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We all know Starbucks has an amazing collection of tumblers and cups we always want. Some may have gotten their hands on the limited edition as well. Previously, Starbucks did give out this Summer Reusable Cup for FREE with every purchase of Iced Tea beverages on Tuesdays. For those who didn’t get their hands on this minimalist cup, here’s your chance!
You can now get this Starbucks Summer Reusable Cup for FREE! You will only need to purchase any Grande-sized Frappuccino or iced beverages, and they will be served in these cute summer cups! Furthermore, this promotion starts now, 1st June 2021 until 7th June daily. Now, here’s what you have been waiting for. Is it applicable for delivery? Yes, it is! T&C Apply.
There’s no more time to waste as this promotion ends in just a few days! Although this promotion is available in-store, we encourage you to order via food delivery services as the number of Covid-19 cases daily is still high. You can make your orders from any Starbucks delivery partners including GrabFood. Enjoy your drinks and stay safe!
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Rumours of Twitter planning to introduce a new paid subscription to its platform have been circulating around the web for quite some time. Now it appears that the social media company itself has confirmed this by unintentionally listing the price of its unannounced premium plan on Apple’s App Store.
The listing of the subscription – known as Twitter Blue – was spotted by leakster Jane Manchun Wong, who also first discovered the premium subscription’s existence by reverse engineering the platform’s code. It is revealed that the plan is priced at US$3 (~RM16.50) monthly and would offer paid users with a variety of “premium” features that are not found on free accounts.
According to Wong, Twitter Blue provides users the ability to add bookmarks to tweets, a Collections feature for save and organise posts, and a new “undo tweet” feature. Well, it looks like we’re finally getting the edit feature that we’ve been asking for throughout the years. Unfortunately for us, it’s locked behind a paywall – so back to complaining we go.
Twitter confirms “Twitter Blue”, which costs $2.99 per month by publicly including such In-App Purchase on the App Store
For testing, I’ve become the first paying Twitter Blue customer 😅
Twitter Blue comes with Color Themes as well as custom App Icons
Reader Mode coming soon https://t.co/RxQHwi6apl pic.twitter.com/UC7kfNS9PE
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 27, 2021
There’s also a chance that the US$3 monthly charge is part of a multi-tier subscription model that Twitter is offering to its users. Wong says that those who subscribe to higher-priced tiers could enjoy even more premium services such as clutter-free news reading experience, among other things.
Keep in mind that this info is still unconfirmed at this time, as the platform has yet to officially announce Twitter Blue. That being said, now that the premium subscription’s name and pricing is now listed on App Store, it is very likely that we’ll hear from Twitter regarding this sometime soon.
Twitter is working on “Undo Send” timer for tweets pic.twitter.com/nS0kuijPK0
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 5, 2021
On a related note, Facebook had previously hinted at introducing a premium-based subscription plan of its own in order to “cope” with Apple’s anti-tracking policy. Now that Twitter is seemingly spearheading paid plans to social media, it wouldn’t be surprising for Mark Zuckerberg’s social media platform to also follow suit soon after.
So, would you pay US$3 per month in order to fix your tweets before posting and for other “premium” features by Twitter? And would you also opt to become a paid Facebook user when it introduces its own plan in the future? Let us know in the comments below.
(Source: Jane Manchun Wong [1] [2] [3] | Apple App Store)
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Twitter revealed that its image-cropping algorithm has a notable bias against black individuals and men. The company looked into the issue after users complained that the machine learning-based algorithm was excluding black people’s faces from image previews, Reuters said.
According to Twitter’s analysis, the algorithm favoured women by 8% from demographic parity, and white people by 4%. Demographic parity essentially means that there is no bias, and both groups compared have an equal chance of being highlighted by the algorithm.
The company also investigated whether its algorithm sexually objectified women by cropping images to focus on body parts aside from faces. But ultimately, the social media firm found no evidence of this.
I’m excited to share that we’re rolling this out to everyone today on iOS and Android. You’ll now be able to view single, standard aspect ratio images uncropped in your timeline. Tweet authors will be able to also see their image as it will appear, before they Tweet it. https://t.co/vwJ2WZQMSk
— Dantley Davis (@dantley) May 5, 2021
Twitter explained that it began using a “saliency algorithm” in 2018 to crop pictures, aiming to standardise the size of images and allow people to see more tweets at a glance. Powered by machine learning, the algorithm estimated what a user might want to see first within an image.
