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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will not host an in-person I/O event this year, due to coronavirus fears, and will instead offer a series of online events — Following a string of other tech cancellations in recent days, Google just announced that it will not host an in-person I/O 2020 over coronavirus concerns.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organizers say the conference is proceeding as planned — Twitter pulled out earlier today — Facebook has pulled out of the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, TX, according to a company statement given to Business Insider.
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Centers for Disease Control …, SXSW, ZDNet, The Verge, ZDNet, Mashable, Mercury News, Silicon Valley Business …, Android Authority, TechRepublic, Business Insider, Crunchbase News, TechRadar.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Axios, Geek.com, TechSpot, Silicon Republic, International Business Times, and Input
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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
Twitter says it strongly encourages its 4,800+ employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus, the first major US company to do so — Twitter on Monday became the first major U.S. corporation to strongly encourage its employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus.
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Twitter, AppleInsider, Vox, Gizmodo, The Verge, Wccftech, VentureBeat, KnowTechie, Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, CNBC, Digital Trends, Newser, Protocol, BBC, Bloomberg, and CNET
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Citing coronavirus concerns, Apple restricts employee travel to Italy and South Korea, following its similar restrictions for China — - Company sends memo to employees about Covid-19 response — Sick employees told to take leave; virtual meetings encouraged
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @markgurman
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Robinhood again suffered a “major outage” on Tuesday, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will reach out to users about compensation “case by case” — - Robinhood saw a second day of glitches that kept clients from trading as markets rebounded.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood says recent outages were caused by an “unprecedented load” on its system, will waive Gold customers' fee for 3 months, ~$15, as initial compensation — It wasn't the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood's massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks.
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Under the Hood, The Block, and Yahoo Finance
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is working on six products with mini-LED tech including an iMac Pro refresh for Q4 '20, a 7.9" iPad mini coming in 2020, and a 14.1" MacBook Pro — Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed by the coronavirus …
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Tweets: @themetris, @pwthornton, @uptowngarrett, and @jsnell
| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt discovers a bug in its Certification Authority Authorization code, meaning affected users need to manually force-renew certs to avoid downtime — Let's Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime. — On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced …
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Let's Encrypt Community …, Let's Encrypt Community …, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Wordfence, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, and Neowin
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| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook plans to use digital versions of government-backed currencies along with its Libra token for its Calibra wallet when it is launched in October — Facebook is scaling back its ambitious plan to upend the global financial system with a new digital currency.
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Bloomberg, Decrypt, Input, Ars Technica, BBC, CNET, The Verge, Reuters, The Block, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, and Seeking Alpha
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says a dark mode will become available for iOS and Android users today, after months of testing, on by default for users with system dark mode enabled — Facebook finally says hello to darkness — WhatsApp is finally getting a new dark mode on iOS and Android today.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Eden buys Managed by Q, a workplace management competitor, from WeWork for $25M cash, after WeWork bought Q for $220M last year — Managed by Q co-founder Dan Teran had a plan. After selling his office management company to WeWork last year for a tidy $220 million … | Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will speed up same-day delivery for Prime members in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas thanks to newly built smaller warehouses — Amazon today unveiled its latest initiative to speed up delivery times on millions of items for its growing cadre of Prime members.
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The Amazon Blog, Reuters, Business Insider, CNET, MSPoweruser, The Verge, ZDNet, SlashGear, TechSpot, Yahoo Finance, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Neowin, TechCrunch, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @libertyrpf
| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Brookings study: only 10 US cities have grown their share of tech jobs since 2010, resulting in less diversity for companies and no economic windfall elsewhere — Austin is one the few cities to see substantial growth in its share of tech workers. Rick Kern/WireImage — Where tech jobs go, so does wealth.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hulu makes its live TV service available on the PS4, following Sony's decision to shut down their PlayStation Vue service in January — More live TV options come to Sony's gaming console — Hulu is bringing its live TV service, which is separate from its standalone on-demand streaming app … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Honeywell says it will launch a quantum computer within three months with a quantum volume of at least 64, making it the world's most powerful quantum computer — Under Honeywell's quantum plans, customers will connect directly to systems housed by the company.
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Honeywell, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CNET, Protocol, TechRadar.com, Engadget, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, Gizmodo, Quantum Computing …, SiliconANGLE, The Register, New Scientist, Yahoo Finance, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @cccalum
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Legal tech startup Atrium is shutting down, laying off 100+ employees; CEO Justin Kan says Atrium failed to be more efficient than a traditional law firm — Justin Kan's hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm.| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q1 revenue of $6.9B, down 8% YoY, missing analyst expectations of $7.21B, on weak compute revenue of $3B, down ~16% YoY; stock down ~5% after hours — - Company maintains its fiscal year 2020 profit forecast — Quarterly revenue fell 8% to $6.95 billion from a year earlier
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Business Wire, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and ZDNet
| Adrian Chen / New York Times: |
Profile of Hideo Kojima, a gaming industry legend known for highly anticipated game franchises like Metal Gear Solid, and his latest work, Death Stranding — He's an auteur whose bizarre creations — the Metal Gear Solid series and, most recently, Death Stranding — have become huge blockbusters.
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The Verge. Tweets: @renan, @christophran, @nytmag, @adrianchen, @max_read, @somebadideas, and @somebadideas
| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Interviews with dozens of people shed light on how Brad Parscale, a political newcomer, leveraged Facebook and its ad platform to help Trump win in 2016 — Brad Parscale used social media to sway the 2016 election. He's poised to do it again. — In September, at a resort hotel in the Coachella Valley …
Tweets: @frankluntz, @andrewmarantz, @lainnafader, @adamweinstein, and @michaelluo
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Prescription drug companies are ramping up Facebook ads, often accessing user data via loopholes, with the sector's mobile spend roughly tripling in two years — Pharmaceutical companies are ramping up their spending on social media, triggering some patient advocate concerns about privacy| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Five, formerly FiveAI, a UK-based startup that provides software for self-driving vehicles, raises $41M Series B, bringing total raised to $77M — We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the complexity of getting to that point …
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Tech.eu and VentureBeat
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
In an email to staff, Amazon says an employee at its Seattle headquarters has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the affected employee remains in quarantine — An Amazon employee at the company's Seattle headquarters has tested positive for the novel coronavirus spreading across the country … Sponsor Posts
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