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Microsoft details Xbox Series X specs: custom 8-core 3.8GHz AMD Zen 2 CPU, custom 1.825GHz AMD RNDA 2 GPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD with expansion card support — This is it. After months of teaser trailers, blog posts and even the occasional leak, we can finally reveal firm …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account — - Alphabet's Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it said it would.
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| The Intercept: |
Leaked docs: TikTok told moderators to suppress posts from those deemed “ugly”, poor, or disabled, and censor political speech in livestreams, to attract users — The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world … | CNBC: |
Apple fined €1.1B by French antitrust authorities for anticompetitive behavior within its distribution networks; Apple says it will appeal — Apple was fined 1.1 billion euros ($1.23 billion) for anti-competitive behavior Monday by the French antitrust authorities.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US Department of Health and Human Services suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night, apparently aimed at slowing coronavirus response — The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation's response …
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt raises $300M Series B with M12 among the investors, says an app to help consumers manage digital assets is coming in summer — Bakkt has raised a $300 million Series B round of financing, according to a Monday morning announcement.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Beats announces $149 Powerbeats with 15 hours of battery life, Apple's H1 chip for quick pairing, and IPX4 rating for water resistance, available March 18 — They've already leaked plenty and Walmart even put them on shelves before an official announcement, but now Apple's Beats brand is launching the new Powerbeats 4 earbuds.| Will Knight / Wired: |
After China and South Korea used smartphones to track people with COVID-19, researchers are testing apps to monitor contact among people, amid privacy concerns — China and South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. But Americans have different views of privacy and data collection.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Profile of Zoom, which has conquered video chat with a simple service that keeps latency under 150 milliseconds, as COVID-19 forces employees to work remotely — Before coronavrius locked workers at home, Zoom was a leading videoconferencing tool. But it wants to be more. It wants to be your whole office.
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
WSJ: some Apple employees still work from HQ due to restrictions on external access to some systems and prohibitions on unreleased products from leaving campus — The process of tech companies sending thousands of employees home amid the coronavirus crisis has been messy, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Israel's Netanyahu has authorized the use of a previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to fight coronavirus; the move still requires approval — The information, intended for use in counterterrorism, would help identify people who have crossed paths with known patients.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says 1B devices are now running Windows 10, which includes PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles, and HoloLens — Microsoft's original milestone has been reached — Microsoft is revealing today that 1 billion active machines are now running Windows 10.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Rancher Labs, which develops an open source Kubernetes management service, raises $40M Series D led by Telstra Ventures, bringing its total raised to $95M — The six year-old startup is going after new markets that want to run Kubernetes clusters at the edge.
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