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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor that will power Pixel smartphones as soon as next year and future Chromebooks — Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel smartphone as soon as next year …
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Amazon fires two tech workers who'd been warned for publicly criticizing its warehouse workplace conditions and were outspoken critics of its climate stance — The workers had been outspoken critics of the e-commerce giant's climate policies and were previously warned about making public comments about its business
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
OnePlus 8 Pro review: great build quality, superb screen, and speedy wireless charging, but its color camera is gimmicky and dim light photography is mediocre — It's finally taking the Samsung Galaxy on feature-for-feature — The OnePlus 8 Pro is the result of a relentless spec battle with Samsung.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
OnePlus debuts $699 OnePlus 8, $899 OnePlus 8 Pro with high-refresh 6.55" and 6.78" AMOLED hole-punch screens, WiFi 6, on-screen fingerprint readers, more — As the world is in quarantine, smartphone companies aren't standing still and are still moving forward with their new product launches.
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| CNBC: |
Apple launches a tool that shows how well people are social distancing, using anonymized data from Apple Maps, similar to efforts from Google — - Apple on Tuesday launched a new tool that shows how well people are following social distancing guidelines. — It gathers anonymous data …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Kit, an experimental Apple Watch app, for one-tap communication with close friends via audio recording, emoji, location sharing, scribble, more — Facebook's internal R&D group has today launched a new app that lets you keep up with your close friends via your Apple Watch.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Builder, a simple, free DIY tool to help SMBs create short videos — YouTube today is launching a new tool aimed at small businesses who need a simple, low-cost way to create videos, but may not have the creative experience or technical know-how required to do so.
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| Nat Friedman / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub announces private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now free and reduces the price of the existing paid Team plan from $9 to $4 per month — All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. 🎉 — Until now, if your organization wanted to use GitHub …
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| TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google confirm contact tracing update will work on devices running iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play and say only health authorities can access API — Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data: iPhone shipments jumped 19% YoY in March to 2.5M, while overall smartphone sales, including Android devices, fell ~22% to 21M — - China's phone market continued decline, official data show — Foxconn production back to normal levels in late March
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Roku withdraws its full-year 2020 financial outlook, saying it expects Q1 revenue to be slightly higher after streaming hours grew 49% YoY in Q1; stock up 10%+ — - Roku said Monday that it was withdrawing its full-year 2020 financial outlook due to economic uncertainties around the Covid-19 pandemic.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Cisco says it is launching a $2.5B financing program to let customers defer 95% of payments until 2021, as business operations move online during the pandemic — OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) on Tuesday launched a $2.5 billion financing program that lets … | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
A court in France has reportedly given Amazon 24 hours to limit its customers' orders to just “essential” items or face fines of €1M per day — A court in Nanterre, France, has ruled that Amazon should greatly restrict orders in France in the coming weeks.
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Android Central, Engadget, and Yahoo Finance
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft issues fixes for 15 “critical” and 93 “important” flaws, including four Windows zero-days, three of which it says have been actively exploited — Today is Microsoft's April 2020 Patch Tuesday, and with everything going on, it is going to be particularly stressful …
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Threatpost, Zero Day Initiative, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After a researcher finds 49 Chrome extensions posing as crypto wallet apps while stealing users' private keys and more, Google removes them from Web Store — The Chrome extensions were mimicking cryptocurrency wallet apps like Ledger, MyEtherWallet, Trezor, Electrum, and others, but … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube Music replaces “Hotlist” with new “Explore” tab, which has a “New albums and singles” section and “Moods & genres” section for finding playlists — From user channels to a reorganized Library, Google's primary music service …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
VC firm Lightspeed raises $4B across three funds: $890M and $1.83B for early and later stage funds, respectively, and a $1.5B fund for doubling down on winners — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Investor Bejul Somaia is used to flying from India to Silicon Valley on a monthly basis.| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
ESRB, the organization that rates the content of video games, announces a new label for games that offer in-game purchases of loot boxes or other similar items — It's an additional descriptor to the ‘In-Game Purchases’ label introduced in 2018 — The Entertainment Software Rating Board …
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Tweets: @maxwinebach, @lam_barrett, @jaypeters, and @ben_orlebeke
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon to hire 75,000 workers, on top of the 100,000 new positions from last month; third-party sellers can ship some “nonessential” items to Amazon this week — Tech giant's planned hiring of 175,000 workers to help it handle surge in orders during pandemic
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The Next Web, PCMag, The Amazon Blog, coinspeaker.com, Digital Trends, CNBC, and LaptopMag
Tweets: @amazonnews, @amazonnews, @paulpage, @adammilstein, @amazon, @amazon_policy, and @counternotions
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