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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Package Manager, native to Windows 10, letting users install software from the command line without visiting vendor sites or the Store — Microsoft is adding a built-in package manager to Windows 10. The company today announced Windows Package Manager at Build 2020 …
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @tomwarren, and @whatthebit
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Thurrott, Microsoft Docs, Softpedia News, Liliputing, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @tomwarren, @jamesmontemagno, @qmatteoq, @panos_panay, @epro, @dcseifert, and @ow
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is improving its Windows Subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, as its Terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0 — Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration — Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV+ to build a back catalog; as of February it had ~10M subscribers but only half actively used it — - Company wants to create back catalog to complement originals — TV+, launched in November, had 10 million sign-ups by February
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Tweets: @lucas_shaw and @markgurman
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Synapse Link, an enterprise service that uses an approach called “hybrid transaction/analytical processing” to analyze data more quickly — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service …
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| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
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Tweets: @jorilallo, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of 9M passengers were stolen and credit card details of 2,208 customers were accessed — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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Tweets: @weldpond, @petefirman, @ccleaner, @mikko, @joetidy, and @osxreverser
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung announces a 50-megapixel smartphone sensor promising faster “DSLR-level auto-focus speeds” and better low-light image quality — Samsung has unveiled a new smartphone sensor showing that more megapixels may not always be better. The ISOCELL GN1 is “only” a 50-megapixel sensor …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, XDA Developers, The Verge, Droid Life, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Mashable, Android Central, Android Authority, Neowin, Pocketnow, and SamMobile. Tweets: @stanhoraczek
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
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| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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Tweets: @davidclinchnews, @rdrv3, @backlon, and @reckless
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate — Microsoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum.
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flow.microsoft.com, GeekWire, ZDNet, TechCrunch, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
| New York Times: |
Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features — Google today launched Chrome 83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 83 includes redesigned safety and privacy settings …
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| Scott Nover / Adweek: |
Google Preferred to be replaced by YouTube Select, a global offering for premium advertisers with a package specifically for YouTube content on connected TVs — Called YouTube Select, it includes connected TV usage for the first time — Key Insight: — The offering will help Google monetize …
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TechCrunch, The Keyword, Search Engine Land, AdExchanger, 9to5Google, and Neowin
Tweets: @ytadvertisers and @adweek
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems — Microsoft announced the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems, during its Build 2020 online conference.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identify of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Cloud for Healthcare, a suite of telehealth tools including a Healthcare Bot Service and patient engagement portals, is now in public preview — At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare.
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CNET, TechCrunch, Microsoft Industry Blogs, Bloomberg, CNET, WinBuzzer, and Neowin
| Mara Hvistendahl / Wired: |
Profile of Chinese voice computing company iFlytek, which makes AI-based apps for consumers and the Chinese government that critics say aid surveillance efforts — Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users.
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @shanthikalathil, @wired, and @wadhwa
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal — In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure.
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Bundesverfassungsgericht. Tweets: @privacyint, @markard_chair, @daphnehk, @gabrielazanfir, @fborgesius, @senficon, and @jonathandunnett
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