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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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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
After canceling Google I/O's in-person event in early March, Google now says it will “not be holding an I/O event in any capacity this year” — Google earlier this month announced that it was not hosting a physical developer conference in light of coronavirus.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A day with the new MacBook Air: delightfully close to perfection and settles all the issues with keyboard, price, and performance, but its camera still stinks — We waited a long time for a retina MacBook Air. When we finally got it back in November 2018, it was worth waiting for.
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| Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
Study: using touch on Apple CarPlay or Android Auto impairs driver reaction times by 50%+, vs. 35% for texting-while-driving and 46% for hand-held phone calls — U.K. based road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has released a study showing how in-vehicle infotainment systems …
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| CNBC: |
AWS commits $20M and launches a diagnostics development unit, with 35 partner orgs, to accelerate research to find a faster, more affordable test for COVID-19 — - Amazon is launching a diagnostics development unit through its cloud unit, AWS. — The idea is to back researchers with funds …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, Adobe Reader, and desktop Safari were exploited during the 2020 Pwn2Own hacking contest, which was held virtually — Team Fluoroacetate wins fourth tournament in a row. — The 2020 spring edition of the Pwn2Own hacking contest has come to a close today.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
WHO debuts Health Alert, a fact-finding tool on WhatsApp that shows up-to-date info like novel COVID-19 infection rates, travel advisories, and debunked misinfo — The World Health Organization is partnering with the messaging app to help ensure trustworthy information gets out.
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| Strategy Analytics: |
Research: global smartphone shipments dropped 38% YoY in February, from 99.2M units in 2019 to 61.8M in 2020 — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments tumbled 38 percent year-on-year in the month of February, 2020.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yelp commits $25M to local restaurants in waived fees and free services as its data shows US consumer interest in restaurants fell by 54% over the past week — Yelp announced this morning that it's making a number of changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.| Brent Lang / Variety: |
Netflix creates a $100M fund to support cast and crew members laid off from Netflix projects, with $15M to go to third parties and nonprofits — Netflix has created a $100 million relief fund to help members of the creative community who have been left unemployed and without a way to earn an income during the coronavirus crisis.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube unveils a COVID-19 “news shelf” on its homepage in 16 countries with verified content from authoritative news sources and health officials — Pulling from authoritative sources — YouTube will introduce a new row of verified videos to its homepage for anyone trying … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Diligent Robotics, an Austin-based startup whose Moxi robot aims to assist nurses by doing menial labor in hospitals, raises a $10M Series A led by DNX Ventures — 28% of a nurse's time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like fetching medical tools. We need them focused on the complex …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Twitter, which prohibits denials of established science on the virus' transmission, says Elon Musk's tweet that kids are “essentially immune” is not a violation — The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus.
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| CityAM: |
Quit Genius, which provides personalized digital therapy to help people quit addictions like smoking, raises $11M Series A led by Octopus Ventures — A health tech startup backed by tennis champion Serena Williams has raised $11m (£9.4m) to bolster its digital therapy services to tackle addiction.
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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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