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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Go 2 with a bigger 10.5-inch display and more powerful Intel processors in higher-end models, coming May 12, starting at $400 — The smaller Surface gets a big hardware bump — Microsoft's smallest Surface tablet is getting some important hardware upgrades today in the form of the Surface Go 2.
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @tomwarren, and @martinsfp
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft debuts 13.5-inch and 15-inch Surface Book 3 laptops with 10th-gen quad-core Intel CPUs, new NVIDIA GPUs, available May 21 from $1,600 and $2,300 — With the Surface Book 2, Microsoft proved it could take on the MacBook Pro directly with a powerful and genuinely innovative PC notebook.
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| Microsoft Devices Blog: |
Microsoft announces $250 Surface Headphones 2 with better sound and battery, arriving on May 12, and says its Surface Buds will ship on the same day for $200 — Available for preorder today, new Surface devices and accessories are designed to help you work, learn, connect and play from anywhere
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Tweets: @panos_panay, @jgownder, @baxiabhishek, @surface, @baxiabhishek, @ow, and @patrickmoorhead
| New York Times: |
Facebook's Oversight Board co-chairs announce its first 16 members, out of a total of 20 members, who will oversee challenging content issues — Introducing the company's independent oversight board. — The authors are co-chairs of Facebook's oversight board.
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The Verge, Wired, CNN, The Guardian, Axios, Reuters, Reuters, Politico, CNBC, Fortune, OneZero, and About Facebook
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber says it will lay off 3,700 employees, or ~14% of its workforce, as it has been hit hard by the pandemic; CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will forgo his base salary — Uber announced Wednesday that it will lay off 3,700 employees. The cuts to its customer support and recruiting teams represent …
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The Next Web, Axios, Ars Technica, ZDNet, CNET, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, Electrek, The Daily Dot, Engadget, and NBC Bay Area
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| Ellen Hammett / Marketing Week: |
Study: half of the money brands invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers; 15% of the money is unattributable to supply chain players — A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers …
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Financial Times, The Media Nut, ISBA, ISBA, Mediatel News, and ISBA
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Sources: Google to release a Fire TV-like Android TV dongle with a new content-centric UI in the coming months, likely extending its Nest brand to the product — Google is set to introduce an Android TV streaming device in the coming months, a reimagined dongle with a new user interface …
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Android Police, Thurrott, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, Droid Life, Neowin, Android Authority, Android Central, and Engadget. Tweets: @lordravenscraft
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Loon partners with AT&T to extend the cellular network coverage using its balloons globally in case of disasters — Alphabet-owned Loon, the company focused on providing connectivity via high-altitude, stratosphere skimming balloons that can act as on-demand, deployable cell towers …
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Loon Blog, The Verge, 9to5Google, ZDNet, FierceWireless, and Engadget
| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Facebook tries again to offer “free” mobile web access with data limits, partnering with telecoms in Peru to offer a Discover app that lets users visit any site — Remember Free Basics? Facebook's ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time.
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Facebook Technology, The Verge, CNET, World Wide Web Foundation, Engadget, TechCrunch, and The Hacker News
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NFC Forum unveils its Wireless Charging Specification, allowing 1 watt charging for smaller devices — It might soon be much easier to buy a smartphone that can charge small devices like earbuds or smartwatches. The NFC Forum, responsible for near-field communications tech, has unveiled the Wireless Charging Specification (WLC).
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee makes a rare apology, saying he will not hand over management of the company to his children, and vows to protect labor rights — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, embroiled in a bribery scandal, on Wednesday made a rare apology …
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Gizmodo, CNN, The Korea Herald, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Financial Times, Engadget, Bloomberg, and New York Times
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Q&A with Steven Sinofsky on his upcoming memoir that chronicles his time at Microsoft, as he reflects on how the company fought the ILOVEYOU virus 20 years ago — On the 20th anniversary of the unleashing of the ILOVEYOU virus—which infected millions of PCs worldwide …
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ZDNet, Fast Company, OnMSFT.com, and Schneier on Security
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple SVP Craig Federighi about the iPadOS cursor, a significant change to the pointer paradigm, and the decisions Apple made to get there — Apple SVP Craig Federighi talks about the iPad's new cursor and Magic Keyboard — Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Letter from Brian Chesky to Airbnb employees says the company is laying off 1,900, or ~25% of its workforce, and expects a 2020 revenue decline of 50% YoY — Airbnb is laying off a quarter of its staff. — Airbnb, seen until recently as one of Silicon Valley's most financially secure unicorns, is laying off a quarter of its staff.
