|
April 16, 2020, 7:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Verizon says it will buy videoconferencing company Blue Jeans Network, source says for less than $500M — Acquisition comes as the coronavirus spurs unprecedented work-from-home arrangements — Verizon Communications Inc. has agreed to buy videoconferencing company Blue Jeans Network Inc. … | Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple says macOS 10.15.5 will include a battery management tool for MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3 that manages battery life by analyzing the battery's temperature — The way MacBook batteries charge is about to change. Apple has released a new developer preview of macOS Catalina 10.15.5 …
More:
MacRumors, Apple Support, The Verge, CNET, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, Macworld, Daring Fireball, Appleosophy, LaptopMag, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, MacStories, MacRumors, Apple Must, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, and SlashGear
Tweets: @reneritchie, @jsnell, and @markgurman
| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Facebook to notify users who liked, commented, or reacted to COVID-19 misinfo and guide them to WHO resources, as report finds debunked claims on the platform — Users who have liked, shared or commented on posts with false claims will be directed to WHO's ‘myth busters’ page
More:
About Facebook, Vox, Avaaz, BBC, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Engadget, International Business Times, CNBC, Axios, The Week, Washington Post, TheStreet, Politico, TIME, Mashable, BuzzFeed News, The Verge, Bloomberg, SlashGear, Adweek, TechSpot, TechCrunch, The Irish Times, CNET, EURACTIV.com, VICE, and Forbes
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @guyro, @daithaigilbert, @ekadarville, @daithaigilbert, @rowlsmanthorpe, @slpng_giants, @schneider, @daithaigilbert, @haso_jan, @daithaigilbert, @mattnavarra, @sarafischer, @gatewaypundit, @marietjeschaake, @rowlsmanthorpe, @mosseri, @geoffrobinson, @alexhern, @kgoldshlager, @dpfunke, @doney, @karennax, @avaaz, @rowlsmanthorpe, @jencyjac, @cfarivar, @journalismfest, and @suzannenossel
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony plans to limit its initial PlayStation 5 production run in its first year partly because it expects lower demand due to a higher launch price — - Console still on track for year-end launch despite Covid-19 — Biggest impact from virus so far seen on unveiling timeline
More:
Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, Business Insider, International Business Times, ExtremeTech, The Next Web, TechHive, Input, Gematsu, Digital Trends, IGN, Thurrott, GameSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, Forbes, SlashGear, Game Rant, GamingBolt, GamesIndustry.biz, Polygon, Android Central, USgamer.net, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @zhugeex, @domsplaying, and @toadsanime
| New York Times: |
Libra scales back ambitions of launching a global currency and will now focus on creating a traditional payment network with coins tied to local currencies — After months of criticism, the cryptocurrency is moving ahead with significant revisions. — OAKLAND, Calif. … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is developing at least two over-ear wireless headphone variants, with swappable magnetic ear cups and headbands, to augment its AirPods business — - Over-ear headphones customizable via magnetic attachments — Entering a category led by own Beats brand, Bose and Sony
More:
Forbes, Android Authority, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, Ars Technica, Neowin, MacDailyNews, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, KnowTechie, Input, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, MacRumors, TechSpot, and LaptopMag
Tweets: @markgurman and @martinsfp
| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook is no longer planning to host local events in place of its F8 developer conference and cancels physical events with 50 or more people through June 2021 — Facebook said Thursday that it's no longer planning to host local events in place of its F8 developer conference …
More:
ZDNet, Engadget, CNN, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Input, The Verge, Digital Trends, and Business Insider
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8, @sarahfrier, @thosjleeper, @qwongsj, @david_schor, and @thekenyeung
| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google says Gmail business and education users can now directly take video calls on Meet, with a new Zoom-like layout, noise filtering, and more coming later — OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - Google will allow business and education users on Gmail.com to directly take calls …
More:
The Verge, ZDNet, G Suite Updates Blog, Chrome Unboxed, Android Police, Pocketnow, Android Central, 9to5Google, and Neowin
| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
EU issues guidelines to make COVID-19 contact tracing apps interoperable and says it will scrutinize Google and Apple's proposed APIs to ensure compatibility — - Bloc set common approach on tracking apps to exit lockdowns — Apple, Google announced new contact-tracing tech last week
More:
Vox, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Financial Times, AppleInsider, Forbes, and EURACTIV.com
Tweets: @carnage4life and @scheufele
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
In his annual letter to shareholders, Jeff Bezos outlined the steps Amazon is taking to curb the coronavirus, including regular testing for all staff globally — Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said the online retail giant is developing Covid-19 testing capabilities …
More:
The Amazon Blog, TechCrunch, Forbes, GeekWire, Business Insider, The Big Stack, Adweek, Input, coinspeaker.com, CNET, Digital Commerce 360, VICE, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @bloombergasia, @spencerjakab, @jkrisch, and @werner
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is redesigning its website to get customers to put fewer items in their carts while it contends with an immense surge in order volumes — Retailer cancels Mother's Day promotions, uses other tools to limit strain of order surge — Amazon.com Inc. is retooling its website …
More:
Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Seattle Times, and Android Central
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @rob_barry
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok lets parents set restrictions on their kids' accounts like limiting screen time, disabling DMs, and restricting content, and disables DMs for under-16s — They can set screen time limits, disable DMs, and restrict content — TikTok is amping up its parental controls today …
More:
Newsroom | TikTok, TechCrunch, Adweek, Tubefilter, Forbes, Digital Trends, Neowin, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Naked Security, and BetaNews
Tweets: @yoda and @mattnavarra
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
HP refreshes its Envy laptop range, including a redesigned 13-inch model with 10th-gen i7, starting at $1,000, and an updated 15-inch model from $1,350 — Also, AMD's Zen 2 CPUs are in the new Envy x360, starting at just $700 — Today, HP announced several new laptops in its Envy lineup …
More:
Engadget, press.ext.hp.com, Windows Central, AnandTech, AnandTech, Windows Blog, Thurrott, LaptopMag, VentureBeat, Tom's Hardware, and SlashGear
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The quadrennial iPhone SEs break from the annual upgrade cycle, arriving 2.5 years after their lookalikes as final versions of popular form factors — The answer: Leap years, the summer Olympics, U.S. presidential elections. — The question: What are things that occur every fourth year?
