Here’s the best tech news of the week in America.
1. Elon Musk “grabs the feathers” of the little blue bird
He is one of the stars of the social network, he has more than 80 million followers and is the richest man in the world. Yes: we’re talking about Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX who now has a seat on Twitter’s board of directors.
It was announced this week that Musk acquired 9.2% of the messaging platform, which guaranteed him that position at the “small table” of the little blue bird network.
Musk himself promised that he would make “significant improvements” to the microblogging platform founded in 2006 by Jack Dorsey in the coming months.
The news of Musk’s arrival was given by the social network’s CEO, Parag Agrawal, who assured that he was “excited to share the good news”.
And it seems that “significant improvements” are already underway. Do you want to know the first? Read the point below.
2. Oops… I didn’t mean to tweet this. I better edit it
Voila! Twitter confirmed earlier this week that it plans to add the option to edit posts already posted, though it will begin testing that feature in Twitter Blue before it reaches all users.
Precisely, Elon Musk, after buying 9.2% of the company’s shares and promising “significant improvements”, conducted a survey on the platform to ask his followers if they would like the opportunity to post (tweets) once to edit. of which more than 70% said yes.
But later on Twitter they said something like “Hey! We’ve already thought about that.”
Welcome Elon and his crazy but always effective ideas to Twitter!
3. Amazon wants to continue “stealing space” from SpaceX
Aiming to be a giant in “terrestrial” retail, but also one of the telecommunications in space, where its great rival is Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Amazon announced the contractual agreement of 83 space launches with three different providers to support its ambitious internet. to help roll out satellite network.
The company, led by Andy Jassy, said it has reached an agreement with Arianespace, United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to conduct the launches over a five-year period.
These launches should put most of the 3,236 satellites Amazon plans to deploy as part of its Kuiper project to deliver internet broadband around the world.
This is real internet for everyone from space!
4. Canada wants to “stop” Facebook and Google from the media
This old controversy again! This battle between technology platforms and the media is never ending!
This time, it was the government of Canada that presented a bill for Google and Facebook to pay the media for the use of their content.
The legislative project is inspired by a similar law passed by Australia last year.
But the government wants to step up its efforts on this initiative, as it determines that if the agreements are not reasonable, the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will be given the option to impose the compensation paid by Internet companies.
Good information on the internet is worth it and you have to pay what is fair.
5. A Bitcoin “Council” in Miami
This week, the Bitcoin 2022 conference was held in Miami, a cryptocurrency “council” expected to be the largest in the history of these assets, in which El Salvador president Nayib Buquele was unable to attend due to “unforeseen circumstances.” ” due to public order in your country.
El Salvador became the first country in the world to convert bitcoin into legal tender in 2021.
Organizers expected the attendance of more than 35,000 attendees, nearly triple the 12,000 who attended the 2021 edition, which was held in Miami Beach in June.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) urged El Salvador to “limit the scope of the Bitcoin law by eliminating its legal tender status” and also expressed “concern” over an announced bond issuance in this cryptocurrency. .
But even Bukele’s intention to participate in these kinds of events indicates that he will not pay much attention to the IMF.
6. US, “on top” of Salvadoran bitcoin
And speaking of the quixotic Salvadoran adventure with bitcoin, the United States is already very concerned about it, and two congressmen presented a project to analyze the risks it poses to the North American nation’s financial system.
It is additional legislation to the “Act on the Responsibility of Cryptocurrencies in El Salvador” proposed by three senators last February, according to a statement by congressmen Norma Torres and Rick Crawford, the promoters.
The text orders the US State Department to “analyze the risks to cybersecurity, economic stability and democracy” that bitcoin poses to El Salvador and to “design a plan to mitigate the risks to the US financial system”.
The IMF, the US… who cares about this bold idea from Bukele?
7. A huge “Fortnite” collection for Ukraine!
It is one of the most popular games today and can also be used for joint initiatives.
This is “Fortnite” and Epic Games, its creator, has managed to raise $144 million in humanitarian aid for Ukraine, which will be distributed among UN agencies and the World Food Programme.
Between March 20 and April 3, Epic Games and Xbox said they would donate all of their “Fortnite” proceeds to support Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
Luis Alejandro Amaya E.
