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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPad Pro 2020 review: it's fast with a great display and excellent trackpad support, but iPadOS limitations remain and its LIDAR tech may get little use — An iterative year-over-year update — Apple's tagline for the new 2020 iPad Pro models is “Your next computer is not a computer.”
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, macOS 10.15.4, tvOS 13.4, and watchOS 6.2 to the public — Following a 1.5-month beta testing period and a 3-month gap between point releases, Apple today officially released versions 13.4 of iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS to the public, alongside macOS 10.15.4 and watchOS 6.2.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Serbia, Morocco, and Myanmar — In a post on its developer website this afternoon, Apple has announced that the App Store is launching in 20 new countries this year.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Instagram announces Co-Watching, a feature that lets users browse the app together over video chat — - Facebook's Instagram announced a feature that lets users browse the app with friends over video chat. — The feature is called Co-Watching, and it allows users in direct-message conversations …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
YouTube will change the default video resolution to standard definition worldwide for a month starting today to ease internet traffic — - Videos will default to standard definition worldwide — YouTube, Netflix already reduced video quality in Europe| Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook's in talks to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in Reliance Jio to expand its presence in India; source says it was nearing deal for a 10% share — Deal seeks to expand social media giant's presence in India stalled by coronavirus travel ban| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mobile-only banking app Revolut, which has 10M+ customers in Europe, is launching in the US today — European fintech startup Revolut is launching its app and service in the U.S. Starting today, anybody can sign up and get a Revolut debit card. In the U.S., Revolut has partnered …
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| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region — D.C. gets an ‘A’ while Wyoming earns an ‘F’ for following coronavirus stay-at-home advice, based on the locations of tens of millions of phones
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Better Web with Scroll for Firefox tracking protection and Scroll's ad-free browsing experience for $2.50/mo. for the first six months — Mozilla just announced a new initiative called Firefox Better Web with Scroll, which combines the tracking protection built …
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon now offers all US part-time and seasonal delivery employees paid time off amid COVID-19 outbreak; an employee group had been pressuring Amazon since Dec. — Thousands of Amazon Logistics employees will start accruing paid time off for the first time today, according to photos …
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| Ariel Shapiro / Forbes: |
Streaming services see signup spikes in the past week, boosted by free trials, with Disney+ up over 300%, HBO Now 90%, Showtime 78%, Netflix 47%, Apple TV+ 10% — Topline: As Americans brace for spending weeks (or months) inside as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, they are subscribing …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a critical zero-day flaw in font rendering found in all supported versions of Windows; no patch is available — Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a previously undisclosed security vulnerability found in all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10.
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| Check Point Research: |
Ad fraud malware found in 24 children's Android games and 32 utility apps, downloaded nearly 1M times, before being removed from the Google Play Store — Research by Israel Wernik, Danil Golubenko , Aviran Hazum — Although Google has taken steps to secure its Play store and stop malicious activity …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Brave partners with Binance to include a widget on the new tab page that lets users buy, trade, and receive cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ethereum — Web browser Brave is expanding its cryptocurrency features with an integration with cryptocurrency exchange Binance.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Study: speech recognition systems from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentify words 19% of the time with white people vs. 35% with black people — Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Arkose Labs, which is developing a service that detects and mitigates online fraud, raises $22M Series B led by Microsoft's venture fund M12 — Arkose Labs, which is developing a platform that detects and mitigates online fraud, today announced that it has raised $22 million.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils the Stadia Makers program to attract more indie developers, promising funding, technical assistance from Unity experts, free developer hardware — At the virtual Google for Games Developer Summit today, the company announced “Stadia Makers” to bring more indie titles to the platform.
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