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| Washington Post: |
Sources: the US government is in active talks with Facebook, Google, and others to use location data from Americans' smartphones to stem COVID-19's spread — The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts … | Joe Tidy / BBC: |
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google Translate debuts Transcribe for Android, letting users transcribe conversations in real-time across eight languages, with future plans to ship on iOS — Google Translate today launched Transcribe for Android, a feature that delivers a continual, real-time translation of a conversation.
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The Keyword, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Yahoo Finance, Android Central, CNET, ZDNet, Neowin, and The Next Web
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| The Information: |
Sources: Facebook says all employees will get a $1,000 bonus and earn at least their full bonus for their first 6-month review of 2020 amid COVID-19 crisis — Facebook will pay a $1,000 bonus to every employee, one of the first big companies to offer workers cash to help them during the coronavirus outbreak.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Facebook says it plans to award $100M in cash grants and ad credits for up to 30,000 small businesses in 30+ countries to address COVID-19's economic impact — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said Tuesday it plans to award $100 million in cash grants and ad credits for up to 30,000 small businesses …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Facebook has been marking some legitimate COVID-19 news articles and information as spam; Facebook says it's a bug in its anti-spam system, is fixing the issue — The company is fixing the posts and bringing them back — Facebook appears to be marking some posts linking to information … | Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
Uber suspends its Uber Pool feature in the US and Canada, and Lyft says it is pausing Shared rides across all its markets to reduce the spread of COVID-19 — Uber has suspended its Uber Pool feature in the United States and Canada due to the worsening outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers say Facebook's content moderation policies aren't enough because the core problem stems from ad targeting and algorithmically optimized content — In the face of the coronavirus outbreak, Facebook's misinformation problem has taken on new urgency.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Amazon prioritizes shipments of household staples and high-demand products to its warehouses, partially suspending Fulfillment by Amazon program through April 5 — - Amazon told sellers and vendors on Tuesday that it was suspending shipments of all nonessential products to its warehouses …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
HHS waives penalties for the use of non-HIPAA compliant video chatting services, like FaceTime and Skype, for telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak — The coronavirus crisis is pushing the US government to loosen one of its only laws on data privacy. The Department of Health and Human Services …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google postpones the rescheduled, online version of its Cloud Next conference until further notice, after canceling the in-person conference a few weeks ago — the in-person version of Cloud Next, its largest conference of the year, amid a flurry of similar coronavirus-related cancellations of major events.
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Google Cloud Blog, CNET, SDxCentral, Business Insider, 9to5Google, The Verge, and Android Police
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Financial companies Advantage Capital Funding and Argus Capital Funding left 425GB of data exposed online, including 500K+ sensitive files and legal docs — Half a million confidential legal and financial documents, at least, were exposed online. — An open database is the source … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says on its website that stores will be closed “until further notice”, after first saying they'd be closed until March 27 — Late on Friday, Apple announced that it would close all Apple Stores outside of Greater China until March 27th. Over the weekend …
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CNBC, CNET, MacDailyNews, Wccftech, iPhone Hacks, Appleosophy, Engadget, TechRadar.com, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacRumors
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Fox is buying ad-supported streaming service Tubi in $440M cash deal; Tubi remains separate company, deal mostly financed with proceeds from sale of Roku stake — With a focus on bringing sports and news to subscribers, not original content — Fox Corporation has acquired ad-supported … | New York Times: |
As the COVID-19 outbreak discourages moviegoers and theatrical releases get delayed, the ascendancy of streaming services may be accelerating — Cinemas, already contending with streaming services, are now facing the prospect of no audiences and no new films because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hollywood Reporter, Comcast Corporation, Engadget, and AppleInsider
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