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Google rebrands its business-focused teleconferencing app Hangouts Meet to Google Meet and Hangouts Chat to Google Chat, leaving Hangouts brand for consumers — Following the official change from Hangouts Meet to Google Meet — Google has officially removed the Hangouts brand …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon says it has begun assembling equipment to build a lab to screen its workers for COVID-19, may be working on antigen testing — With workers in at least 64 warehouses and shipping facilities testing positive, the e-commerce giant says it hopes to start testing a small numbers of employees ‘soon’
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook begins rolling out “Quiet Mode” app feature that mutes most notifications and helps schedule breaks; coming to iOS in April and Android in May — Facebook is rolling out a new feature today that allows users to mute all notifications from the social network.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sophos: more than 30 “fleeceware” apps on the App Store, including some of the highest-grossing ones, are abusing free trial mechanics to charge obscene fees — More than 3.5 million iOS users installed ‘fleeceware’ apps from the Apple App Store.
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| Bani Sapra / Business Insider: |
Facebook files lawsuit against Basant Gajjar, founder of LeadCloak, alleging its software helped scammers run deceptive ads on Facebook and Instagram — - Facebook announced that it filed a lawsuit against the founder of a company called LeadCloak on Thursday, alleging that it was helping …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google launches a braille keyboard for Android that requires no extra hardware, letting users tap a standard 6-key layout to type letters and words — Google today announced the launch of a virtual braille keyboard for Android that's designed to enable those with low vision or blindness … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 14 code shows that Apple is working on a “Clips” feature letting users experience parts of an app's functionality in Safari via a link or scanning a QR code — Apple is working on a new way to offer specific parts of third-party apps across the system without needing to have them installed …
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| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Report: Travelex paid hackers 285 BTC, worth around $2.3M, to regain access to its systems after a ransomware attack on New Year's Eve — Travelex paid hackers $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin to regain access to its computer systems after a devastating ransomware attack on New Year's Eve, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Analysis of efforts by 25 governments to track the COVID-19 pandemic using new surveillance programs, such as using location data or releasing an app — At least 28 countries are ramping up surveillance to combat the coronavirus — an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google creates an application portal to help New York State with the recent surge of unemployment filings, says it could bring a similar service to more states — - The state of New York announced a partnership with Google for an online unemployment application system.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Cybersecurity service Zscaler said it plans to acquire Cloudneeti, a cloud security startup that helps prevent cloud service and application misconfiguration — Publicly traded cybersecurity provider Zscaler Inc. today said it's acquiring Cloudneeti Corp., a Seattle startup … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
TikTok pledges $375M to support COVID-19 relief efforts around the world: $250M in funds, $100M in ad credits, and $25M in public health ads — Including direct funding and ad credits — TikTok has announced a series of relief funds and initiatives to support those fighting the COVID-19 pandemic … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Researcher Jane Manchun Wong: Facebook may be working on a new “Campus” feature, with Groups and Events for college students with .edu addresses — Facebook is apparently hoping to go back to its roots as a service that connects college students with each other.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Starship Technologies expands its autonomous food delivery robot service to Tempe, AZ, following launches in Washington, D.C., and Irvine, citing rising demand — Starship Technologies has launched a robot food delivery service in Tempe, Arizona, as part of the autonomous delivery startup's … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft has seen a new daily record of 2.7B meeting minutes in Teams, up 200% from 900M minutes in mid-March, and video call usage grew by 1,000%+ in March — Microsoft is revealing more about how people are using its Teams app, and it predicts the novel coronavirus pandemic will be a turning point …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at how Google Classroom has doubled its active users to 100M MAUs amid COVID-19, with the ubiquity of Chromebooks, affordability, deep LMS integrations — - Google Classroom users double to 100 million during the crisis — Company has spent years entrenching itself in schools| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
The political landscape in 2020 now seems less ominous for tech giants, as critics Warren and Sanders drop out and COVID-19 ramps up need for tech platforms — The candidates calling to break up Big Tech have faded away — There has been concern for months in Silicon Valley …
Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @misyrlena
| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Twitch expands Watch Parties beta to all US creators, allowing streamers to broadcast Prime Video content with their viewers; global rollout in following months — Now, you can watch stuff on Amazon Prime with your favorite streamers — Twitch announced today that it's bringing …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
The Unicode Consortium says it's delaying emoji planned for 2021 but the emoji announced earlier this year will still be available in the fall — An emoji delay — The pandemic is even affecting emoji. The Unicode Consortium, the group behind emoji releases, announced today that it's delaying …
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| Hayden Field / Protocol: |
DARPA selects 17 orgs for its AI defense program, with Intel leading efforts to defend against physical attacks like use of stickers to trick self-driving cars — The Pentagon is teaming up with some of the biggest names in tech to combat hacks designed to mess with the automated systems we'll rely on in the near future.
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