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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.
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
ESA says E3, scheduled for early June as a three-day event, has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns
Clare Duffy / CNN:
Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10
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.
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.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Google says G Suite now has more than 2B MAUs  —  Google's G Suite, which includes Gmail, Google Docs, Hangouts, Meet and other apps, quietly passed a major milestone at the end of last year: It now has more than 2 billion monthly active users, G Suite boss Javier Soltero told Axios Wednesday.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others sign an open letter opposing more than dozen bills across the US that target LGBTQ citizens  —  Apple is among 40 companies voicing opposition to recent bills introduced across the United States that target LGBTQ citizens.
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
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Investigation identifies owner of 60+ browser extensions that 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.
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.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Amazon rolls out Alexa-enabled voice shopping in India, available on Android “primarily in English”, the first time Amazon launched the feature outside the US  —  Amazon today rolled out Alexa-enabled voice-powered shopping feature in India as the e-commerce giant looks for new ways …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Beijing-based Neolix Technologies, which says it has sold 225 level 4 autonomous delivery vehicles to clients like Alibaba, adds ~$29M to its ~$14.8M Series A  —  Neolix Technologies, a self-driving logistics startup based primarily in Beijing, today confirmed that it closed a roughly RMB 200 million …
Gordon Gottsegen / Built In Los Angeles:
LA-based Albert, a platform that helps people automate their finances and connects subscribers to human financial advisers, raises $50M Series B  —  LA-based fintech startup Albert just announced it raised a $50 million Series B funding round led by CapitalG — the growth equity investment firm from Google parent company Alphabet.

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Wall Street Journal:
A profile of incoming FCC Chair Brendan Carr, a telecom lawyer and longtime FCC official who believes tech and media companies have been unfair to conservatives

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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
Q&A with Julia Angwin on how social media creators flipped the traditional journalism process for telling stories and what journalists can learn from creators

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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
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

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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Investigation finds that books dominating Amazon's search results on COVID-19 are often plagiarized from news outlets, with authors lacking verifiable IDs
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
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
Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop:
Bipartisan congressional committee report gives 75 recommendations for how US government should approach cyber security issues, from Cyber Command's goals to 5G
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
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