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| Sam Dean / Los Angeles Times: |
Twitter says it strongly encourages its 4,800 employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus, the first major US company to do so — Twitter on Monday became the first major U.S. corporation to strongly encourage its employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organizers say the conference is proceeding as planned — Twitter pulled out earlier today — Facebook has pulled out of the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, TX, according to a company statement given to Business Insider.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Robinhood again suffered a “major outage” on Tuesday, after saying issues were resolved on Monday, and will reach out to users about compensation “case by case” — - Robinhood saw a second day of glitches that kept clients from trading as markets rebounded.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo says Apple is working on six products with mini-LED tech including an iMac Pro refresh for Q4'20, a 7.9" iPad mini coming in 2020, and a 14.1" MacBook Pro — Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed … | Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt discovers a bug in its Certification Authority Authorization code, meaning affected users need to manually force-renew certs to avoid downtime — Let's Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime. — On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced …
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| Bloomberg: |
iPhone maker Foxconn says it expects its Chinese plants to begin operating normally by the end of March, after the disruption caused by the coronavirus — - Hon Hai says its facilities are at 50% seasonal capacity — The epidemic has disrupted Apple's finely tuned supply chain| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
WhatsApp says a dark mode will become available for iOS and Android users today, after months of testing, on by default for users with system dark mode enabled — Facebook finally says hello to darkness — WhatsApp is finally getting a new dark mode on iOS and Android today.| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Brookings study: only 10 US cities have grown their share of tech jobs since 2010, resulting in less diversity for companies and no economic windfall elsewhere — Austin is one the few cities to see substantial growth in its share of tech workers. Rick Kern/WireImage — Where tech jobs go, so does wealth.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it will speed up same-day delivery for Prime members in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas thanks to newly built smaller warehouses — Amazon today unveiled its latest initiative to speed up delivery times on millions of items for its growing cadre of Prime members.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Honeywell says it will launch a quantum computer within three months with a quantum volume of at least 64, the world's most powerful quantum computer — Under Honeywell's quantum plans, customers will connect directly to systems housed by the company. Honeywell will use quantum computing … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Mac Pro 2019 review: beautiful design, very quiet, but most apps don't push performance limits, expansion slots still can't use Nvidia GPUs, and it's pricey — Apple's back in the pro game, but can it keep up? — Reviewing the new Mac Pro has been an interesting challenge.| Andrew Marantz / New Yorker: |
Interviews with dozens of people shed light on how Brad Parscale, a political newcomer, leveraged Facebook and its ad platform to help Trump win in 2016 — Brad Parscale used social media to sway the 2016 election. He's poised to do it again. — In September, at a resort hotel in the Coachella Valley …
Tweets: @lainnafader, @andrewmarantz, @adamweinstein, and @michaelluo
| Joann Muller / Axios: |
Bolt, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter startup co-founded by Usain Bolt, closes $30M Series A at a $100M valuation led by Rokk3r Fuel ExO — Bolt Mobility, a Miami Beach-based electric scooter company co-founded by Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt, announced Tuesday that it closed a Series A funding round …
Tweets: @coryweinberg and @rmac18
| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
Prescription drug companies are ramping up Facebook ads, often accessing user data via loopholes, with the sector's mobile spend roughly tripling in two years — Pharmaceutical companies are ramping up their spending on social media, triggering some patient advocate concerns about privacy
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @nitashatiku, @geoffreyfowler, @nitashatiku, and @geoffreyfowler
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
How a security analyst sent his mother to a state correctional facility with fake credentials to plant malicious USB drives, resulting in the director using one — Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility's defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Talespin, which uses VR/AR to develop enterprise training tools, raises $15M Series B led by Cornerstone OnDemand, bringing its total raised to $20M — Talespin made itself famous for a virtual reality demo where managers learn how to fire a hapless worker named Barry.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Report: senior management at Apple rebuffed some operations execs' suggestion to relocate part of its manufacturing from China to Vietnam as early as 2015 — Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Physical security startup Deep Sentinel, which uses cameras and AI to prevent break-ins, extends its Series A to $24M and launches Deep Sentinel for Business — Deep Sentinel, a physical security startup that leverages cameras, AI, and around-the-clock monitoring to prevent break-ins … Thanks:@heyunjeong
| Adrian Chen / New York Times: |
Profile of Hideo Kojima, a legend like few others in the gaming industry, as he looks past Metal Gear Solid with Death Stranding — He's an auteur whose bizarre creations — the Metal Gear Solid series and, most recently, Death Stranding — have become huge blockbusters. Why do gamers find them so captivating?| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code — To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US sanctions two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea's Lazarus Group, which has hacked two crypto exchanges since 2018 — UPDATE: The Department of Justice has also indicted the two Chinese nationals on money laundering-related charges.
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Tweets: @kevincollier, @jamiepastore9, @seamushughes, @errorinn, @mayazi, and @nathanielpopper
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Public, a stock investing app that allows users to buy fractions of shares, raises $15M Series B led by Accel and Greycroft, bringing total raised to ~$24M — Investing in the stock market can be intimidating for many. It can also be difficult for those who don't have tons of extra cash …
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