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Sources: the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), scheduled for early June as a three-day event, will be canceled due to COVID-19 concerns — Massive game-announcement event won't happen for the first time since 1996. — E3 2020 as we know it is over.
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10 — New York (CNN Business)Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to CNN.
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| Maya Kosoff / Marker: |
How some high-profile direct-to-consumer startups have struggled to make their economics work amid rising customer acquisition costs — How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry's, and Casper
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Source: Google plans to launch a second-gen Chromecast Ultra dongle later this year, based on Android TV, with 4K HDR support and a standalone remote — According to a reliable source familiar with the company's plans, Google is planning to launch a second-generation Chromecast Ultra this year based on Android TV.
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| Neha Malara / Reuters: |
TikTok to launch a Transparency Center in LA, to let external experts evaluate its content moderation, to be followed by providing insights into its source code — (Reuters) - Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it worked with partners in 35 countries to take down the Necurs botnet, one of the largest known to date, infecting 9M+ computers worldwide — Microsoft and partners in 35 countries move to bring down Necurs, today's largest malware botnet. — Microsoft announced today …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL — Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. — More than a decade ago …
Tweets: @newsycbot, @markcallaghandb, @grimmelm, and @binarybits
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips — It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances.
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| Ian Austen / New York Times: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs scales back Toronto smart city project prompted by local privacy critics, who argue it exploits people's data from the physical world — Faced with an array of opponents for its sensor-laden city of tomorrow in Toronto, a Google sibling has dramatically dialed back plans.| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Google's wearable Jacquard sensor, installed into the insole of a shoe, uses machine learning to scrutinize a soccer player's footwork in real time — How powerful is your kick? Did you pass effectively? The latest Jacquard wearable uses machine learning to scrutinize a player's footwork in real time.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: Intel CPUs vulnerable to new “LVI” attacks, which let attackers inject and execute code inside the CPU, theoretically even from a site's JavaScript — Researchers say Intel processors will need another round of silicon chip re-designs to protect against new attack.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Report: 83% of internet-connected medical imaging devices run on outdated operating systems, up 56% since 2018 due to the end of Windows 7 support in Jan. — Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 security division said medical equipment is outdated and vulnerable to hacker attacks and health care organizations …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
A look at EARN IT Act, a bipartisan bill to make firms earn Section 230 protections by meeting standards that reduce child exploitation but weaken data privacy — Backers of the EARN IT Act focus on protecting children from being exploited, but security experts say the bill actually chips away at your encrypted messages.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked code: Apple is developing a new augmented reality app for iOS 14 codenamed Gobi and is testing AR integrations with Apple Stores and Starbucks — Apple is developing a new app as part of its work on iOS 14. The new app, codenamed Gobi, will allow users to get more information …
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Fast Company, The Sun, BGR, Gizchina, Mobile AR News, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, iDownloadBlog.com, Cord Cutters News, Macworld, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, CNET, and 9to5Mac
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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