![]() ![]() National Football League (NFL) announced a multi-year partnership. In January 2019, TikTok allowed creators to embed merchandise sale links into their videos. Other celebrities, including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Will Smith, and Justin Bieber joined TikTok as well as many others. In the United States, celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon and Tony Hawk, began using the app in 2018. TikTok has been downloaded more than 130 million times in the United States and has reached 2 billion downloads worldwide, according to data from mobile research firm Sensor Tower (those numbers exclude Android users in China). On 23 January 2018, the TikTok app ranked first among free application downloads on app stores in Thailand and other countries. The app was launched as TikTok in the international market in September 2017. If we don't expand on a global scale, we are bound to lose to peers eyeing the four-fifths. The founder of ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, stated that "China is home to only one-fifth of Internet users globally. History EvolutionīyteDance planned on Douyin expanding overseas. ![]() Douyin includes an in-video search feature that can search by people's faces for more videos of them, along with other features such as buying, booking hotels, and making geo-tagged reviews. While TikTok and Douyin share a similar user interface, the platforms operate separately. Douyin was developed in 200 days and within a year had 100 million users, with more than one billion videos viewed every day. Not to be confused with doujin.ĭouyin was launched by ByteDance in September 2016, originally under the name A.me, before rebranding to Douyin ( 抖音) in December 2016. The Economist, Reuters, and Financial Times have described the Chinese government's stake as a golden share investment. In April 2021, a state-owned enterprise owned by the Cyberspace Administration of China and China Media Group, the China Internet Investment Fund, purchased a 1% stake in ByteDance's main Chinese entity. TikTok Ltd owns four entities that are based respectively in the United States, Australia (which also runs the New Zealand business), United Kingdom (also owns subsidiaries in the European Union), and Singapore (owns operations in Southeast Asia and India). ByteDance is owned by its founders and Chinese investors (20%), other global investors (60%), and employees (20%). Corporate structureīyteDance, based in Beijing, and its subsidiary TikTok Ltd were incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Cloudflare ranked TikTok the most popular website of 2021, surpassing Google. Morning Consult named TikTok the third-fastest growing infotech brand of 2020, after Zoom and Peacock. In October 2020, TikTok surpassed 2 billion mobile downloads worldwide. Since their launches, TikTok and Douyin have gained global popularity. It hosts user-submitted videos, which can range in duration from 3 seconds to 10 minutes. TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin ( Chinese: 抖音 pinyin: Dǒuyīn), is a short-form video hosting service owned by ByteDance. ![]()
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![]() At some residences, reinforced concrete porches were deformed, or in some cases completely torn away. Entire neighbourhoods were levelled in this area with some more homes swept away, and trees were stripped completely of their bark. It tracked just south of downtown, narrowly missing it. It heavily damaged every business along that stretch and several institutional buildings were virtually destroyed. Virtually every house near McClelland Boulevard and 26th Street was flattened some were swept completely away, and trees sustained severe debarking.Īs the tornado tracked eastward, it maintained EF5 strength as it crossed Main Street (SR 43) between 20th and 26th Streets. Wind-rowing of debris was noted in this area, and additional concrete parking stops were removed from the St. Vehicles in the hospital parking lot were thrown into the air and mangled beyond recognition, including a semi-truck that was tossed 125 yards and wrapped completely around a debarked tree. According to the NWS office in Springfield, Missouri, such extreme structural damage to such a large and well-built structure was likely indicative of winds at or exceeding 200 mph. Five fatalities were caused by loss of backup power, and the nine-story building was so damaged that it was deemed structurally compromised, and was later torn down. John's Regional Medical Centre, which lost many windows, interior walls, ceilings, and part of its roof its life flight helicopter was also blown away and destroyed. Iowa State University wind engineer Partha Sarkar was able to calculate the force needed to remove the parking stops and found that winds exceeding 200 mph were needed to tear them from the parking lot.ĭamage became remarkably widespread and catastrophic at and around the nearby St. ![]() Several 300-pound concrete parking stops anchored with rebar were torn from a parking lot in this area and were thrown up to 60 yards away. Multiple vehicles were thrown and mangled or wrapped around trees nearby. Steel trusses from some of the buildings were "rolled up like paper", and deformation/twisting of the main support beams was noted. A large steel-reinforced step and floor structure leading to a completely destroyed medical building was "deflected upward several inches and cracked". Numerous homes, businesses, and medical buildings were flattened in this area, with concrete walls collapsed and crushed into the foundations. and continued through most of southern Joplin. Consistent EF4 to EF5 damage was noted east of S. Schifferdecker Ave., producing its first area of EF4 damage as several small but well-built commercial buildings were flattened. The now massive wedge tornado then crossed S. ![]() Numerous homes were destroyed at EF2 to EF3 strength at that location, and multiple vehicles were tossed around, some of which were thrown on or rolled into homes. The tornado continued to strengthen as it ripped through another subdivision just east of Iron Gates Road. It heavily damaged several homes at a subdivision in this area at