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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video say they will reduce their streaming quality in EU to reduce traffic on the network, as millions are confined at home — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Friday it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's supply chain still disrupted by COVID-19-related shutdowns in countries like Malaysia; 5G iPhones still expected to launch by fall — - Virus responses in Malaysia, U.S., Europe disrupt suppliers — 5G iPhone currently still on schedule, but timeline could slip
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MacRumors, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, DigiTimes, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, TechRadar.com, Wccftech, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iMore, 9to5Mac, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @caixin
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Twitter broadens its definition of harm to address content with deceptive language around COVID-19, including “denial of established scientific facts” — Site changes rules to ban content aimed at making people act against official advice — Twitter will remove tweets that run …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate, which promises to better unify the features and capabilities of PC gaming and the Xbox platform, coming later this year — Bringing a suite of software advancements in gaming graphics onto a single platform — Microsoft has a new version …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Court filing: Anthony Levandowski, ex-Uber self-driving head, pleads guilty to trade secrets theft from Google in exchange for 32 other charges being dropped — The guilty plea, which could lead to a prison sentence, is the latest twist in a years-long saga of conflict and courtroom drama
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is internally testing a Snapchat-like ephemeral feature that clears chat messages after all members have viewed the thread and closed it — Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat's most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn't already cloned.
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Thurrott, Engadget, The Next Web, Social Media Today, CNET, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @wongmjane, @instagramcomms, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter: |
GDC announces a new San Francisco event, GDC Summer, from August 4-6 after initially postponing the March event — The three-day event will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center from August 4-6. — Informa Tech, the organizer of the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco …
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| Stefan Seltz-Axmacher / Starsky Robotics 10–4 Labs: |
Self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics is shutting down; CEO cites “unmet promise of AI” and says investors rejected the operator business model — In 2015, I got obsessed with the idea of driverless trucks and started Starsky Robotics. In 2016, we became …
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Tweets: @hardmaru, @inm7_isn, @chr1sa, @benedictevans, @garymarcus, and @kscottz
| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Storj Labs launches a blockchain-based decentralized cloud storage service for enterprises at 50% lower pricing than AWS to securely store files and documents — Decentralized storage provider Storj Labs says its blockchain-based cloud service is now available for businesses and individuals to securely store files and documents.
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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Storj Blog, PR Newswire, Forbes, Decrypt, BetaNews, Forbes, and Database Trends …
| Phillip Prado / Android Authority: |
Google says Android Go, its OS aimed at low-end devices, now has more than 100M users and announces a new Camera Go app optimized for devices with 1GB of RAM — Today, Google made two exciting announcements. Android Go now officially has more than 100 million users, and the company will soon release a new Camera Go app.
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The Keyword, Thurrott, Telecoms.com, SlashGear, The Verge, Wccftech, Digital Trends, and Android Central. Tweets: @stshank
| Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times: |
Kinsa Health's smart thermometers, which have been successful in predicting the spread of flu in previous years, could be used to track the spread of COVID-19 — A company that makes internet-connected thermometers has followed the flu more closely than the C.D.C. can.
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Fast Company, GeekWire, CNET, and ZDNet
Tweets: @brianstelter, @maddowblog, @digiphile, @maddowblog, @mikebettes, @marcacaputo, and @fangirlsmash
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SEC filing: AT&T called off plans to repurchase $4B in stock during Q2 to keep the cash to invest in its networks and take care of employees during the pandemic — AT&T called off plans to repurchase $4 billion in stock during the second quarter — and has halted all other buybacks …
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Subreddit /r/coronavirus has become one of the most authoritative and up-to-date sites on COVID-19, with 1.2M+ members, 1M+ of which signed up in past two weeks — The Reddit message board /r/coronavirus has grown to more than 1.2 million members — almost a million of whom signed up in the last two weeks.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook starts rolling out its sweeping desktop redesign, which offers dark mode, tabbed home screen, larger fonts, and a cleaner profile, to all users — Facebook today officially rolled out its sweeping desktop redesign that offers dark mode, tabbed homescreen, and a cleaner profile.
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TechRadar.com, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, The Verge, KnowTechie, The Next Web, and Android Police
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @willfealey, @wongmjane, and @joshconstine
| TechCrunch: |
Slack says it added around 7,000 new customers in the 47 days between February 1 and March 18, compared to the 5,000 it added in its most recent quarter — Today, Slack, a popular internal chat application, announced that it added 7,000 new customers between February 1 and March 18. That is 47 days.
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Tweets: @arnoldkim, @profgeraintrees, @nmasc_, and @daveleeft
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