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While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus — The social network is straining to deal with skyrocketing usage as its 45,000 employees work from home for the first time.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Analyst estimates Facebook and Google could lose $44B+ in 2020 global ad revenue due to COVID-19; Facebook says its ad business has weakened in affected places — Ad spending is falling off a cliff amid the COVID-19 pandemic — and Facebook and Google, the two heavyweights in digital advertising … | New York Times: |
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Google brings its Podcasts app to iOS and unveils a redesign of Android app, with users' listening habits syncable across platforms via Google Podcasts for Web — Just in time for our collective house arrests, Google has unveiled a redesigned version of Podcasts.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
WHO partners with Facebook, Microsoft, and other tech companies on #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon to develop software tackling COVID-19 challenges, starting Mar. 26 — - The World Health Organization has partnered with Facebook, Microsoft and several other tech companies for a hackathon to promote …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022 — Beating Google by two years to the privacy feature — Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) …
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| Chris Freeland / Internet Archive Blogs: |
Internet Archive launches National Emergency Library, letting users borrow 1.4M+ digitized books without joining a waitlist during the COVID-19 crisis — To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020 …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
iPhone makers Foxconn and Wistron have suspended all production at their Indian plants to comply with a nationwide lockdown — - Foxconn and Wistron are both complying with surprise lockdown — PM Modi has ordered population to stay at home for three weeks| Instagram: |
Instagram to remove some coronavirus-related content and accounts from recommendations and Explore, with exceptions for credible health organizations — People who search for information related to the coronavirus or COVID-19 on Instagram will start to see an educational message connecting … | NBC News: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
App Store rules, like a ban on services that stream from the cloud, limit iOS users from accessing rival gaming services from Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia — Video-game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple Inc. …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
How 3D printer makers like Stratasys, Protolabs, and other companies like Ford, are helping fight COVID-19 by 3D printing face shields and medical equipment — With critical medical gear in short supply, additive manufacturing is an “essential part” of the pandemic response, the industry says.
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| Hariz Baharudin / The Straits Times: |
Singapore will open source its contact-tracing app TraceTogether, which uses Bluetooth to identify people in extended close contact with COVID-19 patients — SINGAPORE - In a move to help the international community combat the coronavirus pandemic, the Government will be making the software …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook's Portal makes a lot of sense during a quarantine: it is great for video chatting and staying in touch, especially with kids and the elderly — The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus.
Tweets: @mattk, @jgreendc, @susan_hennessey, @ayshardzn, @sarafischer, @mattnavarra, and @kevinbankston
| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
Six US Amazon warehouses have at least one worker testing positive for COVID-19, with some facilities temporarily shut for cleaning and some workers quarantined — The spike in positive tests for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus comes as the ecommerce giant races to hire 100,000 workers to meet massive shopper demand.
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| Craig Mod / Wired: |
The iPad's cursor, a translucent circle with momentum and the ability to change form based on the context, is more convincing and simply more fun — Apple's new iPadOS 13.4 adds enhanced support for trackpads. And with that, a shiny new cursor. — I gasped when I first saw the iPad's new cursor … | Stephen Palley / The Block: |
NY federal court issues preliminary injunction against Telegram's 2018 $1.7B ICO, finding the distribution of Gram tokens likely violates US securities law — The $1.7 billion 2018 fundraising effort by Telegram hit a major snag today when a Federal Judge in New York issued …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
France announces a $4.3B plan to support startups including bridge funding, liquidity support measures, and faster tax returns and public support payments — France's Ministry of State for Digital Affairs Cédric O and public investment bank Bpifrance announced a comprehensive support plan for startups this morning.| Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg: |
WHO's WhatsApp global COVID-19 information service is launching in 20+ languages, aiming to reach 50M people, after successful trials in South Africa — - World Health Organization steps up social media communication — Service employs articial intelligence to offer range of topics
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Espressive, which aims to develop AI-driven chatbots to reduce calls to company help desks, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Partners — Espressive, a four-year-old startup from former ServiceNow employees, is working to build a better chatbot to reduce calls to company help desks.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple SVP of People and Retail says in internal memo that Apple expects to start reopening its retail stores in the first half of April on a staggered basis — Apple Inc. expects to start re-opening its retail stores in the first half of April on a staggered basis and has extended remote work abilities …
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Tweets: @lexnfx, @cvpayne, @jenniferjjacobs, @s_m_i, @kathleenconcan6, @astijesse, and @markgurman
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
How volunteers from tech companies and epidemiologists worked together to build the US-focused COVID-19 data aggregation website covidnearyou.com in six days — - Volunteers from Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and other tech companies worked every night for a week to make a website called covidnearyou.| Travis Andrews / Washington Post: |
As more people work and live in isolation during the pandemic, Apple's Screen Time tool is horrifying many users with skyrocketing usage reports — Michael Doyle was “horrified” upon receiving his iPhone's weekly screen time report. — The Toronto-based freelance journalist was already a self-described “heavy phone user.”
Tweets: @scohensea, @scarlet4urma, and @stampepk
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
YouTube Music can now show static lyrics, sourced from LyricFind, while listening to a song on its iOS and Android apps, with web player support coming soon — But lyrics aren't supported on the web player yet — YouTube Music users can now read lyrics while listening to a song … Sponsor Posts
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