| January 4, 2021
It's January 4, 2021. New year, new you? Or the same you with new opportunities? However you see it, we wish you all the best in the coming months!  ⏰ Today's Big Stories... in 30 Seconds Today We Watched, Read, and Listened to (so you don't have to): 412 articles, 8 podcasts, 13 press releases, 587 tweets, and 9 YouTube videos 1. Record Number of WhatsApp Calls on New Year's Eve Facebook says its WhatsApp messaging app recorded the most number of calls in a single day on New Year's Eve. As social distancing has become the way we connect with family and friends, this isn't a huge surprise. 2. Apple Relents, Lets Mac Utility Remain in the App Store A macOS utility called Amphetamine (it keeps your Mac from going into sleep mode), at first banned from the App Store, has now been allowed to stay. This is great news for the developer of the 6-year-old app (which has nothing to do with drug use), for sure. 3. Nier Lets You Skip To the End with a Video Game Cheat Code In 2017's Nier: Automata, you can sacrifice your game save data (after you've played through the title several times) to help other players beat a difficult boss. A newly discovered cheat code, however, lets you skip right to the end and avoid all the tedious game play. The developer has confirmed this is real. 🦑 Go Deeper OxiWear's Shavini Fernando took her health into her own hands after she was diagnosed with Eisenmenger syndrome at 33. Hear more about her and her incredible story in this profile by Michelai Graham. 🎱 By the Numbers That's 2 billion, thank you very much  Data: Business of Apps WhatsApp continues to be the one to beat, and the other Facebook-owned Messenger is close behind. WeChat is next, while Snapchat is only in 5th place. Could it be due to a lack of privacy features?  🔥 Today's Hot Deal
The 15 is Razer's flagship gaming laptop, and the 2020 model sports a mighty 10th Gen Core i7-10875H, and an RTX 2070 for graphics, one of Nvidia's powerful Turing cards with dedicated hardware for ray tracing and DLSS. It's also $400 off. 🤓 Nerd Out "Funny is as funny does." -Rob LeFebvre, Senior News Editor Humor nerds, check it out. Researchers have found the funniest joke ever, the amount of time needed after a tragedy before you can joke about it, and how structure affects your laughter. Science, y'all! (Share on Twitter) 💎 You Know You Want It Hey jacket, play some Smashing Pumpkins.  Image: Levis Smart speakers, smart appliances, and now a smart jacket. The world is getting more tech-enabled as we speak, with this new collab between Levis and Google bringing the ability to take a selfie or check the weather built right into your cool jeans jacket. 🎧 Listen Up What do $550 headphones sound like? Tech pundit Marques Brownlee has a podcast, and this episode focuses on AirPods Max, the potential ban of drone maker DJI in the US, and a chat about Elon Musk's offer of Tesla to Apple. It's compelling stuff: give it a listen. 🗞 Extra! Extra! We've got you covered with the best in daily tech news! See the latest on our site or follow us on Google News. Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here. Have something you'd like us to write about? We're always open for suggestions, too.
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