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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video say they will reduce their streaming quality in EU to reduce traffic on the network, as millions are confined at home — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Friday it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
After canceling Google I/O's in-person event in early March, Google now says it will “not be holding an I/O event in any capacity this year” — Google earlier this month announced that it was not hosting a physical developer conference in light of coronavirus.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A day with the new MacBook Air: delightfully close to perfection and settles all the issues with keyboard, price, and performance, but its camera still stinks — We waited a long time for a retina MacBook Air. When we finally got it back in November 2018, it was worth waiting for.
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| Amber Neely / AppleInsider: |
Study: using touch on Apple CarPlay or Android Auto impairs driver reaction times by 50%+, vs. 35% for texting-while-driving and 46% for hand-held phone calls — U.K. based road safety charity IAM RoadSmart has released a study showing how in-vehicle infotainment systems …
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| CNBC: |
AWS commits $20M and launches a diagnostics development unit, with 35 partner orgs, to accelerate research to find a faster, more affordable test for COVID-19 — - Amazon is launching a diagnostics development unit through its cloud unit, AWS. — The idea is to back researchers with funds …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube unveils a COVID-19 “news shelf” on its homepage in 16 countries with verified content from authoritative news sources and health officials — Pulling from authoritative sources — YouTube will introduce a new row of verified videos to its homepage for anyone trying … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yelp commits $25M to local restaurants in waived fees and free services as its data shows US consumer interest in restaurants fell by 54% over the past week — Yelp announced this morning that it's making a number of changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it is internally testing a Snapchat-like ephemeral feature that clears chat messages after all members have viewed the thread and closed it — Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat's most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn't already cloned.
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| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Storj Labs launches a blockchain-based decentralized cloud storage service for enterprises at 50% lower pricing than AWS to securely store files and documents — Decentralized storage provider Storj Labs says its blockchain-based cloud service is now available for businesses and individuals to securely store files and documents.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's supply chain still disrupted by COVID-19-related shutdowns in countries like Malaysia; 5G iPhones still expected to launch by fall — - Virus responses in Malaysia, U.S., Europe disrupt suppliers — 5G iPhone currently still on schedule, but timeline could slip
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
WHO debuts a messaging service on WhatsApp to give users up-to-date info like novel coronavirus infection rates, travel advisories, and debunked misinformation — The World Health Organization is partnering with the messaging app to help ensure trustworthy information gets out.| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Twitter broadens its definition of harm to address content with deceptive language around COVID-19, including “denial of established scientific facts” — Site changes rules to ban content aimed at making people act against official advice — Twitter will remove tweets that run …
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| NBC News: |
Subreddit /r/coronavirus has become one of the most authoritative and up-to-date sites on COVID-19, with 1.2M+ members, 1M+ of which signed up in past two weeks — The Reddit message board /r/coronavirus has grown to more than 1.2 million members — almost a million of whom signed up in the last two weeks.
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| CityAM: |
Quit Genius, which provides personalized digital therapy to help people quit addictions like smoking, raises $11M Series A led by Octopus Ventures — A health tech startup backed by tennis champion Serena Williams has raised $11m (£9.4m) to bolster its digital therapy services to tackle addiction.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate, which promises to better unify the features and capabilities of PC gaming and the Xbox platform, coming later this year — Bringing a suite of software advancements in gaming graphics onto a single platform — Microsoft has a new version … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Ola suspends Ola Share, its pool rides option, in India — Ride-hailing giant Ola said on Friday evening that it is temporarily suspending pool rides on its platform, called Ola Share, in India in a bid to slow the coronavirus pandemic by encouraging social distancing.
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