Amaya Toman OnePlus founder Carl Pei spoke to CNBC this week. In the interview, he spoke, among other things, about his new company called Nothing and wireless headphones, which should be put on sale this June. In his own words, Pei hopes that his company will be as disruptive to the technology industry as Apple once was. In the second part of our summary today, we will talk about a new function on the social network Facebook, which is supposed to slow down the spread of misinformation.
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The founder of OnePlus spoke to CNBC about his new company, he wants to cause a new revolution
The founder of OnePlus, Carl Pei, is slowly but surely starting the business of his new company, which is called Nothing. Its first product – wireless headphones called Ear 1 – should see the light of day during this June. The technical specifications of this future novelty have not yet been published, but Pei does not hide the fact that it should be a very minimalistic product, both in terms of design and functions. In this regard, Pei also said that his company's employees spent a lot of time to bring the product to true perfection, which will be completely in line with the company's philosophy. "We want to bring back the element of human warmth to our products," said Carl Pei in an interview with CNBC, adding that products should not be just a cool piece of electronics. "They are designed by humans and cleverly used by humans," Pei stated. In his own words, he hopes that his new London-based company, Nothing, will shape the technology industry in a similar way to how Apple did in the second half of the 1990s. "Today is like the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s when everyone was making gray boxes," he declared.
Facebook forces you to read an article before you share it
Also, have you ever shared an article on Facebook without reading it properly? Facebook doesn't want these things to happen anymore and will display warnings in these cases in the future. The management of the popular social network announced earlier this week that it will start testing a new feature in the near future to force users to read articles before sharing them on their wall. Roughly 6% of owners of smartphones with the Android operating system will initially be included in the aforementioned testing. A similar function is actually not that new - last June, for example, Twitter started testing it, which started its more massive distribution in September. By introducing this function, Facebook wants to slow down the spread of misinformation and fake news - it often happens that users only read the tempting headline of an article and share it without properly reading its content. Facebook has not yet commented on the introduction of the new function in any detail, nor has it specified in what time frame it should be extended to users around the world.
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