Abandoning that approach, the platform recently shifted to displaying standard aspect ratio photos in full, without the algorithm-backed cropping. Users are also shown a true preview of the image before they click to post.
In the end, the company concluded, “not everything on Twitter is a good candidate for an algorithm, and in this case, how to crop an image is a decision best made by people.”
(Source: Reuters, Twitter.)
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Instagram has allowed users on desktop to peruse their feed via its official website for a long while now. Activities such as posting images to the platform, however, are still exclusive to its app on mobile devices. But according to a recent discovery by developer and leakster Alessandro Paluzzi, this limitation could change in the near future.
The leakster shared a set of images on Twitter, demonstrating the allegedly upcoming upload-from-desktop ability. Paluzzi explained that he discovered the feature while doing some reverse engineering on Instagram’s website.
Upon selecting “New Post”, users will be prompted to a pop-up where they can either drag-and-drop an image or click the “browse from computer” button to select a specific photo from their computer. After uploading, they’ll be greeted to several familiar Instagram menus such as selecting the desired aspect ratio (square, portrait or landscape) and then the different types of filters they wish to apply, as well as the option to manually edit their photos. Lastly, users will arrive at a screen where they can enter a caption, tag people, add location and so on.
#Instagram is working on the ability to create posts from the desktop website 👀 pic.twitter.com/pATuOHiTGE
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) May 14, 2021
Enabling users to upload their images from PC (or Macs) would greatly benefit photographers who rely on digital or mirrorless cameras, and especially those who edit their work via software such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. The discovery of Instagram’s supposedly upcoming feature is somewhat timely as Twitter had also updated its platform to allow high resolution photos to be uploaded and viewed by its users. In that regard, it is not known if images uploaded from desktop on Instagram’s website will retain their original resolution or end up being compressed.
As for when this new feature will be made available, Paluzzi noted that it might take a while as it is still currently being tested internally.
(Source: Alessandro Paluzzi [Twitter])
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Twitter joins other social media platforms in rolling out a payment feature for content creators and others. As the name implies, Tip Jar will enable people to support Twitter personalities with tips.
The account owner / recipient will have to enable the feature first – after which, a Tip Jar icon will appear next to the Follow button on their profile page. Those who wish to tip can then tap on the icon and select a payment service or platform that the account has enabled.
Once a selection has been made, users will be brought off Twitter to the chosen app, where they can enter an amount and finalise payment. Available services include Bandcamp, Cash App, Patreon, PayPal and Venmo. Twitter said it takes no cut, but noted that payment service availability and features will vary by region. Android users can also send tips within Spaces.
At the moment, everyone using Twitter in English can send tips to those who have enabled the feature – expansion to other languages is planned. But for the time being, only a limited group of people across the world who use Twitter in English can add the feature to their profile and receive money. These people include creators, journalists, experts and nonprofits, but Twitter said it’ll widen that circle shortly.
Twitter said that Tip Jar is a “first step” in its efforts to set up ways for people to give and receive money on the platform. Social media platforms are banking heavily on attracting creators – Clubhouse launched its first monetisation feature last month, and Facebook has its Stars feature, with more monetisation opportunities announced and on the way.
(Source: Twitter. Images: Twitter.)
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Last September, the popular cashback reward service ShopBack disclosed that its backend system has suffered a data breach that affected users in several markets including Malaysia. Not only that, the leaked data then made its way online a few months later and forced the company to implement several drastic measures include a system-wide forced logout and password reset for certain users.
If you are concerned and wondering whether your ShopBack account is part of the leak, there is now a way to verify your status. This is thanks to the latest update that has been implemented into the popular online tool Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) which now includes more than 20 million ShopBack accounts.
The brainchild of Australian security expert Troy Hunt, HIBP has previously covered plenty of data leaks over the years including Jobstreet and Facebook. As for the ShopBack data breach, all one need to do is insert the e-mail address that they have used to register for ShopBack into HIBP’s search engine to find out about the status of their ShopBack.
