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Apple unveils new 11" and 12.9" iPad Pro with a lidar scanner for depth-sensing, backlit keyboard and trackpad, available to order today for $799+ and $999+ — New Magic Keyboard Designed for iPad Pro Features a Floating Design, Backlit Keyboard and Trackpad, Delivering the Best Typing Experience Ever on iPad
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Apple launches new MacBook Air with a Magic Keyboard featuring scissor-style keys, 13.3" display, Touch ID, and 10th-gen Intel Core CPUs, starting at $999 — The Most Popular Mac Now Has Up to 2x Faster Performance, the New Magic Keyboard and Twice the Storage
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple updates Mac Mini with double the storage capacity in standard configurations, with the $799 base model now coming with a 256GB SSD — Apple today updated the Mac mini so that standard configurations now come with double the storage capacity. — The $799 configuration now comes …
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| Washington Post: |
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: |
Israel approves emergency measures, it says lasting 30 days, for its security agencies to track the mobile phone data of people suspected to have COVID-19 — The Israeli government has approved emergency measures for its security agencies to track the mobile phone data of people with suspected coronavirus.
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Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Yahoo Finance, Silicon Republic, and BGR
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Amid COVID-19 crisis, tech platforms are making a premature bet on AI, as human moderators shift to moderating less sensitive content while working from home — Today, let's talk about some of the front-line workers at Facebook and Google working on the pandemic: the content moderators who keep the site running day in and day out.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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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 Keyword, The Verge, BetaNews, Gizchina, Social Media Today, MediaNama, Input, SiliconANGLE, Android Central, Liliputing, XDA Developers, and Android Authority
Tweets: @ramprasad_c, @epro, and @backlon
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack unveils a new design with an updated navigation bar, collapsible sections within the sidebar, improved ways to respond to threads and mentions, and more — It arrives today, and it's more customizable and simplified — Slack is unveiling a big redesign to its communications app …
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Tweets: @mkarolian, @joannastern, @cbranch89, @joshsternberg, @alexjamesfitz, @walldo, and @backlon
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
This pandemic has generated a surge in online community building, creating cautious optimism that our virtual efforts can offset some in-person losses — We've always hoped that our digital tools would create connections, not conflict. We have a chance to make it happen.
Tweets: @cnalive, @nbcnews, @salilkallianpur, @ediplomat, @f_kaltheuner, @brianstelter, @kevinroose, @nikillinit, and @shiraovide
| 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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| Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
Study: Microsoft Edge sends frequent hashed IDs tied to hardware to its back-end servers, making it one of the least private browsers available — Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers — even more so than other popular browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox — according to academic researchers.| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Opera partners with e-payments startup Wyre to enable US users of its browser-based crypto wallet to buy bitcoin and ether using a debit card or Apple Pay — The Opera browser app has partnered with e-payments startup Wyre to expand its built-in wallet's crypto buying power, the Norwegian web developer announced Tuesday.
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| South China Morning Post: |
Tencent Q4 earnings miss estimates with net profit of $3.1B, up 52% YoY, from revenue of $1.5B, up 25% YoY, amid delays to cloud projects — China's biggest social media and gaming company just misses fourth quarter estimates amid delays to cloud projects It warned there will be an impact … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Amazon prioritizes shipments of household staples and high-demand products to its warehouses, partially suspending Fulfillment by Amazon program through April 5 — - Amazon told sellers and vendors on Tuesday that it was suspending shipments of all nonessential products to its warehouses …
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coinspeaker.com, Wccftech, Search Engine Land, Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, Fox News, and KnowTechie
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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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| 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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The Verge. Tweets: @davidzipper, @broderick, @cahnemily, @unseen1_unseen, @reuters, and @jboyolee
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