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Apple announces a new iPhone SE with a 4.7" display, A13, Touch ID, 12MP camera with portrait mode, 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB storage from $399, shipping April 24 — It looks like an iPhone 8, but it has more modern specs — Apple has officially announced the new iPhone SE …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
The new 4.7" iPhone SE shows that the era of small smartphones that could be comfortably operated with a single hand, is over — Apple's new iPhone SE 2 is the nail in the coffin of the small smartphone — It's been a bad year for small phone lovers. It's no secret that the average size …
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US DOD inspector general finds the Pentagon's controversial decision to award $10B JEDI contract to Microsoft was “consistent” with acquisition standards — - Inquiry didn't find evidence that Trump swayed the decision — Inspector general added that White House limited cooperation| Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico: |
US DOD's report could not “definitively determine” whether the White House intervened in $10B JEDI contract as officials were barred from answering questions — The Pentagon's inspector general “could not definitively determine” whether the White House influenced the procurement process …
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Profile of Lee Holloway, Cloudflare's third founder, widely considered a genius, who became distant and erratic due to a tragic case of frontotemporal dementia — Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
In an internal email, Sundar Pichai tells Alphabet employees that the company will slow the pace of hiring for the rest of 2020 as it re-evaluates investments — - Company is ‘recalibrating’ spending on data centers, servers — Covid-19 crisis is affecting richest Silicon Valley businesses
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
SoftBank-backed home buying startup Opendoor says it's laying off 600 employees, or ~35% of its staff, after halting home purchases last month amid the pandemic — Home-buying startup Opendoor laid off more than 600 employees Wednesday, one of the deepest cuts from a private tech firm since …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google says it is launching a new Kids section on Google Play, featuring “Teacher Approved” apps, rolling out in the US in the coming days — ‘Everything here is teacher approved’ — Google is launching a new Kids section for the Google Play Store, which will offer a selection of so-called “Teacher Approved” apps.
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| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Instagram announces new features to support small US and Canadian businesses during the pandemic, including gift cards, food orders, and fundraisers — - Instagram is making it easier for small businesses to feature gift cards, online food orders and fundraisers in their profiles or stories.
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| Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
Internal memo to unions: Amazon plans to close its 10 French warehouses, with 10K staff, until at least April 20, after a court banned non-essential item orders — Mathieu Rosemain, Gwénaëlle Barzic — PARIS (Reuters) - Amazon will close its warehouses in France until … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft details new environmental initiatives, including a Planetary Computer that would aggregate and analyze data to help in sustainable decision making — Microsoft today announced a series of initiatives aimed at advancing the protection and preservation of biodiversity and ecosystems around the world.
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| John Harris / The Guardian: |
An in-depth look at the global efforts to push back against planned obsolescence in tech products, a scandalous practice, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Unrepairable phones and laptops are one of the scandals of our throwaway society. But the pushback is building …
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Ecobee expands its smart home lineup beyond thermostats with a $179 Alexa-integrated SmartCamera and Haven, a $5-$10 per month home monitoring platform — Ecobee is fleshing out its lineup beyond thermostats and SmartSensors and tying all of its gear together with a home monitoring platform.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says the Magic Keyboard with trackpad for iPad Pro is available to order and will arrive next week, ahead of the original May launch date — Apple has announced that the Magic Keyboard with trackpad for iPad Pro will be available to order today and begin arriving to customers next week.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Coding platform Glitch launches subscriptions that let developers upgrade their bite-sized apps and projects, offering more storage, requests, and memory — Subscriptions lift some major constraints on the platform's apps — The coding platform Glitch is formally launching its first paid product today … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
NY court rules Mashable embedding an Instagram post does not violate copyright law, as the photographer gave a “valid sublicense” by posting the image publicly — ‘This court cannot release her from the agreement she made.’ — A court ruled yesterday that Mashable can embed …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Houseparty says it has seen 50M signups in the past month and has been the most downloaded social networking app in the US App Store every day since March 20 — Sima Sistani has been getting through the coronavirus outbreak's shelter-in-place order the past month in many of the same ways others have …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at efforts by developers, hobbyists, and students in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and other Asian countries to track and offer information about COVID-19 — Lee Dong-hoon couldn't take any more of the bloody masks. This was January, early in the coronavirus's sweep through South Korea … | Cara Waters / Sydney Morning Herald: |
Australian payments startup Airwallex, which helps companies manage cross-border transactions, raises $160M Series D, bringing total funding to $360M — Australian fintech Airwallex has raised $US160 million ($252 million) in new funds from investors including ANZ and Salesforce.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The coronavirus crisis underscores the power and dominance of big tech companies and that novel legislative approaches are required to regulate them — Apple and Google, who last Friday jointly | announced new capabilities for contact tracing coronavirus carriers at scale …
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| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Austin-based Coder, which offers a secure cloud-based coding service used by the US Air Force, raises $30M led by GGV Capital at a $200M valuation — As the coronavirus outbreak forces workers to stay at home, software engineers have faced a challenge accessing secure networks they'd typically only use at the office.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
GE Healthcare and Microsoft announce a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring tool for hospitals; all but the installation costs will be waived until 2021 — GE Healthcare is extending its longtime collaboration with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systems.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Dell XPS 13 (2020) review: beautiful design, standout keyboard and touchpad, more than adequate for gaming, but bad webcam and limited port selection — Dell improves upon an already winning formula — Every time a new XPS 13 comes out, the question is always the same: is it still the best Windows thin-and-light laptop?Sponsor Posts
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