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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is making it mandatory for all employees around the world to work from home in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — After “strongly encouraging” it earlier this month, Twitter said today that working from home is now mandatory for all employees around the world due to COVID-19 concerns.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
ESA says E3, scheduled for early June as a three-day event, has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns — ESA announces it won't hold massive game marketing event for the first time since 1995. — [Update: In a message sent Wednesday morning, the ESA cited “growing concerns over [the] …
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| Business Insider: |
Google says it recommends its employees in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa work from home starting on March 12 — - Google will ask its UK and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) workforce to work from home starting Thursday. — This is an expansion of Google's policy for its employees …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
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| Steven Overly / Politico: |
Sources: the White House sought help from Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and others to combat COVID-19 misinformation and track its spread — The Trump administration implored the companies to use their technical expertise to help those dealing directly with the fallout of coronavirus.| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Magic Leap is exploring options, including a sale, partnerships, and a possible listing, after a meeting with Facebook never progressed to deal talks — - Florida-based company also weighing partnerships, stake sale — Magic Leap could fetch more than $10 billion in a sale process
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to release new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor keyboards in the second quarter of 2020 — Apple plans to release new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor keyboards in the second quarter of 2020, according to a new research note today from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, obtained by MacRumors.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: at least one of this year's iPhones will have a 3D depth camera on its back, enabling new photo and video effects, as well as better AR experiences — Our source confirms Apple's plans to put a 3D depth camera on the back of the iPhone. Here's what it'll do.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it will close all of its 17 retail stores in Italy from March 12 “until further notice” amid the COVID-19 outbreak — Apple Inc. said it is closing all 17 of its retail stores in Italy “until further notice” as the coronavirus pandemic limits activity in the country.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS debuts Bottlerocket, an open source OS for using Linux-based containers on virtual machines and bare metal hosts, in dev preview on Amazon EC2 and EKS — AWS has launched its own open-source operating system for running containers on both virtual machines and bare metal hosts.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU Commission outlines proposals for green initiatives related to tech: right-to-repair laws, ending premature obsolescence, and restricting single-use products — The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops.
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| Tim Berners-Lee / World Wide Web Foundation: |
On the web's 31st birthday, Tim-Berners Lee warns online harassment and lack of internet access are fuelling abuse and discrimination against women and girls — On the World Wide Web's 31st birthday, our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee reflects on the challenges we face to deliver on our vision of a web for everyone.
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Tweets: @timberners_lee, @webfoundation, @damiancollins, @tracybrabin, and @adrianlovett
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
At EARN IT Act hearing, Sen. Blumenthal says the “bill says nothing about encryption”, while industry groups allege it may force them to drop E2E encryption — - At a hearing Wednesday, senators disputed tech industry claims that a new bill targeting tech's legal shield would necessarily prohibit encryption.
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| Alexandria Williams / Quartz: |
Inside TikTok's strategy to get a foothold in Africa: signing up Instagram and YouTube creators, hiring staff in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, and more — Early this year, the short video app TikTok joined Nairobi Garage, a leading coworking space in Nairobi's Kilimani district.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation identifies owner of 60+ browser extensions which engaged in a long-running ad fraud scheme and were removed as part of a Google crackdown in Feb — It was a weed that Google kept trying and failing to kill. — The browser extension MyPDF kept appearing and being removed from the Chrome Web Store.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will enable ads on a limited number of videos about coronavirus, including from some news partners and creators who accurately self-certify — Weeks after YouTube declared automatic demonetization — YouTube is reassessing its policies in an effort to let some creators monetize videos …
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YouTube Creator Blog, TechCrunch, Mashable, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, Social Media Today, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, Tubefilter, and Neowin
Tweets: @ytcreators, @lily_marston, @keemstar, @chubbyemu, @rickyftw, @teamyoutube, @kodeetyler, @mattg124, and @mamadoctorjones
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
A Washington, DC judge struck down a key 2018 Trump admin H-1B visa requirement on Tuesday that IT companies deemed onerous and caused a spike in visa denials — In a win for big tech companies, a judge has ruled that onerous requirements the Trump administration has placed on H-1B visa holders are “irrational” and “invalid.”| Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: |
UK will introduce a 2% tax on search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces with $650M+ annual revenue and £25M+ UK revenue starting on April 1 — The U.K. government has confirmed that it will levy a 2% tax on “the revenues of search engines, social media services …
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GOV.UK, EURACTIV.com, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, and Engadget
Tweets: @johnkoetsier and @katyhowell
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Leaked images of billboard mockups show the Pixel 4a will have a starting price of $399, the same starting price as the Pixel 3a — With the cancellation of a physical Google I/O event, we're not sure when Google plans to launch its Pixel 4a smartphone. Today, though, a fresh leak …
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