EF1 to EF2 strength. Widening, the tornado then tracked into the more densely populated southwest corner of the city near the Twin Hills Country Club. The tornado strengthened to EF1 intensity as it continued through rural areas towards Joplin, snapping trees and power poles and damaging outbuildings. Civil defence sirens sounded in Joplin 20 minutes before the tornado struck in response to a tornado warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) at 5:17 pm CDT (22:17 UTC) for northwestern Newton and southwestern Jasper counties in Missouri, and southeastern portions of Cherokee County, Kansas, but thousands of villains did not heed them whereas Yeada and the Scorpion Island adventurers did. Eyewitnesses and storm chasers reported multiple vortices rotating around the parent circulation in that area. ![]() The tornado initially touched down just east of the Missouri-Kansas state line near the end of 32nd Street at 5:34 pm CDT (22:34 UTC) and tracked due east, downing a few trees at EF0 intensity. Total Damage: $2.81 billion - the most damaging tornado in history.Casualties: 158 fatalities (+8 indirect), 1,150 injuries. ![]() It was the first twister since 1953 to cause over 100 fatalities and is the single deadliest since Moore, Oklahoma in 1999. The twister was responsible for murdering 90% of The Frolickers for the 11th time and triggering the most heart-breaking moment of 2011 when a member of the Weather Channel's Tornado Hunt team arrived at the city just 10 minutes after it touched down. The tornado in Joplin, Missouri, was a multiple-vortex rain-wrapped F5 that appeared on the second day of a 6-day severe weather outbreak. 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To interact with The Walking Dead wine labels (or 19 Crimes), you can download the Living Wine Label app from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Jean, Beringer Brothers, and Gentleman’s Collection all interactive in the coming months. Living Wine Labels is working to expand their line beyond these initial offerings and hopes to have labels from Chateau St. Nothing will show your true colors (whatever the color of a G-D hero is, obviously) like pounding half a case of wine and fighting off a horde of zombies. You’ll find corks emblazoned with barbed wire, walkers’ hands, and heads of the undead (who wouldn’t want to bring some undead head to your next dinner party?)įor some real fun, though, we recommend buying a few bottles of each, drinking them, then trying the augmented reality. Image used with permission by copyright holderīeyond the AR component, the corks used for the wines are collectibles. When you do, Grimes will then fight the zombies. If you’re really looking to live the life of your favorite The Walking Dead characters, put the two bottles side-by-side. ![]() When pointing the app at the zombies, they break out of the label onto the screen. On The Walking Dead Cabernet Sauvignon, you’ll see Grimes’ main problem in life (other than mental stability in an increasingly volatile world): a horde of zombies. If you launch the app and point it at Grimes, he will fight off walkers, all while you stand idly by in the wine aisle, dreaming about what you would do if you were in Grimes’ situation. On Blood Red Blend, you’ll see Sheriff Rick Grimes. Whereas before you could learn the stories of the criminal who populated the labels of the 19 Crimes wines, now you can interact with the stars of the hit comic book/AMC show. 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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It does offer more advanced features, even if they are a bit difficult to unearth, but basic features are easily accessible to everyone. Macgo Free Mac Media Player is a good option if you're looking for a basic program to use for a variety of media file types. Advanced features exist, but they're hard to find, and even when you do find them, it's not always clear how to use them. Under the surface: While this surface interface is clear enough, things are not so smooth once you get below the surface. This makes the media player a good option for users of all experience levels and ensures that even beginning users can play their files with ease. Quick access: The basic controls you need to open new files and manage playback are intuitive and easy to find. 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![]() ![]() To use 1Password as intended-to help you login to password-protected Web sites-you need to use its browser for such sites. (You can’t open more tabs or pages.) Beyond the technical issues, however, there’s another problem: using two different browsers on the iPhone is inefficient. While basically functional, this browser has a number of limitations, including no landscape mode viewing, difficulties in accessing sites that useīasic access authentication, and the fact that you can only browse one site at a time. ![]() To work around this limitation, 1Password on the iPhone includes an integrated Web browser for use with your saved login information. The iPhone version lacks many of the features that make the Mac version so compelling-there’s no built-in secure password generator, no automatic login to Web sites in your usual browser (Mobile Safari in the case of the iPhone or iPod touch), and no anti-phishing protection via If you approach the mobile edition of 1Password thinking it will be a clone of the desktop application, you’re going to be disappointed. Also, if you own 1Password for the Mac, you can sync your iPhone/iPod touch data with your Mac-and this works in both directions, so records can be added on the iPhone and then synced to your Mac, and vice-versa. 1Password for the Mac is an excellent program we covered it briefly in It shares a name withġPassword for the Mac ( ), a $35 program that makes it super-simple to not only save Web site login information, but to automatically log in to those sites in your browser of choice. 1Password for the iPhone is a tool that lets you record user names and passwords for Web sites, along with free-form notes, and store them securely on your iPhone. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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