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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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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon says a manager at a facility in California died of COVID-19 on March 31, its first warehouse worker death; Amazon claims worker contracted virus offsite — A worker at an Amazon facility in California has died after contracting covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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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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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
OnePlus 8 review: has great battery life and solid performance with a 90Hz display, but camera could be better and it lacks wireless charging and an IP rating — The traditional strengths, plus the traditional omissions — Video by Alix Diaconis and Vjeran Pavic
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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: |
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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| 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: |
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.| 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.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Nest will temporarily reduce the recording quality of its security cameras by default to reduce bandwidth impact amid COVID-19, users can easily revert change — Google is temporarily dropping Nest camera recording quality and bandwidth over the next few days in an attempt to reduce strain on ISPs and the internet in general.| 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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| 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 …
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| 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| 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 … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft issues fixes for 15 “critical” and 93 “important” flaws, including three Windows zero-days — Today is Microsoft's April 2020 Patch Tuesday, and with everything going on, it is going to be particularly stressful for Windows administrators, so be especially nice to them today.
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| 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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Amazon says it's appealing a French court order to limit its customers' orders to “essential” items or face fines of €1M/day, a move that suspends the ruling — - Company ordered by court to conduct evaluation of virus risks — Appeal would suspend order to sell only key items in France
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| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
Folding@Home, a ~20 year-old distributed computing project aiding scientific research, has seen a surge in users, breaking an exaFLOP of compute amid COVID-19 — Folding@Home had settled into a low-profile niche. Then came COVID-19. — Almost 20 years ago, faculty in the chemistry department … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
GAO report highlights shortcomings in the Pentagon's ongoing cybersecurity efforts, with DOD's initiatives rarely completing goals and lacking status updates — Five years ago, the Department of Defense set dozens of security hygiene goals. A new report finds that it has abandoned or lost track of most of them.Sponsor Posts
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