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Airbnb Newsroom, TechCrunch, Financial Times, CNBC, The Guardian, The Next Web, Mashable, ZDNet, The Overspill, Pandaily, Silicon Republic, and SiliconANGLE
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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Sources: Magic Leap is in talks to raise $100M in funding from a major health company after laying off around half of its workforce — - Magic Leap is turning to a “major” health care company to raise money, according to an internal memo obtained by The Information.
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| Bloomberg: |
Spotify CEO expects Apple to “open up” its platform more to 3rd-party apps, after Spotify's antitrust complaint with the EU, but sees it as a long-term process — - Apple plans to let other music services integrate with HomePod — Ek says ‘steps to go before’ Apple is open and fair platform
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @lucas_shaw, @baekdal, @elkmovie, @andrewornot, and @markgurman
| Shannon Liao / CNN: |
Activision Blizzard CEO says people may turn to free mobile games during the pandemic, after the company beat Q1 expectations with sales of $1.52B, up 21% YoY — New York (CNN Business)While much of the economy is hurting during the pandemic, video games are thriving.| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Shopify tops estimates with Q1 revenue of $470M, up 47% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $17.4B, up 46% YoY — - First-quarter revenue jumped 47% to $470 million from 2019 — Gross merchandise volume soared 46% to $17.4 billion — Shopify Inc. reported first-quarter revenue …
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ZDNet, BetaKit, BetaKit, Protocol, Globe and Mail, Reuters, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @thestalwart, @theabridgedzach, @bloombergca, @mdudas, @sarthakgh, @bradelliottsa, and @alex
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
With gyms closed, sales of the $2,245 Peloton connected smart bike have surged; Peloton's stock has risen 86% since mid-March, valuing the company at $10B — With gyms closed and nowhere to go, more people are shelling out $2,245 for the workout bike. — Lauren Allbright, a teacher …
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @eringriffith, @aaronwall, and @kerrymflynn
| Alex Davies / Wired: |
Profile of Ford-backed Argo AI and its CEO Bryan Salesky, who previously worked at CMU's Robotics Institute and as a Google hardware lead for self-driving cars — Meet Brian Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving.
Tweets: @wired
| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Google, Gates Foundation, and others form the Mojaloop Foundation, which will develop an open source digital payments platform for developing countries — For more than a decade, Kenyans from the bustling capital of Nairobi to far-flung farms have had access to a digital payments service that was ahead of its time.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match says Tinder will launch in-app one-on-one video chats later this year, as growth falls during the pandemic, although most details are TBA — A big undertaking for one of the world's largest dating apps — Tinder is going to launch its own in-app, one-on-one video chats later this year.
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TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider, Reuters, and Engadget
Tweets: @antoniogm, @caseynewton, @ashleyrcarman, and @panzer
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo says it will sell Lidar-equipped self-driving cars to consumers starting in 2022 using Lidar startup Luminar's cheaper sensors — Volvo's new platform will include high-powered laser sensors — an industry rarity — Most new cars sold today include a bevy of sensors such as cameras … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces new features, including Codespaces, a free cloud-based developer environment now in beta that's based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor — Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week.
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VentureBeat, ZDNet, ZDNet, The GitHub Blog, and Wired
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Data Protection Board publishes updated guidelines arguing that scrolling and “cookie walls”, which block users from content, don't constitute consent — You can't make access to your website's content dependant on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’.Sponsor Posts
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