More:
BGR
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
More:
The Verge, 9to5Mac, IndiaShopps, 9to5Mac, Associated Press, Macworld, Mashable, 9to5Toys, Forbes, MacDailyNews, Lifehacker, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, International Business Times, Softpedia News, South China Morning Post, Techaeris, AppleInsider, Engadget, BGR India, Gotta Be Mobile, and TidBITS
Tweets: @tim_cook, @shaneisiconic, and @llsethj
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Stripe adds $600M extension to its $250M Series G at a $36B valuation from existing investors, including a16z, GV, and Sequoia, in its largest funding to date — Digital payments platform Stripe has raised $600 million in new funding and is now valued at nearly $36 billion, co-founder and president John Collison tells Axios.
More:
TechCrunch, Stripe, and CNBC
Tweets: @kr00ney, @carnage4life, @sarthakgh, @mgsiegler, and @ploberman
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon introduces a long-form speaking style for news and music within third-party Alexa skills, making speech sound natural by inserting conversational pauses — Amazon today announced a long-form speaking style for news and music content within third-party Alexa skills (i.e., voice apps).
More:
The Verge and Amazon Developer Services
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
GoPro says it's laying off 200 employees, or ~20% of its staff, and aims to reduce expenses by ~$100M by switching mostly to a direct-to-consumer model — GoPro has announced that it will lay off 200 employees or around 20 percent of its workforce due to the coronavirus pandemic.
More:
GoPro Inc., Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Forbes, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Sebastiaan de With / Halide: |
An in-depth analysis of the 2020 iPad Pro's cameras and the mechanism behind its lidar sensor, aided by a proof of concept app to show the sensor's potential — Two weeks ago, Apple dropped a new iPad Pro into our lives via their website. One of its headline features? A brand new camera array.| CNN: |
Twitter pulls funding for BuzzFeed's AM to DM due to the business impact of COVID-19, forcing BuzzFeed to suspend the show, with staffers' last day on April 28 — Some right-wing media personalities are encouraging Americans to protest stay-at-home orders, arguing it is time to start to re-open the economy.
More:
Variety and Nieman Lab
Tweets: @bfnewsunion, @alannabennett, @hshaban, @rachelysanders, and @theferocity
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Instacart launches a prescription delivery service from nearly 200 Costco locations in states including CA and NY, driven by demand during the pandemic — Online grocery delivery company Instacart is launching a prescription delivery service through a partnership with Costco as demand … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
NBA to use Microsoft's Azure cloud to add new features to its website and apps, like showing games in fans' native languages and letting them chat during games — - The NBA will tap Microsoft's Azure public cloud and use its Surface devices. — The league envisions delivering highlight reels …
More:
Thurrott, Windows Central, The Verge, PR Newswire, GeekWire, TechSpot, and MSPoweruser
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Pastebin, a popular destination for hackers, quietly removed a scraping API, frustrating researchers and making it harder to search for data breaches and more — The most famous paste site, used by hackers of all stripes to host lists of stolen passwords, announcements of data breaches … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Anodot, which offers a service that helps companies monitor performance against key indicators, raises $35M Series C led by Intel Capital — Anodot, a startup that helps customers monitor business operations against a set of KPIs, announced a $35 million Series C investment today.| Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: |
Free Now, the ride-hailing service run by Daimler and BMW, announces a restructuring, with possible job cuts, and says it plans to merge with French app Kapten — PARIS (Reuters) - The ‘FREE NOW’ taxi ride-hailing service run by Daimler and BMW announced on Thursday a corporate restructuring …
More:
Yahoo Finance
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
SAP CEO: AI Won't Kill Software, But It Will Change Your Job — With Christian Klein
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Invest Like the Best:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Great Chat:
Doomers at Dreamforce
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:05 PM ET, April 16, 2020.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:Andrea González-Ramírez / The Cut:
Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Jacqueline Feldscher / Politico: |
More:
U.S. Department of Defence, TechRadar.com, Techdirt, Cloud Computing News, TechSpot, Business Insider, WinBuzzer, and The Next Web
Tweets: @blakehounshell, @repadamschiff, @weinbergersa, @kyledcheney, @mark_dow, and @ianbassin