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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor that will power Pixel smartphones as soon as next year and future Chromebooks — Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel smartphone as soon as next year …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon fires two tech workers who'd been warned for publicly criticizing its warehouse workplace conditions and were outspoken critics of its climate stance — The workers had been outspoken critics of the e-commerce giant's climate policies and were previously warned about making public comments about its business
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| Nat Friedman / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub announces private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now free and reduces the price of the existing paid Team plan from $9 to $4 per month — All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. 🎉 — Until now, if your organization wanted to use GitHub …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Builder, a simple, free DIY tool to help SMBs create short videos — YouTube today is launching a new tool aimed at small businesses who need a simple, low-cost way to create videos, but may not have the creative experience or technical know-how required to do so.
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| CNBC: |
Apple launches a tool that shows how well people are social distancing, using anonymized data from Apple Maps, similar to efforts from Google — - Apple on Tuesday launched a new tool that shows how well people are following social distancing guidelines. — It gathers anonymous data …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Kit, an Apple Watch app, for one-tap communication with close friends via audio recording, emoji, location sharing, scribble, more — Facebook's internal R&D group has today launched a new app that lets you keep up with your close friends via your Apple Watch.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
OnePlus debuts $699 OnePlus 8, $899 OnePlus 8 Pro with high-refresh 6.55" and 6.78" AMOLED hole-punch screens, WiFi 6, on-screen fingerprint readers, more — As the world is in quarantine, smartphone companies aren't standing still and are still moving forward with their new product launches.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon will cut commission rates for its affiliate program starting April 21; amount of drop dependent on category, rates for grocery products dropping 5% to 1% — - Amazon on Tuesday told members of its affiliates program that it will cut commission rates beginning April 21.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
A court in France has reportedly given Amazon 24 hours to limit its customers' orders to just “essential” items or face fines of €1M per day — A court in Nanterre, France, has ruled that Amazon should greatly restrict orders in France in the coming weeks.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data: iPhone shipments jumped 19% YoY in March to 2.5M, while overall smartphone sales, including Android devices, fell ~22% to 21M — - China's phone market continued decline, official data show — Foxconn production back to normal levels in late March
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Reuters, AppleInsider, South China Morning Post, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iMore, MacRumors, and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @markgurman
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Cisco says it is launching a $2.5B financing program to let customers defer 95% of payments until 2021, as business operations move online during the pandemic — OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) on Tuesday launched a $2.5 billion financing program that lets …
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Tweets: @chuckrobbins, @cisco, and @patrickmoorhead
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Roku withdraws its full-year 2020 financial outlook, saying it expects Q1 revenue to be slightly higher after streaming hours grew 49% YoY in Q1; stock up 10%+ — - Roku said Monday that it was withdrawing its full-year 2020 financial outlook due to economic uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After a researcher finds 49 Chrome extensions posing as crypto wallet apps while stealing users' private keys and more, Google removes them from Web Store — The Chrome extensions were mimicking cryptocurrency wallet apps like Ledger, MyEtherWallet, Trezor, Electrum, and others, but …
Tweets: @andrewgjohnson
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft issues fixes for 15 “critical” and 93 “important” flaws, including four Windows zero-days, three of which it says have been actively exploited — Today is Microsoft's April 2020 Patch Tuesday, and with everything going on, it is going to be particularly stressful …
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Zero Day Initiative, Threatpost, Dark Reading, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
| CNBC: |
The Nasdaq closed up 3.95% on Tuesday, marking its first rise across four consecutive days since early Feb., as Amazon hit an all time high, closing up 5.28% — Investors will be looking at revenue guidance this earnings season, a big change from the past: Sarat Sethi
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CoinDesk, TechCrunch, Barron's Online, MacDailyNews, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @heradasha and @neoavatara
| TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google confirm contact tracing update will work on devices running iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play and say only health authorities can access API — Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …
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CNET, Reason, Wired, The Verge, Fast Company, CoinDesk, Washington Post, The Verge, CNBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Digital Trends, Yahoo Finance, Ubergizmo, MSPoweruser, Gizchina, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, Silicon Valley Business …, MacDailyNews, TechRadar.com, MediaNama, Android Central, iPhone Hacks, Neowin, Seeking Alpha, SlashGear, AppleInsider, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @farzad_md, @geoffreyfowler, @iethics, @jenn_elias, @winphankyle, @joannastern, and @davidbcollum
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube Music replaces “Hotlist” with new “Explore” tab, which has a “New albums and singles” section and “Moods & genres” section for finding playlists — From user channels to a reorganized Library, Google's primary music service …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
VC firm Lightspeed raises $4B across three funds: $890M and $1.83B for early and later stage funds, respectively, and a $1.5B fund for doubling down on winners — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Investor Bejul Somaia is used to flying from India to Silicon Valley on a monthly basis.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Two dozen US state AGs sent a letter to the White House requesting the administration pull blueprints for Defense Distributed's 3D-printed guns offline — Warns of ‘grave consequences’ for plastic firearms — Two dozen state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration to crack … Sponsor Posts
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