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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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Tweets: @tomwarren, @stroughtonsmith, @dcseifert, @benbajarin, @tomwarren, @fromedome, and @neilcybart
| Apple: |
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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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple adds full trackpad support to iPadOS 13.4, available to all iPad models running it on March 24, and unveils a new Magic Keyboard with built-in trackpad — Available on March 24th — Apple is adding support for trackpads to iPads with its new iPadOS 13.4 software update …
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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 …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp announces two initiatives to combat COVID-19 misinformation: an Information Hub in partnership with WHO and others, and a $1M grant to Poynter — WhatsApp has long grappled with its platform being used to spread misinformation. In the latest move, today it announced two initiatives … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| 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
| 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 … | 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.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FireEye: 76% of all enterprise ransomware attacks occur outside business hours, when IT staff support is reduced, overall ransomware attacks up 860% since 2017 — FireEye: 27% of all ransomware attacks take place during the weekend, 49% after working hours during weekdays.| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
How one researcher is using Facebook's anonymized data sets and new colocation maps to identify social distancing habits — Facebook's mapping tools are helping researchers in California track whether people are following social distancing orders. — As the COVID-19 outbreak continued …
Tweets: @emilydreyfuss, @issielapowsky, and @timgrieve
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Advanced Protection program users will no longer be able to sideload apps or turn off Google Play Protect, which scans apps for malicious behavior — Google has announced a handful of Android-related security features today as the company looks to plug any critical gaps in its operating system …
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Android Police, ZDNet, Android Authority, 9to5Google, The Keyword, and Forbes
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at video chat service Around, launching today, which uses auto-zoom and noise canceling to keep faces and voices in focus, letting users multitask — You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen.
Tweets: @joshconstine, @yoda, and @thekenyeung
| New York Times: |
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the fragile situation of gig economy workers around the world, many of whom are losing their main income source — Gig companies promoted their flexible hours as an economic lifeline for workers. In the coronavirus outbreak, it has been anything but.
Tweets: @andreas212nyc and @satariano
| 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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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese video sharing app Likee is looking to expand in the US, following in the footsteps of TikTok, as the app's MAUs grew to 115.3M, up 208%, in Q4 — - Likee was a breakout hit in 2019 and is keeping momentum up — Operating out of Singapore may ease U.S. regulator concernsSponsor Posts
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