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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft adds productivity features to Cortana, drops consumer skills including music, connected home, and third-party skills in the upcoming Windows 10 update — Cortana is converting to a productivity assistant, meaning Cortana skills are on the way out. — What you need to know
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| CNN: |
Twitter verified the account of a fake candidate for Congress created by a 17-year-old to test its election integrity efforts; the account is now suspended — New York (CNN Business)Andrew Walz calls himself a “proven business leader” and a “passionate advocate for students.”
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
FCC proposes fines of $91M for T-Mobile, $57M for AT&T, $48M for Verizon, and $12M for Sprint for sharing customers' location information with outside parties — The Federal Communications Commission proposed fines totaling more than $200 million against the nation's biggest wireless carriers …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon has started restricting all non-essential travel by employees in the US as the coronavirus continues to spread — - Amazon has started restricting all nonessential employee travel in the U.S. as the coronavirus continues to spread, a company spokesperson told CNBC.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Docs show Best Buy and Walmart, alongside ICE, DOJ, and FBI, are among the 2,200+ companies and law enforcement agencies listed as clients of Clearview AI — The United States' main immigration enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, retailers including Best Buy and Macy's …
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| Carli Velocci / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says it will not attend Game Developers Conference due to coronavirus concerns and will make sessions and experiences available in a digital event — The move follows Sony, Facebook, and Unity. — What you need to know — Microsoft Game Stack announced it's pulling out of GDC due to coronavirus concerns.
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it has barred 1M+ products from sale in recent weeks that had inaccurately claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has barred more than 1 million products from sale in recent weeks that had inaccurately claimed to cure or defend against the coronavirus …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to start rolling out a redesign for Messenger next week that removes the Discover tab, reorients the People tab around Stories, and hides chat bots — Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger's strategy three years ago. Now they're being hidden from view in the app along with games and businesses.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @gustaf, @shiraovide, @searchmartin, @daveleeft, and @mattnavarra
| Bloomberg: |
TikTok, with 145M US downloads, claims Chipotle-sponsored #boorito hashtag had 3.9B views; Captiv8: hashtag campaigns cost ~$150K, homescreen takeover $50K/day — Popular creators are paid to promote hashtags as mobile video app develops more targeting tools for advertisers| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Bernie Sanders introduces a bill that would tax stock options at vesting, not at exercise, for those making $130K+ and vesting $100K+ worth of stock per year — 'Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced legislation that would tax nonqualified stock options at vesting …
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is planning to release an iPad keyboard with a built-in trackpad, likely with the next version of the iPad Pro, later this year — Apple is planning to release an iPad keyboard accessory later this year that will include a built-in trackpad, the latest step in its effort …
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Tweets: @joannastern, @backlon, @shanselman, @lifeofbrianca, @cfarivar, @snazzyq, @getwired, @stroughtonsmith, @viticci, @detroitborg, @ow, @reneritchie, @tonyromm, and @markgurman
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
A profile of Stripe and Y Combinator-backed digital bank Monzo, which has $1.6B+ in customer deposits, 3.8M customers, and says 40K are signing up every week — - Tom Blomfield started Monzo in 2015. Five years later, the digital bank's bright coral pink cards are now a common sight in London.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google Stadia's APK shows Stadia may get a free tier and features like YouTube streaming, family game sharing, and more — Google Stadia received an update today, bringing it to version 2.7, and introducing a few minor tweaks to the UI. Below the surface though, we find that Google …
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Thurrott, Yahoo Finance, and The Verge
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
Counterpoint: iPhone XR was the best selling phone globally for 2019, followed by the iPhone 11, with the Samsung Galaxy A50 coming in third — According to Counterpoint Research's Market Pulse, iPhone 11 raced to become the second-best selling model globally for 2019 despite it being launched in September.
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Tweets: @stopsatgreen, @neiltwitz, and @slightlylate
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