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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts a Family Safety mobile app and AI-powered PowerPoint and Excel features as part of its 365 Family and Personal subscriptions, coming April 21 — Microsoft today announced that on April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365, or “the subscription for your life.”
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Teams for consumers, to help plan trips, share grocery lists, and more, Skype DAUs up 70% month-over-month to 40M, calling minutes up 220% — As part of its Microsoft 365 for consumers news today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Teams for consumers and new Skype metrics.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says Chromium Edge is getting Vertical Tabs, Smart Copy to help you copy web content into docs, Password Monitor to alert users of stolen credentials — Microsoft today announced upcoming features for its Edge browser based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser Google's Chrome is based on.| The Information: |
Facebook says it has struck a deal to buy all of the augmented reality displays made by British firm Plessey, which sources say Apple recently looked at buying — Facebook has struck a deal to buy all of the augmented reality displays made by British firm Plessey, as the social network looks …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn posted a $1.58B profit in Q4 2019, down 24% YoY; sources say the 5G iPhone will launch in the fall, but future Apple products may be delayed — - The company known as Foxconn grappling with Covid-19 upheaval — Apple's key partner getting back on track after the outbreak| Marc Tracy / New York Times: |
Facebook says it will invest $100M to support the news industry during COVID-19: $25M in emergency funding for local news and $75M in additional marketing spend — With grants and marketing spending, the social media giant hopes to support outlets doing essential local reporting but struggling with a drop in advertising.
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Sources: Facebook's security team had disinfo concerns about The Daily Wire's sites in 2019, clashing with the policy team, which prevented action being taken — After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
After changing its rules, Twitter is cracking down on COVID-19 misinformation from prominent accounts, including Brazilian President Bolsonaro and Rudy Giuliani — It's notable that Twitter, like other social networks, has announced stricter rules on virus-related misinformation than other types of false posts.
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| Zara Stone / OneZero : |
A look at video chat service Houseparty, which has topped the Australian, Canadian, and UK iOS App Stores and is like Zoom but with built-in games — ast Saturday night, Jason Shaverin, a 36-year-old project manager in London, spent three hours talking to friends on Houseparty …
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Tweets: @ozm, @ozm, @mvzelenks, and @ozm
| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
HackerOne expels mobile voting vendor Voatz from its security program over hostile interactions with researchers, the first time it's cut ties with an org — HackerOne, a company that pairs ethical hackers with organizations to fix software flaws, has kicked mobile voting vendor Voatz off its platform …
Tweets: @snlyngaas, @gregotto, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, and @kimzetter
| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Review of AMD's 7nm, 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS, which is now available in PCs like the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, shows it crushing Intel's most powerful laptop CPUs — When AMD introduced its Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs at CES, the company made bold claims of game-changing performance.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A hacker hijacked several of Microsoft's YouTube channels to broadcast a crypto Ponzi scam, which continued for over 14 hours — Several of Microsoft's YouTube accounts appear to have been hacked. — A hacker has hijacked all of Microsoft's official YouTube accounts and is broadcasting …
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @campuscodi, @brianfagioli, @cauchon, and @campuscodi
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Kabbage, a Softbank-backed small business loan platform, is furloughing a “significant number” of its 500 US staff, closing India office in the wake of pandemic — Another tech unicorn is feeling the pinch of doing business during the coronavirus pandemic.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Personal information of nearly 5M citizens of the country of Georgia leaked, including home addresses, dates of birth, ID numbers, and mobile phone numbers — A file containing personal information for 4,934,863 Georgians has been published on a hacker forum over the weekend.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in early March, Apple started letting some engineers take home early versions of future devices to continue work during the lockdown period — With its 175-acre campus in Cupertino, California, and several dozen more offices across the rest of the world, Apple Inc. wasn't designed as a work-at-home company.| Josh Lawler / CoinDesk: |
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