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Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account — - Alphabet's Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it said it would.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
An overview of the COVID-19-related work Google is doing, and how it falls far short of the comprehensive testing system implied by President Trump on Friday — ‘Neither one of the announcements were ready for prime time,’ one official told the Washington Post
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Apple fined €1.1B by French antitrust authorities for anticompetitive behavior within its distribution networks; Apple says it will appeal — Apple was fined 1.1 billion euros ($1.23 billion) for anti-competitive behavior Monday by the French antitrust authorities.| The Intercept: |
Leaked documents: TikTok told moderators to suppress posts deemed too “ugly”, poor, or disabled, and censor political speech in livestreams, to attract users — The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world …
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TikTok says it will stop using ~100 moderators it had in China to monitor overseas content and shift that work to those outside China — The popular short-video app said it would halt using China-based moderators to monitor overseas content and shift that work to those outside of China.
| Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: |
Microsoft details Xbox Series X specs: custom 8-core 3.8GHz AMD Zen 2 CPU, custom 1.825GHz AMD RNDA 2 GPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD with expansion card support — This is it. After months of teaser trailers, blog posts and even the occasional leak, we can finally reveal firm … | Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
WSJ: some Apple employees still work from HQ due to restrictions on external access to some systems and prohibitions on unreleased products from leaving campus — The process of tech companies sending thousands of employees home amid the coronavirus crisis has been messy, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Beats announces $149 Powerbeats with 15 hours of battery life, Apple's H1 chip for quick pairing, and IPX4 rating for water resistance, available March 18 — They've already leaked plenty and Walmart even put them on shelves before an official announcement, but now Apple's Beats brand is launching the new Powerbeats 4 earbuds.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US Department of Health and Human Services suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night, apparently aimed at slowing coronavirus response — The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation's response …
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| Noam Cohen / Wired: |
A look at WikiProject Medicine, a collection of ~35,000 English Wikipedia articles checked rigorously by ~150 editors with public health and medical expertise — A group of hawk-eyed experts operate on a special track to monitor medical information on the site.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says 1B devices are now running Windows 10, which includes PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles, and HoloLens — Microsoft's original milestone has been reached — Microsoft is revealing today that 1 billion active machines are now running Windows 10.
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
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