Microsoft topples Apple

Happy Friday! What are you more excited about, the Oscars or the Golden Kitty Awards? Yup, it’s that time again. Very shortly, we will be announcing the nominations for the 2023 Golden Kitty Awards. 

Now on to some news: 

☁️ Google says it’ll stop charging you to transfer data out of Google Cloud.

🤖 Microsoft is planning to auto-launch its Copilot on some Windows devices. 

💰 Microsoft toppled Apple as the world’s largest company – for ten minutes.

Do a quick Google search for “loneliness,” and you’ll find several surveys and articles showing that it’s at an all-time high. According to Pew, one in ten Americans feel isolated from those around them and their communities. 

What’s worse is that loneliness is directly linked to certain serious health conditions, and when moving to another country, the feeling can be exacerbated. That’s why Serge Shagal built Presence. 

“My journey as an immigrant revealed a harsh reality: Although I had a vast online network, there were no people I could meet in real life like I had at home. I had yet to learn how to connect in person with members of my global online communities.”

Presence is a social media app that aims to connect you with like-minded people in real life. 

Once you sign up, it will show you people around you in real-time distance who share your interests, culture, and background. If you’d like to connect on a larger scale, you can join or create local and global communities based on your interests, such as design, development, music, food, etc. 

You can share your profile like a link-in-bio that showcases your personality, skills, and other social links.

Not the most talkative? Presence comes with an AI tool to help formulate introductions to potential new connections. 

While apps like Presence require a significant audience size to work, the app so far has 20,000 members to connect with and is available on both iOS and Android.

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