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Microsoft encourages Seattle area and Bay Area employees to work from home if possible through March 25 and asks sick employees to stay home — - People who can work from home in the two affected areas should do that, Microsoft said. — Microsoft said non-essential business travel … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
DuckDuckGo makes Tracker Radar, a tool detailing 5,326 domains used by 1,727 companies and organizations that track users online, publicly available — DuckDuckGo, the maker of search engine and browser technology that doesn't track you online, is sharing data it's collected about online trackers …
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Emails show Wolfcom, a major body cam provider in the US, is testing integrating live facial recognition on its Halo camera with at least one police department — Police cam manufacturer Wolfcom has contracts with 1,500 organizations — olfcom, a company that makes technology for police …
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VentureBeat. Tweets: @willoremus, @kevinroose, @dlberes, @mer__edith, @mallorytmcmahon, @trevortimm, @dlberes, @dlberes, @zittrain, @emanuelmaiberg, @olaasm, @fightfortheftr, @michellelegro, and @davegershgorn. Thanks:@dlberes
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Former Uber self-driving unit head Anthony Levandowski, a key figure in the Uber-Waymo trade secrets trial, ordered to pay $179M to Google over contract breach — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The former head of Uber Technologies Inc's self-driving technology unit must pay $179 million to Google …
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Daring Fireball, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @smashdawg, @counternotions, @nytimesbusiness, @jim_edwards, @mikeisaac, @reutersbiz, @brianstorms, @yoda, @thekenyeung, and @mhbergen
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out 4K gaming for Stadia on the web for Stadia Pro subscribers; until now 4K gameplay was limited to Chromecast Ultra and TVs — Google last month started fulfilling its Q1 2020 roadmap by rolling out its streaming service to Samsung, Asus, and Razer phones.| About Facebook: |
Facebook says it is suing Namecheap, and its proxy service Whoisguard, for registering 45 domain names that pretend to be affiliated with Facebook apps — This week we filed a lawsuit in Arizona against Namecheap, a domain name registrar, as well as its proxy service, Whoisguard … | Michael H. Keller / New York Times: |
Five Eyes nations release guidelines for platforms to fight child porn; two US senators float bill to remove Section 230 for failure to police such content — Legislation announced on Thursday aimed at curbing the spread of online child sexual abuse imagery would take the extraordinary step …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey says he is reevaluating plans to spend part of the year in Africa amid the coronavirus outbreak and “everything else going on” — The Twitter CEO is facing down an adversarial investor who wants him gone — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reevaluating his plans …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google launches a version of Anthos cloud platform for telecoms as part of its Global Mobile Edge Cloud strategy, partners with AT&T to test 5G edge solutions — Google LLC today launched a new version of its Anthos application development platform for telecommunications providers …
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Google Cloud, TechCrunch, ZDNet, PR Newswire, Light Reading, Fortune, and TechRepublic
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it will switch to mobile-first indexing for all sites from September and 70% of sites shown in its search results have already shifted over — Google has said currently 70% of sites shown in search have already been switched over. — Google has announced that by September 2020 …
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TechCrunch, Google Webmaster Central Blog, 9to5Google, and Engadget
Tweets: @marie_haynes, @aleyda, @googlewmc, @ludobos, and @campuscodi
| Charles Levinson / Protocol: |
Sources: federal agencies like CBP and ICE are using Locate X, a tool by a company called Babel Street that tracks phones using data from popular apps — Federal agencies have big contracts with Virginia-based Babel Street. Depending on where you've traveled, your movements may be in the company's data.
Tweets: @lourdesgnavarro, @elizabeth_joh, @demianbulwa, and @levinsonc
| Amy Castor / Decrypt: |
UK's FCA warns UK citizens against offers from crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, saying it lacks authorization to market financial products in the country — The Financial Conduct Authority cautions UK citizens to avoid the bitcoin derivatives platform. Bitmex is promoting its services without authorization, it says.
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FCA, CoinDesk, InsideBitcoins.com, The Block, BitcoinExchangeGuide, CryptoGlobe, Coingape, Bitcoinist.com, CoinGape, Trustnodes, Cointelegraph, and CoinGeek
Tweets: @timccopeland, @ahcastor, and @nlw
| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Facebook reverses course and says it will remove 1K+ deceptive census ads being run by the Trump campaign, after initially saying they do not violate its policy — November's election will have an enormous impact on politics in the United States for the next four years.
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CNN, Bloomberg Law, The Hill, Vox, Security, and Mashable
Tweets: @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @profcarroll, @martinsfp, and @donie
| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
OnePlus will roll out Door Step Service for repairing devices at users' homes or offices in six cities in India, including Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad — OnePlus is really pumping resources and investment into the Indian market, with exclusive features for fans and device owners in the region.
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OnePlus Community, Neowin, and Android Central
| Kurt Mackie / Redmond Channel Partner: |
Azure IoT and Cisco IoT form partnership to integrate Cisco Edge with Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, say the partnership will enable more edge computing scenarios — Microsoft and Cisco this week announced the “seamless integration” of the two companies' Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud products, enabling more edge computing scenarios.
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azure.microsoft.com, Telecoms.com, Windows Report, and MSDynamicsWorld.com. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon nixed proposals that indicated the environmental impact of shipping choices, including a “Green” delivery option, to avoid alienating shoppers — A few years ago, Amazon.com Inc.'s quick delivery team debated doing something radical for the e-commerce giant: asking shoppers to consider the environment.
Tweets: @business, @tfadell, @shiraovide, @alistairmbarr, @mattmday, @ethan_kraft, and @bizboyle
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
VSCO unveils Montage, an editing tool that lets users stack and layer multiple photos and videos to create a collage, as it continues to shift focus to video — VSCO, a popular photo editing app (and Gen Z meme), is continuing to shift its focus to video. Last month, the company finally gave … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
DoNotPay launches Digital Health, a $3/month tool that automates CCPA data deletion requests; the fee gives users access to its other services like Robo Revenge — In January, a new law gave consumers the power to stop companies collecting their personal information.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo raises $60M Series B, as it prepares to roll out Hailo-8, its edge chip custom-designed for AI workloads — Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series B funding round led by its existing investors, who were joined … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter will begin testing “Fleets”, letting iOS and Android users make posts that disappear after 24 hours, in Brazil, finally using a Stories-like format — Twitter is testing its own version of Stories. The company announced today it will begin to trial a new sharing format called …
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The Verge, Yahoo Finance, MIT Technology Review, The Hill, CCN.com, BBC, International Business Times, Reuters, Android Central, XDA Developers, Geek.com, Wccftech, iPhone Hacks, Telegraph, Social Media Today, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @kayvz, @kayvz, @kayvz, @twittercomms, @caseynewton, @kantrowitz, @btaylor, @joshuarush, @charlieshrem, @thehipsterrebbe, @blanketm9, @anibundel, @s_m_i, @arlenedickinson, @nototally, @shem_infinite, @codyt, @caseynewton, @digiphile, @shanselman, @showupforthis, @willoremus, @monteiro, @chrismlacy, @alexeheath, @oz_f, @mattycurry, @erin_nerung, @kayvz, @darrenrovell, @tomwarren, @rsarver, @yourcompanionai, @edzitron, @ishanagarwal24, @foreverelsanto, and @mattnavarra
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