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| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
Disney says Disney+ has 50M+ paid subscribers globally, and that its April 3 launch in India accounts for 8M Disney+ subscribers; stock rises 6%+ — Disney announced that the company has surpassed 50 million paid subscribers, following their launch in India and eight Western European countries …
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Deadline, The Verge, TechCrunch, Variety, CNBC, The Walt Disney Company, Android Authority, coinspeaker.com, USA Today, GameSpot, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Engadget, Yahoo Finance, Hollywood Reporter, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @cnbci, @xpangler, @trengriffin, @sarthakgh, @xpangler, @loudmouthjulia, @loudmouthjulia, @freepeeper, and @getfandom
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
Google makes Stadia free to use for anyone with a Gmail address and will give new users two months of Stadia Pro for free — Stadia Pro is also free for two months — Google's video game streaming platform, Stadia, is now free to anyone with a Gmail address, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Tweets: @googlestadia, @eriktuf, @gossithedog, @domsplaying, @mrphilharrison, @kylebrussell, and @therealandymc
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter removes a tool that let mobile users prevent some data from being shared with advertisers; EU users are exempt and need to opt in to sharing — Users in Europe are the exception — Twitter has removed a privacy feature that allowed all users to stop sharing some private information with advertisers.
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Twitter Help Center, BetaNews, Mashable, Digital Trends, Engadget, Ad Age, Social Media Today, Decrypt, Firstpost Tech, 9to5Mac, and Adweek
Tweets: @chrismessina, @msamymacpherson, @vickerysec, @mshelton, @ct_bergstrom, @digiphile, @vegix, and @leimer
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero: |
Many US government and banking systems still use a 60-year-old COBOL, which makes it hard to find programmers to fix the systems when they break under pressure — Retired engineers are coming to the rescue — ver the weekend, New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, made an unusual public plea during …
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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
A look at COVID-19-related health security measures in places like Foxconn's iPhone-making complex and Huawei's factories in China as they restart production — Disinfect hands and shoes at the factory gate. Bring your own towel. No sunny-side-up eggs.
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9to5Mac, iMore, Mashable, MacRumors, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, and Business Insider
Tweets: @naomiaklein, @gerryshih, @annafifield, and @evadou
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft won't be delivering its Windows 10X-powered Surface Neo dual-screen devices this year, nor will it ship Windows 10X to third-party OEMs — Microsoft is shifting its Windows focus to reflect the new world where virtualization and single-screen devices are more of a priority than brand-new form factors.
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The Verge, Thurrott, TechRadar.com, Petri, Neowin, CNBC, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @maryjofoley, and @mcwm
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A new Zoom update hides meeting ID numbers in videoconference call title bars by default, preventing accidental dissemination of meeting IDs with screenshots — A new update to the Zoom client has been released that removes the meeting ID from the title bar when conducting meetings … | Eric S. Yuan / Zoom Blog: |
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| Will Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
The pandemic has companies like Netflix and Equinix expediting network and server upgrades, driving the biggest expansion of internet infrastructure in years — Far from breaking it, the surge in usage the internet is seeing right now is driving a major upgrade.
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Washington Post. Tweets: @statistacharts, @catherineadenle, @icann, @fayaz_king, @darpa, @elinormills, and @ramirahim
| Matt Drange / Protocol: |
Online ticketing service Eventbrite says it will lay off 45% of its employees; sources say Eventbrite has over 1,000 staff — Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz announced Wednesday during a companywide meeting that 45% of employees were being laid off, Protocol has learned.
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Tweets: @mattdrange, @mattdrange, @mattdrange, @tunjiandrews, @martinsfp, @mattdrange, and @joshconstine
| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
UK's NCSC and US DHS publish a list of 2,500 COVID-19-related threats they are tracking, including malicious websites and email addresses linked to scams — If you weren't already taking the rise of coronavirus-based cybercrime seriously, take note. A rare joint alert has gone out from U.S …
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Microsoft Security, us-cert.gov, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, Computer Business Review, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, SDxCentral, Nextgov, Dark Reading, OnMSFT.com, BleepingComputer, CNET, AppleInsider, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @ericgeller, @msftsecurity, @coreysanderswa, @hurdonthehill, @iblametom, and @stshank
| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
In a letter, about 50 labor groups urge congressional leaders to reject Uber CEO's March 23 proposal to create a new legal category for its workers — A coalition of about 50 labor groups is asking congressional leaders to reject Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi's proposal …
Tweets: @32bjseiu, @nicoemoe, @californialabor, and @legalaidnyc
| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Evidence of benchmark cheating has been found in MediaTek chipsets used in smartphones from manufacturers including Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Sony — Mobile benchmark cheating has a long story that goes far back for the industry (well - at least in smartphone industry years) …
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MediaTek, Telecoms.com, Android Authority, SlashGear, TalkAndroid.com, ExtremeTech, Android Police, and Forbes
Tweets: @geoffblaber, @extremetech, @patrickmoorhead, @bgos10, @anshelsag, @rdrv3, and @anandtech. Thanks:@iancutress
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla says long-time chairwoman Mitchell Baker will become CEO, following Chris Beard's departure last year — Mozilla Corporation announced today that it has chosen long-time chairwoman Mitchell Baker to be CEO, replacing Chris Beard who announced he would be stepping down at the end of the year last August.
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The Mozilla Blog, The Mozilla Blog, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, and CNET
Tweets: @anildash and @andreasgal
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
CloudKitchens blames rogue staffer for “Internet Food Court” PR campaign, after it created an impression that Kalanick was launching it during COVID-19 crisis — The Hollywood kitchen facility seemed perfect for the coronavirus crisis — but then suddenly vanished from the internet
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PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @daveleeft, @brokenbottleboy, @therideshareguy, @sindap, @financialtimes, @tim, @mattgarrahan, @thekenyeung, @daveleeft, and @martinsfp
| Craig S. Smith / New York Times: |
An overview of how machine learning is being used in sports to assess athletic talent, detect and predict injuries, improve the betting odds, and more — The pattern-recognizing power of machine learning is affecting players, teams, sports medicine and even betting.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Tech giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google are scrambling to create digital internships for this summer, as offices remain shuttered during the pandemic — The major tech companies are scrambling to craft digital options for this year's summer intern class, as businesses remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Mac Observer, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iMore, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google says Meet, its teleconferencing tool, is adding 2M new users a day and logged 2B minutes of video calls in March with daily usage up 25x from January — As people around the world hunker down in their homes to slow the spread of COVID-19, one technology has emerged as a lifeline to the outside world: video chat.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple extends its Apple Pay Express Transit feature, already available in Beijing and Shanghai, nationwide, after a new partnership with China T-Union — From today, iPhone users across China can set up their T-Union cards for Express Transit, Apple's contactless transit payment system.
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9to5Mac, iMore, Apple Support, Abacus, and Cult of Mac
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK startups including Deliveroo, Citymapper, and Graphcore urge the government to create a task force to make lending schemes accessible to tech companies — The U.K. government, like a number of other countries around the world such as the U.S., has stepped up its pace in providing relief …
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Financial Times
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple and Amazon video deal is part of a long-term strategy to fight a potential Netflix-dominated future after most competing streaming services fold — Last week, without fanfare, Amazon Prime Video apps on iOS made a subtle change to the experience of purchasing or renting TV Shows and videos:
Tweets: @modestproposal1
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