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While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus — The social network is straining to deal with skyrocketing usage as its 45,000 employees work from home for the first time.
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| New York Times: |
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year — More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America is about the virus, according to an internal report.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022 — Beating Google by two years to the privacy feature — Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) …
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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
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| Instagram: |
Instagram to remove some coronavirus-related content and accounts from recommendations and Explore, with exceptions for credible health organizations — People who search for information related to the coronavirus or COVID-19 on Instagram will start to see an educational message connecting …
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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple SVP of People and Retail says in internal memo that Apple expects to start reopening its retail stores in the first half of April on a staggered basis — Apple Inc. expects to start re-opening its retail stores in the first half of April on a staggered basis and has extended remote work abilities …
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| Stephen Palley / The Block: |
NY federal court issues preliminary injunction against Telegram's 2018 $1.7B ICO, finding the distribution of Gram tokens likely violates US securities law — The $1.7 billion 2018 fundraising effort by Telegram hit a major snag today when a Federal Judge in New York issued …
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| Chris Freeland / Internet Archive Blogs: |
Internet Archive debuts National Emergency Library, allowing users to borrow 1.4M+ digitized books without joining a waitlist during the COVID-19 crisis — To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020 …
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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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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates Apple Card's privacy policy to share more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, to help some users secure or expand credit, allows opt out via email — Apple is updating its privacy policy for Apple Card to enable sharing more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, its financial partner.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yelp and GoFundMe team up to promote local business fundraisers, with GoFundMe campaigns automatically appearing on Yelp business profiles — Following the announcement that it's committing $25 million in waived fees and free services to support local businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Six US Amazon warehouses have at least one worker testing positive for COVID-19, with some facilities temporarily shut for cleaning and some workers quarantined — The spike in positive tests for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus comes as the ecommerce giant races to hire 100,000 workers to meet massive shopper demand.| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: amid quarantines, Uber Eats recorded a 10% increase in US sales last week and a 30% increase in signups from people willing to deliver food — Uber Eats' U.S. sales surged by around 10% last week from the week before, a nearly unprecedented uptick for this time of the year …
Tweets: @amir
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies on #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon to develop software tackling COVID-19 challenges, starting Mar. 26 — - The World Health Organization has partnered with Facebook, Microsoft and several other tech companies for a hackathon to promote …
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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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