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| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences, accounting for consumer traits like body type, skin tone, location, socioeconomic class, age, and poses — Facebook today announced improvements to the shopping experiences across its platform, including Facebook Shops …
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Facebook Technology, Facebook AI, Engadget, Fortune, Up News Info, Vox, and AdExchanger
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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
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| 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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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments — The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.| 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 … | BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of ~9M passengers were stolen; some payment info also leaked; it learned of the attack in January — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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Investis Digital, The Guardian, Graham Cluley, Bloomberg, The Register, Tom's Guide, CyberScoop, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @weldpond, @petefirman, @dvatw, @ccleaner, @samnewman, @mikko, and @joetidy
| 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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Tweets: @aprilaser, @jerrycap, @loudmouthjulia, @davidclinchnews, @rdrv3, @backlon, and @reckless
| 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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Microsoft 365 Blog, TechCrunch, Laptop Mag, ZDNet, Windows Central, PCWorld, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @tomwarren, @hamburger, @jorilallo, @anaisbetts, @haroonchoudery, and @tomwarren
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Synapse Link, an enterprise service that uses an approach called “hybrid transaction/analytical processing” to analyze data more quickly — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy, put people on shifts, and require temperature checks and masks when it reopens workplaces in July — - Company plans to put employees on shifts to reduce numbers — Grab-and-go meals, temperature checks, updated shuttles coming
Tweets: @kurtwagner8
| 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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Tweets: @joerogan, @yay_yee, @blakeir, @lucas_shaw, @kaibrach, @erockradio, @reckless, @mgsiegler, @sarafischer, @benyt, @jasonrmcintyre, @desparobinson, @sbyrnes, @greentoethegod, @beirutspring, @dylanbyers, @ryanlawler, @yay_yee, @nongaap, @news_maker, @priaribi, @ow, @mdudas, @ischafer, @perreau, @spotifynews, @jessesingal, @rizzn, @cernovich, @wolfejosh, @b_yousra, @cernovich, @ericrweinstein, @marcoarment, @benthompson, @joshconstine, @bzamayo, @evoterra, @kantrowitz, @benyt, @mhbergen, @baxiabhishek, @kfcbarstool, and @lesliemac
| 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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Microsoft Blog, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Forrester, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead and @gtzi
| 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 … | Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Chinese fitness app Keep raises $80M Series E at a $1B valuation led by Jeneration Capital Management — Chinese fitness app Keep has become the country's first sports tech startup to achieve a $1 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series E funding round led …
Tweets: @ruima
| 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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Crystal Blockchain Analytics …, CoinDesk, and CoinSpice
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $60M led by B Capital; source: startup valued at ~$300M — Khatabook, a startup that is helping small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept payments online with an app …
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| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out| 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
Tweets: @cherubbrat, @racebaitr, @rizzn, and @lauraagustin
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
The SD Association unveils new SD 8.0 spec, with SD Express card speeds reaching 3940 MB/s with PCIe 4.0 support, roughly four times the speed of current cards — As resolutions and file sizes continue to grow, it's important for storage —especially removable storage—to keep up …
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Business Wire, The Verge, BetaNews, and Engadget
| 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 and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Tweets: @gabrielazanfir, @daphnehk, @privacyint, @fortunemagazine, @granick, and @markard_chair
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Productivity tool Notion opens up its free tier to allow for the creation of unlimited notes and blocks — There's never been a better time to check out the collaborative note-taking app — Notion, the workspace and note-taking app, just became much more appealing to individual users.
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