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Instagram announces Co-Watching, a feature that lets users browse the app together over video chat — - Facebook's Instagram announced a feature that lets users browse the app with friends over video chat. — The feature is called Co-Watching, and it allows users in direct-message conversations …
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iPad Pro 2020 review: it is fast and has trackpad support and a great display, but iPadOS limitations still grate, and it lacks a headphone jack — An iterative year-over-year update — Apple's tagline for the new 2020 iPad Pro models is “Your next computer is not a computer.”
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Sources: Facebook's in talks to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in Reliance Jio to expand its presence in India; source says it was nearing deal for a 10% share — Deal seeks to expand social media giant's presence in India stalled by coronavirus travel ban
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Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a critical zero-day flaw in font rendering that is found in all supported versions of Windows; no patch is available — Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a previously undisclosed security vulnerability found in all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mobile-only banking app Revolut, which has 10M+ customers in Europe, is launching in the US today — European fintech startup Revolut is launching its app and service in the U.S. Starting today, anybody can sign up and get a Revolut debit card. In the U.S., Revolut has partnered …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, Morocco, and Myanmar — In a post on its developer website this afternoon, Apple has announced that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon now offers all US part-time and seasonal delivery employees paid time off amid COVID-19 outbreak; an employee group had been pressuring Amazon since Dec. — Thousands of Amazon Logistics employees will start accruing paid time off for the first time today, according to photos …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Study: speech recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentify words 19% of the time with white people vs. 35% with black people — Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black.
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| Ariel Shapiro / Forbes: |
Streaming services see signup spikes in the past week, boosted by free trials, with Disney+ up over 300%, HBO Now 90%, Showtime 78%, Netflix 47%, Apple TV+ 10% — Topline: As Americans brace for spending weeks (or months) inside as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, they are subscribing … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils the Stadia Makers program to attract more indie developers, promising funding, technical assistance from Unity experts, free developer hardware — At the virtual Google for Games Developer Summit today, the company announced “Stadia Makers” to bring more indie titles to the platform.
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Mozilla launches Firefox Better Web with Scroll for Firefox tracking protection and Scroll's ad-free browsing experience for $2.50/mo. for the first six months — Mozilla just announced a new initiative called Firefox Better Web with Scroll, which combines the tracking protection built … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google open sources SEED RL, a TensorFlow 2.0-based architecture for scaling AI model training to thousands of machines while reducing costs by up to 80% — Google researchers recently published a paper describing a framework — SEED RL — that scales AI model training to thousands of machines.
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The spread of COVID-19 has marked an uptick in livestreamed funerals and ancestor ceremonies, forcing the technological stagnant death industry to adapt — It's easier than ever to bury your loved ones online — Shanghai last spring, more than two million people flocked to their local cemeteries …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India launches a WhatsApp chatbot to create awareness about coronavirus and asks social media services to curb spread of misinformation — India is turning to WhatsApp, the most popular app in the country, to create awareness about the coronavirus pandemic and has urged social media services … Sponsor Posts
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