12-year history as El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt it as legal tender… (Michael D McDonald via Bloomberg)
American Spies Are Fighting the Last War, Again. Twenty years ago, al-Qaeda hijackers carried out the worst-ever terrorist attack on American soil, killing nearly 3,000 innocents, terrifying the nation, and forever changing the course of history. (Amy Zegart via The Atlantic)
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