SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM TikTok and Vizio team up for custom smart TV integration — Sorensen Consumer technology research firm Parks Associates finds 60% of U.S. internet households with a connected entertainment device chose smart TVs as their preferred device to consume video in Q1 2022. Samsung, Roku, Amazon, LG, Vizio and Google are the main players controlling the point of consumption and are expected to become even more powerful within the streaming industry over time. ADVERTISEMENT Both consumers and industry stakeholders are focusing on the smart TV as the entertainment centerpiece of the home. Though other platforms such as game consoles are still used to consume video, consumers are moving to the smart TV as their device of choice, and secondarily toward streaming players. ADVERTISEMENT Similarly, advertisers, measurement companies and other industry

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Bitcoin drops below $20,000 over concerns on Fed rate hikes The volatility has come amid uncertainty about the path and magnitude of Fed rate hikes & effect on riskier assets. ADVERTISEMENT Bitcoin extended its drop below $20,000 on Monday as part of a wider cryptocurrency-market retreat, amid concern about the Federal Reserve’s rate-hike path. ADVERTISEMENT The largest token fell as much as 2.3% on Monday to $19,527. That’s on course for a fifth straight day of declines, coming after US stocks fell on Friday following Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at the Jackson Hole conference. The wider crypto market retreated Monday, with the MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 100 Index dropping as much as 2.5%. ADVERTISEMENT “Money is flowing out of risky assets. Crypto followed the sharp adjustment of the U.S. stock market” af

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Excitement builds as NASA’s moon rocket readies for liftoff Tens of thousands of spectators gather in Cape Canaveral for launch of NASA’s Artemis mission to return humans to the moon. ADVERTISEMENT NASA’s most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off on its debut test flight, kicking off the United States space agency’s mission to take humans back to the moon and eventually to Mars. ADVERTISEMENT Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis mission will get underway with the blast off of the unmanned Space Launch System (SLS) rocket at 8:33am (12:33 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday. ADVERTISEMENT Tens of thousands of people, including US Vice President Kamala Harris, are expected to watch the launch, with hotels around Cape Canaveral booked out for the event. ADVERTISEMENT CLICK