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Microsoft announces $249 Surface Headphones 2 with better sound and battery, arriving on May 12, and says its Surface Buds will ship on the same day for $199 — Available for preorder today, new Surface devices and accessories are designed to help you work, learn, connect and play from anywhere
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Tweets: @panos_panay, @jgownder, @baxiabhishek, @patrickmoorhead, @baxiabhishek, @surface, and @ow
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Go 2 with a bigger 10.5-inch display and more powerful Intel processors, available on May 12, starting at $399 — The smaller Surface gets a big hardware bump — Microsoft's smallest Surface tablet is getting some important hardware upgrades today in the form of the Surface Go 2.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Petri, Petri, PCWorld, Thurrott, Microsoft Store, CNBC, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @martinsfp and @tomwarren
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft debuts 13.5-inch and 15-inch Surface Book 3 laptops with 10th-gen quad-core Intel CPUs, new NVIDIA GPUs, available May 21 from $1,600 and $2,300 — With the Surface Book 2, Microsoft proved it could take on the MacBook Pro directly with a powerful and genuinely innovative PC notebook.| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Letter from Brian Chesky to Airbnb employees says the company is laying off 1,900, or ~25% of its workforce, and expects a 2020 revenue decline of 50% YoY — Airbnb is laying off a quarter of its staff. — Airbnb, seen until recently as one of Silicon Valley's most financially secure unicorns, is laying off a quarter of its staff.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Loon partners with AT&T to extend the cellular network coverage using its balloons globally in case of disasters — Alphabet-owned Loon, the company focused on providing connectivity via high-altitude, stratosphere skimming balloons that can act as on-demand, deployable cell towers …
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| Ellen Hammett / Marketing Week: |
Study: half of the money that brands invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers; 15% of the money cannot be attributed at all — A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers …
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Financial Times, The Media Nut, ISBA, ISBA, Mediatel News, and ISBA
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber says it will lay off 3,700 employees, or about 14% of its workforce, as it has been hit hard by the pandemic — Uber announced Wednesday that it will lay off 3,700 employees. The cuts to its customer support and recruiting teams represent about 14% of its 26,900 employees, based on Uber's most recent headcount.
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CNET, Bloomberg, The Daily Dot, and Engadget
Tweets: @realdanlyons, @cnbctv18live, @stefan_wieler, and @mpelletiercio
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Q&A with Steven Sinofsky on his upcoming memoir that chronicles his time at Microsoft, as he reflects on how the company fought the ILOVEYOU virus 20 years ago — On the 20th anniversary of the unleashing of the ILOVEYOU virus—which infected millions of PCs worldwide …
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| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Shopify tops estimates with Q1 revenue of $470M, up 47% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $17.4B, up 46% YoY — - First-quarter revenue jumped 47% to $470 million from 2019 — Gross merchandise volume soared 46% to $17.4 billion — Shopify Inc. reported first-quarter revenue …
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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Sources: Magic Leap is in talks to raise $100M in funding from a major health company after laying off around half of its workforce — - Magic Leap is turning to a “major” health care company to raise money, according to an internal memo obtained by The Information.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Sources: Google to release a Fire TV-like Android TV dongle with a new content-centric UI in the coming months, likely extending its Nest brand to the product — Google is set to introduce an Android TV streaming device in the coming months, a reimagined dongle with a new user interface …
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| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Facebook takes another stab at enabling “free” mobile web access, testing a Discover app in Peru that lets users visit any website with daily data limits — Remember Free Basics? Facebook's ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time.
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Tweets: @techatfacebook and @aghoshal
| Alex Davies / Wired: |
Profile of Ford-backed Argo AI and its CEO Bryan Salesky, who previously worked at CMU's Robotics Institute and as a Google hardware lead for self-driving cars — Meet Brian Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving.| Shannon Liao / CNN: |
Activision Blizzard CEO says people may turn to free mobile games during the pandemic, after the company beat Q1 expectations with sales of $1.52B, up 21% YoY — New York (CNN Business)While much of the economy is hurting during the pandemic, video games are thriving.| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Adult livestreaming website CAM4 exposes 10B+ records, including names, sexual orientations, payment logs, and email transcripts, on an unsecure database — CAM4 has taken the server offline, but not before it leaked 7TB of user data. — It's all too common for companies to leave databases chock full …
Tweets: @lanceulanoff and @wired
| Bloomberg: |
Spotify CEO expects Apple to “open up” its platform more to 3rd-party apps, after Spotify's antitrust complaint with the EU, but sees it as a long-term process — - Apple plans to let other music services integrate with HomePod — Ek says ‘steps to go before’ Apple is open and fair platform
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Bloomberg, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, Softpedia News, Wccftech, iMore, TechPowerUp, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Tweets: @tomwarren, @lucas_shaw, @baekdal, @elkmovie, @andrewornot, and @markgurman
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
With gyms closed, sales of the $2,245 Peloton connected smart bike have surged; Peloton's stock has risen 86% since mid-March, valuing the company at $10B — With gyms closed and nowhere to go, more people are shelling out $2,245 for the workout bike. — Lauren Allbright, a teacher …
Tweets: @aaronwall and @kerrymflynn
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ring debuts an improved $99.99 entry-level doorbell with a $49 solar charger accessory, available June 3 and open for preorders now — It's basically a Video Doorbell 2 for half the price — Ring is relaunching its original Video Doorbell, first introduced in 2014, with features found …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
After tests on twttr prototype app, Twitter is rolling out a new layout for replies that will use lines and indentations to make conversations easier to follow — Twitter announced today it's introducing a new layout for replies that will use lines and indentations to make it easier …
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The Verge, Input, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Neowin, and Social Media Today
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @goodatsexguy, @jgfromoc, @joshelman, @electproject, @natskratts, @silver_watchdog, @stoicstolas, @priusjames, @bunkybun, and @lizkelley
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber Eats introduces a new sharing feature that lets users send food to friends, who can now track the deliveries — Uber Eats is introducing a new feature that lets customers send food to friends, family or coworkers and share details to make it easier track the deliveries.
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VentureBeat, Uber Newsroom, and Mashable
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Peanut, a social network originally for moms but now for all women, raises $12M Series A led by EQT Ventures, bringing the total raised to $21.8M — Peanut, an app that began as a tool for finding new mom friends, has evolved into a social network now used by 1.6 million women to discuss a range of topics … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Disney+ has seen paid subscribers grow from 33.5M in March to 54M in May, nearly meeting its launch date projection of 60M-90M users by the end of 2024 — - Disney announced Tuesday that it saw growth across all of its streaming service platforms in the past quarter.| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee makes a rare apology, saying he will not hand over management of the company to his children, and vows to protect labor rights — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, embroiled in a bribery scandal, on Wednesday made a rare apology …
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The Verge, The Korea Herald, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Engadget, and Bloomberg
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