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Verizon says it will buy videoconferencing company Blue Jeans Network, source says for less than $500M — Acquisition comes as the coronavirus spurs unprecedented work-from-home arrangements — Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to buy videoconferencing company Blue Jeans Network Inc. …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is developing at least two over-ear wireless headphone variants, with swappable magnetic ear cups and headbands, to augment its AirPods business — - Over-ear headphones customizable via magnetic attachments — Entering a category led by own Beats brand, Bose and Sony
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Sources: Sony plans to limit its initial PlayStation 5 production run in its first year partly because it expects lower demand due to a higher launch price — - Console still on track for year-end launch despite Covid-19 — Biggest impact from virus so far seen on unveiling timeline
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will notify users who have liked, commented, or reacted to coronavirus misinformation and guide them to WHO resources — Facebook will begin informing people who have engaged with coronavirus misinformation on its main Facebook app, the company announced Thursday.
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Libra scales back ambitions of launching a global currency and will now focus on creating a traditional payment network with coins tied to local currencies — After months of criticism, the cryptocurrency is moving ahead with significant revisions. — OAKLAND, Calif. …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Stripe adds $600M extension to its $250M Series G at a $36B valuation from existing investors, including a16z, GV, and Sequoia, in its largest funding to date — Digital payments platform Stripe has raised $600 million in new funding and is now valued at nearly $36 billion, co-founder and president John Collison tells Axios.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
HP refreshes its Envy laptop range, including a redesigned 13-inch model with 10th-gen i7, starting at $1,000, and an updated 15-inch model from $1,350 — Also, AMD's Zen 2 CPUs are in the new Envy x360, starting at just $700 — Today, HP announced several new laptops in its Envy lineup …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok lets parents set restrictions on their kids' accounts like limiting screen time, disabling DMs, and restricting content, and disables DMs for under-16s — They can set screen time limits, disable DMs, and restrict content — TikTok is amping up its parental controls today …
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is redesigning its website to get customers to put fewer items in their carts while it contends with an immense surge in order volumes — Retailer cancels Mother's Day promotions, uses other tools to limit strain of order surge — Amazon.com Inc. is retooling its website … | Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
EU issues guidelines to make COVID-19 contact tracing apps interoperable and says it will scrutinize Google and Apple's proposed APIs to ensure compatibility — - Bloc set common approach on tracking apps to exit lockdowns — Apple, Google announced new contact-tracing tech last week
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
GoPro says it's laying off 200 employees, or ~20% of its staff, and aims to reduce expenses by ~$100M by switching mostly to a direct-to-consumer model — GoPro has announced that it will lay off 200 employees or around 20 percent of its workforce due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
In his annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos outlined the steps Amazon is taking to curb the coronavirus, including regular testing for all staff globally — Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said the online retail giant is developing Covid-19 testing capabilities …
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| Sebastiaan de With / Halide: |
An in-depth analysis of the 2020 iPad Pro's cameras and the mechanism behind its lidar sensor, aided by a proof of concept app to show the sensor's potential — Two weeks ago, Apple dropped a new iPad Pro into our lives via their website. One of its headline features? A brand new camera array.| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
In an internal email, Sundar Pichai tells Alphabet employees that the company will slow the pace of hiring for the rest of 2020 as it re-evaluates investments — - Company is ‘recalibrating’ spending on data centers, servers — Covid-19 crisis is affecting richest Silicon Valley businesses
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple says macOS 10.15.5 will include a battery management tool for MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3 that manages battery life by analyzing the battery's temperature — The way MacBook batteries charge is about to change. Apple has released a new developer preview of macOS Catalina 10.15.5 …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple announces a new iPhone SE with a 4.7" display, A13, Touch ID, 12MP camera with portrait mode, 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB storage from $399, shipping April 24 — It looks like an iPhone 8, but it has more modern specs — Apple has officially announced the new iPhone SE …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google will tighten Play Store rules from June 16 to stop Android app subscription scams, requiring clear information on free trials and ways to cancel them — Clearer information about free trials and subscription costs — Google has announced a series of new policies to make Android's … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Samsung to use Xilinx's Versal ACAP chips, which optimize beamforming tech, for its 5G commercial deployments, with first Versal ACAP devices available in Q4 — Samsung Electronics and programmable chip maker Xilinx have teamed up to make chips that can serve as the key processing technology …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google says Gmail business and education users can now directly take video calls on Meet, with a new Zoom-like layout, noise filtering, and more coming later — OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.com to directly take calls … | Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
Free Now, the ride-hailing service run by Daimler and BMW, announces a restructuring, with possible job cuts, and says it plans to merge with French app Kapten — PARIS (Reuters) - The ‘FREE NOW’ taxi ride-hailing service run by Daimler and BMW announced on Thursday a corporate restructuring …
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Bridgecrew, which makes automated cloud security tools for engineers, raises $14M Series A led by Battery Ventures — In today's grim economic climate, companies are looking for ways to automate wherever they can. Bridgecrew, an early-stage startup that makes automated cloud security tooling aimed … | Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico: |
US DOD's report could not “definitively determine” whether the White House intervened in $10B JEDI contract as officials were barred from answering questions — The Pentagon's inspector general “could not definitively determine” whether the White House influenced the procurement process …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Pastebin, a popular destination for hackers, quietly removed a scraping API, frustrating researchers and making it harder to search for data breaches and more — The most famous paste site, used by hackers of all stripes to host lists of stolen passwords, announcements of data breaches …
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