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Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues — The company's independent oversight body will focus on challenging content issues, such as hate speech and harassment. — The authors are co-chairs of Facebook's oversight board.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @nytopinion, @arusbridger, @slpng_giants, @nighatdad, @nick_clegg, @tawakkolkarman, @nighatdad, @julieowono, @maina_kiai, @mattzeitlin, @hellethorning_s, @oversightboard, @parkermolloy, @jbenton, @sivavaid, @sarafischer, @sheeraf, @kevinroose, @jamalgreene, @columbialaw, @joshchafetz, @sarahfrier, @broderick, @sarahfrier, @reckless, @hellethorning_s, @filip_struharik, @matthewstoller, @kevinroose, and @om
| 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.
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Microsoft Store, The Verge, Windows Central, CNET, PCWorld, CNET, Windows Latest, and Wccftech
Tweets: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @devindra, and @dcseifert
| Panos Panay / Windows Blog: |
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Tweets: @panos_panay, @jgownder, @baxiabhishek, @surface, @baxiabhishek, @ow, and @patrickmoorhead
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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TechCrunch, International Business Times, Windows Central, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Pocketnow, PCWorld, MSPoweruser, CNBC, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, Thurrott, BetaNews, Petri, The Next Web, Tom's Hardware, Android Authority, Petri, OnMSFT.com, and PCWorld
Tweets: @tomwarren, @martinsfp, and @dcseifert
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 11 Beta 1 is being pushed back to June 3, about a month behind schedule, but the final release is still on track for Q3 — Back in February, Google laid out plans for three Android 11 developer previews and betas. The company delivered the first half on that schedule amid COVID-19 …
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Android Developers Blog, International Business Times, Android Police, Android Authority, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, The Verge, Android Police, PCWorld, ZDNet, XDA Developers, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Android Police, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, ExtremeTech, Thurrott, and Engadget
Tweets: @laurengoode, @emojipedia, and @epro
| 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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XDA Developers, Android Authority, Android Police, 9to5Google, Light Reading, Droid Life, Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin, Thurrott, The Verge, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @film_girl, @lordravenscraft, and @protocol
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces new features, including Codespaces, a free cloud-based developer environment now in beta that's based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor — Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week.
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The GitHub Blog, VentureBeat, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, ZDNet, DevOps.com, and Wired
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NFC Forum unveils its Wireless Charging Specification, allowing 1 watt charging for smaller devices — It might soon be much easier to buy a smartphone that can charge small devices like earbuds or smartwatches. The NFC Forum, responsible for near-field communications tech, has unveiled the Wireless Charging Specification (WLC).| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Microsoft updates To Do with new features as Wunderlist shutters ~5 years after its acquisition, and the founder behind it unveils work on a new app, Superlist — Today is finally the day Wunderlist dies, years after the Microsoft acquisition. Former users are encouraged to switch to Microsoft To Do … | Ellen Hammett / Marketing Week: |
Study: half of the money brands invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers; 15% of the money is unattributable to supply chain players — A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers …
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ISBA, Nieman Lab, and The Media Nut
Tweets: @jason_kint, @craigsilverman, @brianstelter, @anthony, @dangillmor, @hoofnagle, @groomb, @pilhofer, @digitalshields, @megancgraham, @glennf, and @keithbohanna
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber says it will lay off 3,700 employees, or ~14% of its workforce, as it has been hit hard by the pandemic; CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will forgo his base salary — Uber announced Wednesday that it will lay off 3,700 employees. The cuts to its customer support and recruiting teams represent …
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Bloomberg, Axios, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, Electrek, ZDNet, and Engadget
Tweets: @amir, @mpelletiercio, @realdanlyons, and @stefan_wieler
| 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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Loon Blog, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Engadget, FierceWireless, and ZDNet
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue of $955.7M, up 23% YoY, as its net loss drops to $398.1M from $1.1B in 2019; active riders rose 3% YoY to 21.2M; stock up 10%+ — - On Wednesday, Lyft reported losses of $398.1 million, and revenue of $955.7 million for Q1 2020. — Citing Covid-19 impacts to its business …
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| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Facebook tries again to offer “free” mobile web access with data limits, partnering with telecoms in Peru to offer a Discover app that lets users visit any site — Remember Free Basics? Facebook's ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time.
