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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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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10 — New York (CNN Business)Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft posts an advisory about a new wormable flaw in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019; there's currently no patch available, but there are workarounds — Critical bug in Microsoft's SMBv3 implementation published under mysterious circumstances. — Word leaked out on Tuesday …
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Tom's Guide, Naked Security, Threatpost, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, WinBuzzer, SANS Internet Storm Center …, LaptopMag, OnMSFT.com, and The Hacker News
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| CNBC: |
Microsoft says it is unifying its Research groups, bringing them under Peter Lee and appointing Eric Horvitz as its first chief scientific officer — - Eric Horvitz, who has been with Microsoft since 1993, is now the company's chief scientific officer. — Peter Lee is taking on all of Microsoft Research with the change.
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| Rama Venkat / Reuters: |
Uber says it may temporarily suspend drivers and riders who have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19, will compensate quarantined drivers for up to 14 days — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) notified riders and drivers that it may temporarily suspend the accounts of anyone …
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| 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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| 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 — The listings highlight the challenge that Amazon has faced as consumers have turned to the company for a variety of goods and information.
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Protocol, Wired, and The Daily Dot
Tweets: @cthaxton7, @dangillmor, @oneunderscore__, @stevemullis, @claireatki, @richardmadan, @oneunderscore__, @oneunderscore__, @oneunderscore__, @kenlayne, @oknox, @peterwsinger, @oneunderscore__, @ali_lev, @patrickclaybon, @mikebeauvais, @oneunderscore__, @oneunderscore__, @hshaban, @zoeyorkwrites, @brandyzadrozny, @authormsbev, @oneunderscore__, and @maxtemkin
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at 10-year-old Vicarious, which buys standard industrial robots, enhances them with its AI software, and contracts them out; Vicarious has raised $130M+ — Vicarious, a secretive 10-year-old startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, reveals its progress and an initial customer.| 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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| 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.”| 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 — A bipartisan congressional committee is urging the federal government to enact a sweeping set of cybersecurity upgrades in order …
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Axios, Wired, CNET, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Protocol
Tweets: @ericgeller, @wired, @shanvav, and @brfreed
| 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.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
NorthOne, a New York-based digital bank that provides a banking app for small businesses, announces a $21M Series A raise led by Battery Ventures — NorthOne, a digital challenger bank focused on small businesses, announced this morning a $21 million Series A raise.Sponsor Posts
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