Regardless of whether your account is part of the leak or not according to the HIBP’s search result, we do recommend you to change your ShopBack password anyway. It is always better to be safe than sorry.
(Source: HIBP / Twitter. Thanks for the tips, @KevinNgTK!)
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Starting today, Twitter users on both Android and iOS will now be allowed to tweet and views images at 4K resolution on the app. The social network’s allowance for higher resolution images comes a little more than a month, after it began testing the upload option on mobile devices.
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Prior to this, only the web version of Twitter was able to support 4K images, with the mobile versions of the app only capable of supporting half the resolution. That said, not every mobile device is capable of capturing images at 4K resolutions or greater; as a rule fo thumb most cameras with a sensor greater than 10MP are capable of the feat. Even more so for the latest iPhone 12 series, since all the sensors in their main camera modules are rated at 12MP.
Time to Tweet those high res pics –– the option to upload and view 4K images on Android and iOS is now available for everyone.
To start uploading and viewing images in 4K, update your high-quality image preferences in “Data usage” settings. https://t.co/XDnWOji3nx
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) April 21, 2021
In any case, if you want to upload images at 4K resolution on your Android or iOS device, you’re going to need enter the Twitter preferences Tab and tick off a few criteria within the Data Usage section. Basically, you’ll need to select if you want to allow 4K resolution photos to be uploaded via your mobile data or only when connected via Wi-Fi.
(Source: TechRadar, The Verge)
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Facebook today revealed that it has rolled out a new feature which would allow its users to preserve their published posts to platforms outside of its ecosystem such as Google Docs, WordPress or Blogger. This greatly expands the existing data transfer tool for photos and videos that was introduced by the social media company last year.
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The new feature is part of a cross-company data-sharing initiative that launched in 2018, simply known as the Data Transfer Project. Its aim is to have users freely move their data across various online services and platforms seamlessly without restriction. Among those participating in this initiative includes Apple, Google, Microsoft and Twitter – all of which also have introduced their own data-export tools.
Concurrently, as noted by The Verge, the introduction of this new feature would also help bring Facebook in line with two recent regulation laws, the California’s Consumer Privacy Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. “We hope this tool empowers people to take control of their data and encourages the creation of updated rules around data portability by lawmakers,” said company Chief Privacy Officer Michel Protti. “We look forward to working with more experts and companies to expand the scope of what you can move between platforms.”
This new addition to Facebook’s information transfer tool is now available to all users across the globe. Those who wish to utilise the feature may find it in the “Your Facebook Information” page, under the platform’s Settings page. From there, you can choose which type of content you wish to transfer, and to which platform outside of Facebook that you want it delivered to.
Keep in mind that the choices of transfer destinations will differ depending on what type of content you wish to move. Also, it’s worth noting that any data ported to other platforms will not include elements such as comments or data from other users, as they belong to their respective owners.
(Source: Facebook [1] [2])
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Frequent analyst of Apple products Ming-Chi Kuo said last month that the AirPods 3 will only enter production in Q3 of 2021. But it looks like that doesn’t stop counterfeits of the thing to break into the market early. Some have already ended up in the hands of consumers, too.
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A couple of TikTok videos of the fake Apple AirPods 3 have already shown up on Twitter. And they look pretty much exactly as the images that have shown up online two months or so back. One of the videos even shows it being connected to an iPhone. It is even recognised as the “AirPods 4th generation”, bizarrely enough.
AirPods 3 counterfeit products pic.twitter.com/2uLzqzWPVi
— DuanRui (@duanrui1205) April 8, 2021
On one hand, it’s probably not all that surprising to find fake products in the wild. Even with unreleased stuff like the AirPods 3, making counterfeits are possible as long as images of them are floating about. But on the other, it is indeed strange than an iPhone recognises it as something that doesn’t officially exist.
AirPods 3 counterfeit products. pic.twitter.com/QGGtGti3pB
— DuanRui (@duanrui1205) April 8, 2021
At any rate, if you’re in the market for a new pair of TWS buds, definitely beware of counterfeits. And especially if you’re looking for the Apple AirPods 3 specifically, since they’re not actually even made yet, let alone out in the market.
(Source: Twitter [1], [2] via MacRumors)
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