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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, .NET Blog, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Microsoft Docs, Thurrott, OnMSFT.com, Liliputing, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, and WinBuzzer
Tweets: @withinrafael, @epro, @tomwarren, @dotnet, @codemillmatt, @jeremydmiller, @jamesmontemagno, @qmatteoq, @ow, @epro, @dcseifert, and @panos_panay
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Package Manager, native to Windows 10, letting users install software from the command line without visiting vendor sites or the Store — Microsoft is adding a built-in package manager to Windows 10. The company today announced Windows Package Manager at Build 2020 …
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CNET, The Verge, Windows Command Line, ZDNet, PCWorld, Petri, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, and Liliputing
Tweets: @tomwarren and @whatthebit
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is improving its Windows Subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, as its Terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0 — Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration — Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux …
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Windows Command Line, VentureBeat, OnMSFT.com, and Engadget
Tweets: @tomwarren, @backlon, @richturn_ms, @tobi_lehman, and @mcclure111
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @facebook, @sameer_singh17, @mosseri, @atharproject, @kurtwagner8, @sethmcguire, @brij, @mdudas, @facebook, @marcusanz, @chrismessina, @richlightshed, @kurtwagner8, and @wongmjane. Thanks:@sal19
| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
Sony and Microsoft announce partnership to embed Microsoft Azure AI capabilities onto Sony's new image sensor with built-in AI that was announced last week — Sony's image sensor will have Microsoft Azure artificial intelligence capabilities. — Sony and Microsoft have joined together …
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Microsoft, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, ExtremeTech, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, BetaNews, OnMSFT.com, and Neowin. Tweets: @zhugeex
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV+ to build a back catalog; as of February it had ~10M subscribers but only half actively used it — - Company wants to create back catalog to complement originals — TV+, launched in November, had 10 million sign-ups by February
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes — A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
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| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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NBC News, The Verge, Android Authority, 9to5Google, CNET, CNBC, Android Central, Droid Life, and The Next Web
Tweets: @davidclinchnews, @rdrv3, @backlon, and @reckless
| BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of 9M passengers were stolen and credit card details of 2,208 customers were accessed — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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Tweets: @weldpond, @petefirman, @ccleaner, @mikko, @joetidy, and @osxreverser
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, Laptop Mag, Windows Central, PCWorld, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, Business Insider, OnMSFT.com, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @tomwarren, @jorilallo, and @tomwarren
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung announces a 50-megapixel smartphone sensor promising faster “DSLR-level auto-focus speeds” and better low-light image quality — Samsung has unveiled a new smartphone sensor showing that more megapixels may not always be better. The ISOCELL GN1 is “only” a 50-megapixel sensor …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, XDA Developers, The Verge, ExtremeTech, TechSpot, Mashable, 9to5Google, Android Central, Firstpost Tech, Android Authority, Neowin, Pocketnow, and SamMobile. Tweets: @stanhoraczek
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features — Google today launched Chrome 83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 83 includes redesigned safety and privacy settings …
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @googlechrome, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
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CNET, The Verge, Microsoft Tech Community …, Windows Central, Thurrott, and Engadget
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate — Microsoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum.
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flow.microsoft.com, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, TechCrunch, ZDNet, CNBC, Forrester, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Scott Nover / Adweek: |
Google Preferred to be replaced by YouTube Select, a global offering for premium advertisers with a package specifically for YouTube content on connected TVs — Called YouTube Select, it includes connected TV usage for the first time — Key Insight: — The offering will help Google monetize …
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TechCrunch, The Keyword, Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Neowin, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @ytadvertisers and @adweek
| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it will not “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry” — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out — After a year of weathering criticism …
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WRAL TechWire. Tweets: @mer__edith, @jimmylevendia, @alixtrot, @willoremus, @wokyleeks, @climatekeith, @ozm, @bcmerchant, @natashanyt, and @organizejs
| EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone: |
Some sex workers on OnlyFans say they are being pushed out in favor of mainstream celebrities and influencers, as the site is scrutinized amid SESTA/FOSTA laws — As the site's popularity booms during our current health crisis, some worry their NSFW content will be purged
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identity of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Event software startup Bevy.com raises $15M Series B as it shifts gears to power virtual events, says Duolingo has hosted 1,000 events with it in past six weeks — This might seem like the worst time to be building an event software business, but it seems to be working for Bevy.com … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems — Microsoft announced the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems, during its Build 2020 online conference.| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal — In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure.
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Bundesverfassungsgericht. Tweets: @granick, @privacyint, @markard_chair, @daphnehk, @gabrielazanfir, @fborgesius, @jonathandunnett, and @senficon
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Inside Amazon's biggest COVID-19 warehouse outbreak in northeastern Pennsylvania, where local lawmakers believe over 100 workers have contracted the disease — A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon's others after missing early opportunities to protect workers.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Cloud for Healthcare, a suite of telehealth tools including a Healthcare Bot Service and patient engagement portals, is now in public preview — At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare.
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TechCrunch, CNET, Microsoft Industry Blogs, Bloomberg, CNET, WinBuzzer, and Neowin
| Mara Hvistendahl / Wired: |
Profile of Chinese voice computing company iFlytek, which makes AI-based apps for consumers and the Chinese government that critics say aid surveillance efforts — Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users.
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @wired, @shanthikalathil, and @wadhwa
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Bitfury: share of bitcoin sent to mixers by darknet entities rose to 20% in Q1 2020, up from 1% in Q1 2019 — The use of bitcoin mixing services by darknet entities is growing, according to a new report by Bitfury's crypto analytics unit Crystal Blockchain.
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