China's Digital Yuan: A Tool for Control and Surveillance

Clubhouse isn’t messing around when it comes to flipping the monetization switch. TikTok translation might make that platform even more global. Yahoo Answers circles the drain. Are NFT prices already dropping? And with the new digital Yuan, would the Chinese government be able to literally turn off the money in your wallet?

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• Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent (The Verge)
• TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push (The Verge)
• Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (The Verge)
• The NFT bubble might be bursting already (CNN Business)
• China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy (WSJ)
• E3 2021 Will Take Place as a Free Virtual Conference, In-Person L.A. Event Targeted for Next Year (Variety)
• Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. (Bloomberg)

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