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Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video say they will reduce their streaming quality in EU to reduce traffic on the network, as millions are confined at home — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Friday it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yelp commits $25M to local restaurants in waived fees and free services as its data shows US consumer interest in restaurants fell by 54% over the past week — Yelp announced this morning that it's making a number of changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sources: Apple's supply chain still disrupted by COVID-19-related shutdowns in countries like Malaysia; 5G iPhones still expected to launch by fall — - Virus responses in Malaysia, U.S., Europe disrupt suppliers — 5G iPhone currently still on schedule, but timeline could slip
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Twitter broadens its definition of harm to address content with deceptive language around COVID-19, including “denial of established scientific facts” — Site changes rules to ban content aimed at making people act against official advice — Twitter will remove tweets that run …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate, which promises to better unify the features and capabilities of PC gaming and the Xbox platform, coming later this year — Bringing a suite of software advancements in gaming graphics onto a single platform — Microsoft has a new version …
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| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Storj Labs launches a blockchain-based decentralized cloud storage service for enterprises at 50% lower pricing than AWS to securely store files and documents — Decentralized storage provider Storj Labs says its blockchain-based cloud service is now available for businesses and individuals to securely store files and documents.
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Instagram says it is internally testing a Snapchat-like ephemeral feature that clears chat messages after all members have viewed the thread and closed it — Instagram is finally preparing to copy Snapchat's most popular feature, and one of the few it hasn't already cloned.
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AWS commits $20M and launches a diagnostics development unit, with 35 partner orgs, to accelerate research to find a faster, more affordable test for COVID-19 — - Amazon is launching a diagnostics development unit through its cloud unit, AWS. — The idea is to back researchers with funds …
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YouTube unveils a COVID-19 “news shelf” on its homepage in 16 countries with verified content from authoritative news sources and health officials — Pulling from authoritative sources — YouTube will introduce a new row of verified videos to its homepage for anyone trying … | Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Court filing: Anthony Levandowski, ex-Uber self-driving head, pleads guilty to trade secrets theft from Google in exchange for 32 other charges being dropped — The guilty plea, which could lead to a prison sentence, is the latest twist in a years-long saga of conflict and courtroom drama
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Subreddit /r/coronavirus has become one of the most authoritative and up-to-date sites on COVID-19, with 1.2M+ members, 1M+ of which signed up in past two weeks — The Reddit message board /r/coronavirus has grown to more than 1.2 million members — almost a million of whom signed up in the last two weeks.| Stefan Seltz-Axmacher / Starsky Robotics 10–4 Labs: |
Self-driving truck startup Starsky Robotics is shutting down; CEO cites “unmet promise of AI” and says investors rejected the operator business model — In 2015, I got obsessed with the idea of driverless trucks and started Starsky Robotics. In 2016, we became …
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| Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter: |
GDC announces a new San Francisco event, GDC Summer, from August 4-6 after initially postponing the March event — The three-day event will be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center from August 4-6. — Informa Tech, the organizer of the annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco …
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Slack says it added around 7,000 new customers in the 47 days between February 1 and March 18, compared to the 5,000 it added in its most recent quarter — Today, Slack, a popular internal chat application, announced that it added 7,000 new customers between February 1 and March 18. That is 47 days.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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