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A look at the rise of “Zoombombing”, where trolls disrupt public Zoom conferencing calls by using the service's screen-sharing feature to share graphic content — As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Amazon says it will stop shipping non-essential products from third party merchants via Fulfillment by Amazon to consumers in Italy and France — (Reuters) - Amazon.com will stop shipping non-essential products to consumers in Italy and France, according to an announcement the company published … | Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Amazon hourly workers at the warehouses will receive double pay for overtime from March 15 to May 9, up from the previous 1.5-times rate — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Saturday it is raising overtime pay for associates working in its U.S. warehouses, as the world's largest … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google launches a dedicated COVID-19 website, focused on locally relevant info in the US, as well as enhanced Search results for terms related to the disease — After lots of complicated drama, a simple website — One week ago, President Donald Trump held a press conference wherein …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Snap Camera, which lets users overlay their faces with AR filters in services like Zoom, Hangouts, and Twitch, has seen 10X surge in downloads since March 1 — Workers around the world are suddenly confined to their homes and apartments to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
In an internal doc, Apple informed authorized service providers that some iOS 13 or iPadOS 13 users may experience issues with the Personal Hotspot feature — In an internal document distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers this week, obtained by MacRumors, Apple has acknowledged …
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A behind-the-scenes account on the creation of Petro, Venezuela's oil-backed cryptocurrency, whose author fled the country after becoming subject to persecution — Gabriel Jiménez hated the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. But he loved cryptocurrency.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Russian hacker group called Digital Revolution claims it breached a contractor for FSB and discovered details of a project intended to build an IoT botnet — Digital Revolution hacker group leaks details about “Fronton” an IoT botnet a contractor was allegedly building for the FSB, Russia's intelligence agency.| 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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| 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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| Xinmei Shen / Abacus: |
Amid heavy censorship, Telegram became a refuge for WeChat users seeking information outside official channels at the height of the COVID-19 crisis in China — Telegram features like channel broadcasts and optional chat encryption have helped some people stay up to date amid heavy censorship on Tencent's WeChat
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