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And happy holidays to you and yours from all of us at Technext.
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From Apple to developers with love, good riddance.
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After developers randomly received emails from Apple threatening to remove their apps from the store because, they haven't been updated in a while, Apple in a statement is standing by the decision saying their time on the App Store is now up.
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Bent on decluttering the App Store, Apple also said that people weren't downloading the apps anyway.
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Below are the tech stories and news you need to know to start your day, carefully curated by Technext.
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Summary of the news
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- Experts on Technext's panel said that the hype around NFTs could die down
- Snapchat has unveiled a selfie drone called Pixy
- Apple told developers whose apps were deleted from the app store that they'd deserved it
- Telegram now lets users send cryptocurrency through the TON blockchain spinoff
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“NFTs are more than art” | Experts discuss NFT trading at Technext Spaces session
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Speakers in the Spaces session include Efosa Ighodaro, the founder of Hashgreed, the first African NFT marketplace; Emmanuel Babalola (Babz), the CEO of Bundle; Tunde Anjorin, the Editor-in-chief of Panaramic Comics and Alayonimi, a web3 enthusiast.
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The speakers agreed that the NFT space thrived on the hype around it, but that people willing to invest need to understand what the NFT industry is about before they invest or trade. Yet, they claimed, at some point, the hype was going to die down.
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See the edited excerpt from the conversation below.
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"To avoid being a victim of scams, you have to do your own research. Also, be mindful of where you drop your wallet, please." - Emmanuel Babalola
"Let your mind come with the fundamentals, look for durability, look for structure, understand the trends to avoid being scammed." - Efosa Ighodaro.
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Snap unveils a flying camera called Pixy
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On Thursday, it unveiled a flying one. Called Pixy, the drone camera can help people take selfies without the aid of a selfie stick. Users hold the pocket-size camera in their palm and select a flight mode via a dial on the device’s body. The gadget then flies for a minute, taking photos and videos that it downloads to the user’s private Snapchat drive before landing back in the user’s palm.
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“It gives you a totally new perspective, actually allows you to have fun and go hang out with your family and create videos all together,” Evan Spiegel, Snap’s chief executive, said in an interview.
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Pixy is Snap’s first hardware product since Spectacles, which were glasses with embedded cameras and augmented-reality features. Spectacles debuted to hours-long lines in 2016 but ultimately underperformed. In 2021, Snap released a new version of Spectacles that let people see augmented-reality filters overlaid on the physical world.
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Apple to developers: if we deleted your old app, it deserved it
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The notice, released on Friday evening, reads in part:
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As part of the App Store Improvements process, developers of apps that have not been updated within the last three years and fail to meet a minimal download threshold — meaning the app has not been downloaded at all or extremely few times during a rolling 12 month period — receive an email notifying them that their app has been identified for possible removal from the App Store.
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The Verge says in its report that those emails are not new — last week, developers like Robert Kabwe and Emilia Lazer-Walker reported getting them, and expressed distress that they had 30 days to update their apps, or they’d be removed from the store. Other developers shared similar experiences on Twitter, saying that the policy, and the amount of time they were given to make changes, were unfair to indie developers.
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Telegram now lets users send cryptocurrency through TON blockchain spinoff
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Telegram now lets users send Toncoin, the cryptocurrency built off of Telegram’s abandoned blockchain effort, directly from chats within the messaging app (via Protocol). In a post on Twitter, TON (The Open Network), announced that Telegram now supports Toncoin transactions with no fees attached, The Verge reports.
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TON included a short video showing how crypto transactions work on the platform. To get started, you’ll have to add Telegram’s Wallet bot to your attachment menu, which allows you to “purchase cryptocurrency by bank card, exchange, and transfer to other wallets.”
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When you’re ready to send crypto, you can pull up the Wallet from your attachment menu while in a chat, enter the amount of Toncoin you want to send, confirm all the details, and then hit “Send.” Your recipient will receive the Toncoin through the chat.
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