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The Verge, Facebook Technology, TechCrunch, CNET, World Wide Web Foundation, Engadget, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @techatfacebook, @aghoshal, @yoda, and @mcwm
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Source: Spotify is testing video podcasts in its app, starting with two YouTube stars — The test is coming to half of Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar's audience — Spotify is now testing video podcasts in its app, starting with two YouTube stars: Zane Hijazi and Heath Hussar, hosts of Zane and Heath: Unfiltered.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple SVP Craig Federighi about the iPadOS cursor, a significant change to the pointer paradigm, and the decisions Apple made to get there — Apple SVP Craig Federighi talks about the iPad's new cursor and Magic Keyboard — Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer …
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Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @panzer, @caseyliss, @panzer, @panzer, @manukumar, and @panzer
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
The Libra Association names former US Treasury Department official Stuart Levey as its first CEO ahead of a renewed regulatory push — The Libra Association, the group behind the proposed digital currency invented by Facebook Inc., named former U.S. Treasury Department official Stuart Levey as its first chief executive officer.
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Libra.org, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, The Block, and Reuters
Tweets: @milenarodban, @kevinweil, and @davidmarcus
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Data Protection Board publishes updated guidelines arguing that scrolling and “cookie walls”, which block users from content, don't constitute consent — You can't make access to your website's content dependant on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’.| 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 Korea Herald, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, New York Times, and The Verge
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @caseynewton
| Charles Fishman / The Atlantic: |
How internet infrastructure, like that from AT&T, has managed to cope during the lockdown, as people stream media and work remotely — Here's a question that should make you shudder: What if, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the internet had buckled?
Tweets: @robinsloan, @attnews, @adriennelaf, @cfishman, and @yappelbaum
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo says it will sell Lidar-equipped self-driving cars to consumers starting in 2022 using Lidar startup Luminar's cheaper sensors — Volvo's new platform will include high-powered laser sensors — an industry rarity — Most new cars sold today include a bevy of sensors such as cameras … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Security researchers say India's contact tracing app, mandated for many workers and downloaded over 90M times, could leak patient GPS data — The system's use of GPS data could let hackers pinpoint who reports a positive diagnosis. — As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps …
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Elliot Alderson, Vox, Inc42 Media, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @drshamamohd, @wired, and @a_greenberg
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match says Tinder will launch in-app one-on-one video chats later this year, as growth falls during the pandemic, although most details are TBA — A big undertaking for one of the world's largest dating apps — Tinder is going to launch its own in-app, one-on-one video chats later this year.
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CNET, Business Insider, and Engadget
Tweets: @caseynewton, @antoniogm, @ashleyrcarman, and @panzer
| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Google, Gates Foundation, and others form the Mojaloop Foundation, which will develop an open source digital payments platform for developing countries — For more than a decade, Kenyans from the bustling capital of Nairobi to far-flung farms have had access to a digital payments service that was ahead of its time.| Emily Bary / MarketWatch: |
Square reports Q1 revenue of $1.38B, up 44% YoY, with net loss of $106M, up $68M YoY, as Square fills reserves to prepare for COVID-19 problems; stock down 6%+ — Payments processor falls to an adjusted loss as it prepares for merchants' transaction and loan losses with reserves — Referenced Symbols| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Samsung patches a custom image format flaw, found by Google, that allows remote code execution without user interaction on Samsung smartphones sold since 2014 — Samsung patched this month a critical bug discovered by Google security researchers. — South Korean smartphone vendor Samsung released … | 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.
Tweets: @wired
| 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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ZDNet, Financial Times, BetaKit, Globe and Mail, BetaKit, The Logic, Protocol, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @thestalwart, @theabridgedzach, @bloombergca, @mdudas, @sarthakgh, @bradelliottsa, and @alex
| 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: @nytimesbusiness, @kerrymflynn, @pranavdixit, @eringriffith, and @aaronwall
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