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While speaking with investors, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that the number of active Apple devices in the world has reached 1.8 billion units. In 2021, their number increased by 150 million.

Active Apple devices include iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

In January last year, the company reported 1.65 billion devices, and a year earlier – about 1.5 billion. In 2016, Cook reported that the number of iPhones in the world exceeded the one billion mark.

Devices are rated as active by being connected to Apple services within the last 90 days.

Along with this, the company reported record sales in the first quarter of 2022, which includes the New Year holidays. Apple received $123.9 billion in revenue for a profit of $2.1 per share. Analysts predicted – $ 118.66 billion / $ 1.89. The company also announced a record profit of $34.6 billion.

What amazes me the most is that they achieved record sales with the chip shortage that was recently announced. Of course, 1.8 billion devices is an unfathomable number. And Apple plans only to increase it. Well, let’s see if they can do it.

Sources: https://habr.com/ru/news/t/648437/

Internet Shutdown always brings big losses to countries. In 2021, there were a lot of shutdowns in various countries. As usual, African countries bear the biggest losses because of this, since the shutdown lasted the longest in them, for example, in Ethiopia it lasted as much as 8,864 hours.

Myanmar ranks first in terms of losses for 2021. Just imagine, it cost $2.8 billion and the shutdown lasted 12,238 hours. What is interesting and unusual from this year’s statistics is that India ranks 3rd in terms of losing money, in previous years the country did not appear in the top 10, however, now it is in 3rd place due to the huge number of people deprived of the Internet. Talking about Europe, I think we can only mention Belarus with its long shutdown, which was introduced due to protests. TopVPN10 said that Twitter was the most blocked social media platform in 2021 that saw 10 shutdowns for a total of 12,379 hours. Facebook and Meta’s other offerings namely WhatsApp and Instagram were among the other two platforms most impacted in the year, the website highlighted.

After all, we all understand that shutdowns always bring a lot of costs and troubles to people. In today’s world, it’s hard to imagine your day without the Internet, and if such a shutdown lasts for a long time, people can generally lose their jobs, lose themselves, and so on.

Taiwanese company ADATA, showed the XPG gaming mouse with built-in 1TB storage. On this SSD with a speed of 985 MB/s, gamers will be able to store their games. The mouse is wired, connected to a computer via USB-C. In theory, using it as an external drive with installed games is quite possible.

Another question: in what user scenarios is this even necessary? ADATA has not yet given a clear answer to it.
Although the product was only announced and there is no exact information on it yet, i can already share my opinion that this gadget makes no sense. I can suppose that it is going to be heavier and way much more expensive than other gaming mouses. I assume that carrying a flash drive is much easier than plugging and unplugging your mouse time to time.

An 84-year-old US resident decided to help her grandchildren to collect money for their own homes and invested her savings in cryptocurrency. However, due to the hacker attack, she lost all her funds.

“I followed the security measures Coinbase advised, including two-factor protection. I thought the account was completely secure. The theft put me in a very difficult situation. It happened so quickly and easily”– said the victim of the scammers.

The victim reported this to the police and the FBI, and representatives of Coinbase in San Francisco closed her account during the investigation. Earlier this year, around 6,000 Coinbase users were hit by scams and phishing attacks. Investigating cryptocurrency theft crimes continues to be very difficult and expensive for plaintiffs. At the same time, there is no guarantee that their costs for lawyers and investigations of such cases will ever pay off.

Therefore, although the cryptocurrency is considered safe, since you are “impossible” to track, you must use trusted exchanges, because thieves will always find how to steal your data.

Sources: https://azart.nv.ua/news/krazha-kriptovalyuty-50202424.html
https://azart.nv.ua/news/skolko-bitkoinov-uzhe-dobyto-50201814.html