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Apple Announces the Launch of Lossless Audio for Apple Music

Posted: 17 May 2021 01:46 PM PDT

 


Apple is bringing two major updates to Apple Music, including support for high-quality, lossless audio and for spatial audio through Dolby Atmos. Moreover, the features will be free of cost for all subscribers, including those on family and student plans. Apple is starting off with 20 million lossless audio songs in its catalogue, which it plans to extend to 75 million by te end of this year.

 

Lossless audio will be a subscription-only feature, according to Apple. The company also added that music purchases will not be offered in lossless quality, nor will there be a way to upgrade owned tracks to lossless with the paid iTunes Match service.

 

The latest version of Apple Music is required to run lossless audio. The option can be found in Settings, under Audio Quality. Users will be shown different resolutions for different connections, like cellular, Wi-Fi, or for download, that they can choose from.

 

Lossless audio starts at CD quality, which is 16 bit at 44.1 kHz, and goes up to 24 bit at 48 kHz natively on Apple devices. However, in order to enjoy the highest-quality "High-Resolution Lossless" experience, subscribers will have to rely on an external equipment like a DAC.

 

The Spatial audio and Dolby Atmos audio, on the other hand, are expected to provide more immersive mixes for users listening through the latest AirPods or Beats headphones that come with the H1 or W1 chip.

 

Spatial audio can also be played via the built-in speakers on the latest versions of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac by default. The option can be manually enabled for other headphones by visiting Settings and selecting "Always On" for Audio and set Dolby Atmos.

 

Devices that can support the Spatial Audio feature include all of those launched by Apple within the last few years.

World’s top remittance recipient countries #infographic

Posted: 17 May 2021 08:47 AM PDT

World's top remittance recipient countries

The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard for every single country on the planet and therefore, the global remittance flows have been highly resilient than expected especially for the low to middle-income countries.

The World Bank data reveals that the total remittance is predicted $702 billion in 2020 which was 2.4 percent down as of 2019 ($719 billion). However, out of the total $702 billion, around $540 billion is expected to be received by the low or middle-income countries. In 2019, the low and middle-income countries received a total of $548 billion which is 1.6 percent more than that of 2020.
Despite a lower inflow of remittance, a few countries increased it substantially during the Covid-19 crises. As the infographic shows, the biggest global remittance recipient is India that received $83.1 billion in 2020 which is still 0.2 percent less than the country received in 2019.

Followed by China and Mexico with $59.5 billion and $42.9 billion, respectively. China got 13 percent less than 2019 whereas, Mexico received 9.9 percent more of the remittance inflow as it got in 2019. Other countries that are included in the top ten remittance recipients include Pakistan and Bangladesh as well.

Surprisingly, some developed countries are also seen in the list including Germany and France. But, the remittance flow is not as important to these countries as it is to other underdeveloped or emerging ones.

World's top remittance recipient countries
Infographic by: Statista.com

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Most recent e-commerce trends #infographic

Posted: 17 May 2021 07:56 AM PDT

Most recent e-commerce trends

The first-ever product sold through an online platform, Amazon was a Book in 1995. By now, nearly 2 decades after, the e-commerce industry has evolved beyond our expectations. An exceptionally extensive variety of products regardless of their size and weight are being sold over the internet all around the globe. Due to this fact, the e-commerce industry has made more than $2 trillion through its sales around the world.

E-commerce has revolutionized to meet the needs of common people and it has always been successful in its objective. Moreover, online shopping has saved people from a lot of hassle especially during the Covid-19 restrictions when all the retail outlets have been shut, the online platforms were left as the only source of restocking important stuff.
This industry has been growing constantly and is still expected to grow however, changes in its trends would be seen. Since trends come and go depending on the customer behaviors, current demands and needs, economic conditions, etc., the trends for 2021 are also different from those seen in previous years.

The infographic below shares the important trends of e-commerce in 2021 that everyone must know, check it out.

Most recent e-commerce trends
Infographic by: Oberlo.com

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