5 top news from the world of technology in a week

The long-awaited launch of Spotify, a big Xiaomi presentation, a massive Twitter hack and a couple more interesting events.

Apple explains why you can't glue your MacBook webcam

Users who want to protect themselves from possible surveillance have long taken the habit of covering the laptop's webcam with some kind of film or a special curtain (so does even Mark Zuckerberg). However, such protection can damage your laptop. Anyway, this is true for the MacBook. A corresponding warning about this appeared on the Apple website.

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Xiaomi held a big presentation where it presented the international version of the Mi Band 5

Xiaomi held a large European presentation, which showed 6 devices at once. Almost all of these are global versions of gadgets already on sale in China. These include the new TV stick, the flagship monitor and, of course, the Mi Band 5.

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Apple, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other celebrities hacked on Twitter

On the night of July 16, the Twitter accounts of many large companies and celebrities appeared almost simultaneously records with an offer to transfer them a certain amount in bitcoins in order to get back twice as much money later. Of course, these were scammers who carried out one of the largest hacker attacks.

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Spotify finally arrives in Russia

On July 14, the largest music streaming service Spotify was launched in Russia. He has done a lot network noise, because they waited for him for a very long time. Now they talk about him everywhere, he is praised and called the best solution for online music, and all thanks to him cool playlists.

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Apple is finally replacing fragile Lightning cables with stronger ones

Chinese edition Chongdiantou, which often publishes photos of components for unreleased devices, reports that with the release of iPhone 12, Apple will finally fix the problem of fragile charging cables. A photo of the updated version of the accessory has already appeared on the web.

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