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Apple does not expect to meet revenue guidance for March quarter due to constrained iPhone supply and low demand due to store closures amid coronavirus crisis — As the public health response to COVID-19 continues, our thoughts remain with the communities and individuals most deeply affected by the disease …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: iPhone SE 2 on track to launch in March despite coronavirus crisis, updated iPad Pro models with new camera system expected in first half of 2020 — - Coronavirus has hurt both supply and demand for iPhone maker — Low-cost iPhone plans said to remain on track for March launch
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Jeff Bezos says he is launching the Bezos Earth Fund to fight climate change and committing $10B “to start”, with first grants slated to be issued this summer — The Bezos Earth Fund will begin issuing grants this summer — Today, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Tests of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's “Ultra Thin Glass” display show durability is on par with plastic screens; Samsung to offer one-time $119 screen replacement — The Z Flip's display scratches as easily as plastic — Samsung's claim that the new Galaxy Z Flip uses “Ultra Thin Glass” …
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| Amelia Lucas / CNBC: |
Sources: US Commerce Department is proposing restrictions requiring foreign companies to obtain licenses in order to make chips for Huawei using US equipment — - The Commerce Department is considering requiring chip factories globally to obtain licenses if they want to use American equipment …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
An extortion scam is allegedly threatening website operators with junk ad clicks that trigger Google's fraud detection to limit or ban a site's AdSense account — A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google's AdSense program.
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| Financial Times: |
After meeting Zuckerberg on Facebook's proposal for harmful content regulation, commissioner overseeing EU data strategy calls it “not enough” and “too slow” — ‘Not enough’, says Thierry Breton, the EU's digital strategy official — The EU immediately rejected …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Microsoft's Office app for Android is now generally available, after releasing a public preview in November, but lacks support for tablets and Chromebooks — Once upon a time, you could view and edit Google Docs files from a single Drive app, but Google later split them up into multiple editing applications.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Report: 2019's total web traffic to top 100 sites was up 8% from 2018, driven by mobile; the top 10 sites saw 167.5B monthly visits in 2019, up 10.7% YoY — Mobile adoption around the world is having a significant impact on the web's traffic. According to a new report from SimilarWeb …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Redbox launches ad-supported Free Live TV, which offers a curated set of movies and TV shows organized into channels, from brands like TMZ, USA Today, NowThis — Redbox has entered the ad-supported streaming market with the launch of Redbox Free Live TV. The company, best known … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: global smart speaker shipments hit 146.9M in 2019, up 70% YoY; Amazon led with 38.5M, down from 49.5M in 2018, followed by Google with 29.8M — In 2019, both Amazon and Google ceded smart speaker market share to Chinese rivals, according to a survey published today by Strategy Analytics.| Andreessen Horowitz: |
AI-centric businesses face scaling challenges and lower gross margins due to high compute usage and ongoing human support compared to traditional software firms — At a technical level, artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software. AI is showing remarkable progress on a range …
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