Drake’s ‘Scorpion’ becomes first album to hit one billion streams in one week

Drake isn’t done smashing records with his new album. The Canadian rapper just hit over one billion streams for his latest album Scorpion. The figure takes into account all music listeners from around the world using different streaming platforms. Again, Drake has beaten out Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys for the title, the latter’s album was played 700 million times in the same timeframe.

Source: Forbes

Report claims Twitter crackdown resulted in 70 million suspended account in past two months

Twitter is cleaning house and according to a report in The Washington Post this has resulted in the suspension of 70 million accounts in the past couple of months. It’s part of the social network’s plan to lessen the flow of disinformation as well as the malicious activity that has been plaguing Twitter. This rate of suspension is reportedly twice that of the company’s October 2017 suspension rate. This change could result in the decline in users for the second quarter of the year. But a Twitter executive told publication that a lot of these accounts rarely tweeted so the move won’t dramatically affect Twitter’s active user count.

Twitter, alongside Facebook, have been heavily criticized and demanded by users and the general public to put a stop to the trolls, spam, and spread of disinformation on its platform. Last month, Twitter said in a blog post that it’s been improving its safety policies and its “systems identified and challenged more than 9.9 million potentially spammy or automated accounts per week.”

Are we getting new iPhone colors?

You might have been seeing this around but KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently reported that Apple might be releasing new color variants for the upcoming iPhone X-like devices. The five new colors include red, orange, blue, white, and grey. It will be available for the “entry-level” 6.1-inch LCD-toting iPhones. These are rumoured to be priced at around US$700 (around CA$915). There is also going to supposedly be a higher-end 6.5-inch OLED iPhone model that will be around US$1,000 (around CA$1,300) and this dual SIM device will come in black, white, and a new gold. There might also be a smaller 5.8-inch iPhone X coming.

There’s a possibility that Kuo is referring to Space Grey and Silver when he talks about “grey” and “white” but there are still four other new colors to choose from. The red might also be a PRODUCT(RED) phone but Apple usually doesn’t release this when new iPhones are launched. These new changes, Kuo reports, might result in significant growth for the iPhone with the $700 variant accounting for 55 percent of sales.

Source: 9to5Mac

Google Inbox gets Apple iPhone X notch support

Google has finally added compatibility with Apple iPhone X’s notch for its Inbox app. The new update comes in at 144MB and is version 1.3.180617. Google’s Gmail had support for iPhone X back in December 2017. This might’ve come late but better late than never, right? As GSMArena points out, it must be noted but Apple has started to make it mandatory for iOS apps to support the iPhone X display starting this month.