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Sources: the US government is in active talks with Facebook, Google, and others to use location data from Americans' smartphones to stem COVID-19's spread — The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts … | Joe Tidy / BBC: |
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google Translate debuts Transcribe for Android, letting users transcribe conversations in real-time across eight languages, with future plans to ship on iOS — Google Translate today launched Transcribe for Android, a feature that delivers a continual, real-time translation of a conversation.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Facebook says all employees will get a $1,000 bonus and earn at least their full bonus for their first 6-month review of 2020 amid COVID-19 crisis — Facebook will pay a $1,000 bonus to every employee, one of the first big companies to offer workers cash to help them during the coronavirus outbreak.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Facebook says it plans to award $100M in cash grants and ad credits for up to 30,000 small businesses in 30+ countries to address COVID-19's economic impact — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said Tuesday it plans to award $100 million in cash grants and ad credits for up to 30,000 small businesses …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers say Facebook's content moderation policies aren't enough because the core problem stems from ad targeting and algorithmically optimized content — In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, Facebook's misinformation problem has taken on new urgency.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon to prioritize shipments of household staples and other high-demand products, partially suspending its Fulfillment by Amazon program through April 5 — Amazon's ‘Fulfillment by Amazon’ (FBA) program, through which it provides warehousing and shipment services for products from third-party sellers …
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| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
Uber suspends its Uber Pool feature in the US and Canada, and Lyft says it is pausing Shared rides across all its markets to reduce the spread of COVID-19 — Uber has suspended its Uber Pool feature in the United States and Canada due to the worsening outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Tweets: @davidzipper, @reuters, @broderick, @jboyolee, @unseen1_unseen, @jeremarketer, and @cahnemily
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says on its website that stores will be closed “until further notice”, after first saying they'd be closed until March 27 — Late on Friday, Apple announced that it would close all Apple Stores outside of Greater China until March 27th. Over the weekend …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Fox is buying ad-supported streaming service Tubi in $440M cash deal; Tubi remains separate company, deal mostly financed with proceeds from sale of Roku stake — With a focus on bringing sports and news to subscribers, not original content — Fox Corporation has acquired ad-supported … | TechCrunch: |
Overview of the companies from Y Combinator's W20 Demo Day, which debuted presentations online to invited investors and media — Y Combinator's Demo Day was a bit different this time around. — As concerns grew over the spread of COVID-19, Y Combinator shifted the event format away …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google postpones the rescheduled, online version of its Cloud Next conference until further notice, after canceling the in-person conference a few weeks ago — the in-person version of Cloud Next, its largest conference of the year, amid a flurry of similar coronavirus-related cancellations of major events.
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Google Cloud Blog, SDxCentral, Business Insider, 9to5Google, The Verge, and Android Police
Tweets: @fredericl and @awagonfeld
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches Android and iOS apps out of beta, letting developers stay in touch with their team, triage issues, and even merge code from their mobile device — Microsoft's GitHub today launched its native Android and iOS app out of beta. With the app hitting general availability … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
HHS waives penalties for the use of non-HIPAA compliant video chatting services, like FaceTime and Skype, for telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak — The coronavirus crisis is pushing the US government to loosen one of its only laws on data privacy. The Department of Health and Human Services …
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HHS.gov, Slate, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, GovInfoSecurity, The Federalist, EIN News, FierceHealthcare, and Nextgov
| BuzzFeed News: |
Some warehouse workers say Amazon isn't doing enough to limit the spread of coronavirus within its fulfillment centers and demand additional protections — As Americans retreat to their homes to weather the coronavirus pandemic, they are increasingly turning to Amazon to get basic necessities …
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| Dave Clark / The Amazon Blog: |
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Tweets: @jaycarney, @khanoisseur, @w7voa, @robertjcrane, @jess4liberty, @firstadopter, @phillyjoed, and @rdrv3
| New York Times: |
As the COVID-19 outbreak discourages moviegoers and theatrical releases get delayed, the ascendancy of streaming services may be accelerating — Cinemas, already contending with streaming services, are now facing the prospect of no audiences and no new films because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hollywood Reporter, Comcast Corporation, Engadget, and AppleInsider
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