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Organizers announce that this year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed from March to summer amid COVID-19 concerns — Sony, EA, Activision Blizzard, Unity, and Epic Games have all withdrawn due to COVID-19 concerns — This year's Game Developers Conference has been postponed …
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Amazon restricts employee travel in US, Google restricts travel to Italy, Iran, Japan, and South Korea as a Google employee in Zurich is diagnosed with COVID-19 — A Google employee in Switzerland has a confirmed case of the virus — Google is preventing employees from traveling to Italy …
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Sources: Elliott Management has taken a “sizable” stake in Twitter, nominated four directors to Twitter's board, and seeks to replace CEO Jack Dorsey — - Elliott has nominated four directors for Twitter's board — Hedge fund has had ‘constructive discussions’ with company
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Apple disables the iOS developer account of Clearview AI for using the Developer Enterprise Program to distribute its app among its reported 2,200+ customers — Apple has disabled the iOS application of Clearview AI — the facial recognition company that claims to have amassed a database …
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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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Windows Experience Blog, BetaNews, ZDNet, gHacks Technology News, Engadget, Windows Central, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, SlashGear, OnMSFT.com, TechSpot, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, The Verge, Thurrott, Neowin, Windows Central, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @maryjofoley, @jezcorden, and @zacbowden
| 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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Federal Communications …, CNET, Ars Technica, South China Morning Post, Krebs on Security, Wired, Gizchina, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Protocol, MacRumors, TmoNews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, GeekWire, CNN, Yahoo Finance, Washington Post, Phone Scoop, The Daily Dot, VICE, and Techdirt
Tweets: @fcc, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| DL Cade / PetaPixel: |
Facebook says its 3D Photos feature, which retroactively converts 2D photos to 3D using neural nets, now works on photos taken with single-lens cameras — Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don't actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning …
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Facebook AI, VentureBeat, Input, Social Media Today, MSPoweruser, The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Engadget, SlashGear, and CNET. Tweets: @scobleizer
| 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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| 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.
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9to5Mac, Input, Social Media Today, iMore, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Business Insider, and The Verge
Tweets: @joshconstine, @jacobschulman, @caseynewton, @gustaf, @shiraovide, @searchmartin, @daveleeft, @mattnavarra, and @caseynewton
| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
In warehouses, call centers, and elsewhere, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous — In warehouses, call centers, and other sectors, intelligent machines are managing humans, and they're making work more stressful, grueling, and dangerous
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Wired. Tweets: @joshdzieza, @noahpinion, @ctricot, @gregpak, @bigzaphod, @gothamgirlblue, @janelytv, @mattdpearce, and @iainthomson
| Business Insider: |
Investigation: several staff members of the Chan-Zuckerberg family office have made allegations of assault, sexual harassment, and more, against other staff — KAUAI, Hawaii — One minute before midnight on December 29, 2017, one of Mark Zuckerberg's personal staffers got a phone call.
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The Daily Beast and Business Insider
Tweets: @ravi_hiranand, @beckpeterson, @businessinsider, @beckpeterson, @robaeprice, and @robaeprice. Thanks:@shonaghosh
| Alex Lee / Wired: |
A look at the TranscribersOfReddit subreddit where 3,186 volunteers write elaborate transcriptions of memes, videos, and images to make the site more accessible — To help Redditors with visual impairments, volunteers are writing elaborate transcriptions of memes and images across the site.Sponsor Posts
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