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Microsoft encourages Seattle area and Bay Area employees to work from home if possible through March 25th, asks sick employees to stay home — - People who can work from home in the two affected areas should do that, Microsoft said. — Microsoft said non-essential business travel …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter will begin testing “Fleets”, letting iOS and Android users make posts that disappear after 24 hours, in Brazil, finally using a Stories-like format — Twitter is testing its own version of Stories. The company announced today it will begin to trial a new sharing format called …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
In new App Store review guidelines, Apple now allows push notification advertising if users opt in, raises the quality bar on dating and “fortune telling” apps — Apple today updated its App Store review guidelines regarding some of the features introduced with iOS 13 …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Former Uber self-driving unit head Anthony Levandowski, a key figure in the Uber-Waymo trade secrets trial, ordered to pay $179M to Google over contract breach — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The former head of Uber Technologies Inc's self-driving technology unit must pay $179 million to Google …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google announces it has hired Sony game development leader Shannon Studstill to run a new Stadia Games and Entertainment studio in LA — Google announced that it has hired Sony game development leader Shannon Studstill to run a new Stadia Games and Entertainment studio in Playa Vista, California, in the Los Angeles area.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple retail employees say a memo to technical support staff noted iPhone repair parts and replacement phones would be in short supply for as long as 2-4 weeks — - Company re-opens nearly all of its retail locations in China — Coronavirus begins to strain Apple's global supply chain
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| Amy Castor / Decrypt: |
UK's FCA warns UK citizens against offers from crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, saying it lacks authorization to market financial products in the country — The Financial Conduct Authority cautions UK citizens to avoid the bitcoin derivatives platform. Bitmex is promoting its services without authorization, it says.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is testing its Messenger app for macOS, which was first announced last April, in several non-US markets, including France, Mexico, and Poland — At Facebook's 2019 F8 developer conference, the company announced plans to introduce desktop apps for its popular communications app Messenger.| Kurt Mackie / Redmond Channel Partner: |
Azure IoT and Cisco IoT form partnership to integrate Cisco Edge with Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, say the partnership will enable more edge computing scenarios — Microsoft and Cisco this week announced the “seamless integration” of the two companies' Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud products, enabling more edge computing scenarios.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Corellium, which was sued by Apple over its iOS virtualization software, demos Project Sandcastle, which uses checkra1n jailbreak to install Android on iPhone 7 — Ten years ago, David Wang pulled off a remarkable trick, installing Android on the first-generation iPhone.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out 4K gaming for Stadia on the web for Stadia Pro subscribers; until now 4K gameplay was limited to Chromecast Ultra and TVs — Google last month started fulfilling its Q1 2020 roadmap by rolling out its streaming service to Samsung, Asus, and Razer phones.
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| VICE: |
A look at Banjo, which offers Palantir-like tools to flag emergencies, crime, and more using AI and has a 5-year deal with Utah and access to surveillance data — The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and “public safety” …
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| Steven Overly / Politico: |
Federal judge rejects Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's suit against Google that claimed the brief suspension of her Ads account last summer violated her free speech rights — A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit in which Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Google of temporarily suspending … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
VSCO unveils Montage, an editing tool that lets users stack and layer multiple photos and videos to create a collage, as it continues to shift focus to video — VSCO, a popular photo editing app (and Gen Z meme), is continuing to shift its focus to video. Last month, the company finally gave … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Allies rally around Jack Dorsey as Elliott Management, reportedly with a ~4% stake in Twitter, puts pressure on the CEO, who may not survive the medium term — “The most feared investor in America” has Twitter's CEO in his sights — Were there not a deadly coronavirus spreading across the globe …
Tweets: @steelhouse, @mslopatto, and @hkanji
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google Assistant can now be asked to read webpages or Android app content aloud, launching with support for 42 different languages — Google Assistant is able to read web pages or and news articles on Android devices worldwide today, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat.
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| Bloomberg: |
OYO Hotels CEO Ritesh Agarwal says OYO will cut ~17% of its 30k global staff to ~25k; sources: OYO intends to fire “about half” of its full-time staff in China — - The startup is now firing 30% of its staff, net, in China — Signs of trouble growing at one of India's biggest startups| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Buenos Aires has had live facial recognition in its subway systems for about a year, which has caused wrongful detentions, even as politicians praise the system — July 2019, Guillermo Federico Ibarrola was heading home on the subway when he was stopped by Buenos Aires police.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
HPE partners with AMD to use its chips in HPE's $600M US DOE supercomputer contract announced last August to optimize AI and ML for nuclear weapons support — The system, which will help protect the US nuclear stockpile, will deliver performance greater than two exaflops, HPE now says …
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