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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: Airbnb raises another $1B in debt from investors including Apollo Global and Silver Lake, after raising a similar $1B funding round last week — New debt finance deal comes a week after an equal-sized funding round to help weather crisis — Airbnb is raising $1bn of senior debt …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon will cut commission rates for its affiliate program starting April 21; amount of drop dependent on category, rates for grocery products dropping 5% to 1% — - Amazon on Tuesday told members of its affiliates program that it will cut commission rates beginning April 21.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon says a manager at a facility in California died of COVID-19 on March 31, its first warehouse worker death; Amazon claims worker contracted virus offsite — A worker at an Amazon facility in California has died after contracting covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Washington AG Bob Ferguson sues Facebook, saying the company violated its commitment to not sell political ads in the state — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a new lawsuit against Facebook claiming the social network continues to violate state laws governing political ad disclosures.
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| Nat Friedman / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub announces private repositories with unlimited collaborators are now free and reduces the price of the existing paid Team plan from $9 to $4 per month — All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone. 🎉 — Until now, if your organization wanted to use GitHub …
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| CNBC: |
Apple launches a tool that shows how well people are social distancing, using anonymized data from Apple Maps, similar to efforts from Google — - Apple on Tuesday launched a new tool that shows how well people are following social distancing guidelines. — It gathers anonymous data …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches Video Builder, a simple, free DIY tool to help SMBs create short videos — YouTube today is launching a new tool aimed at small businesses who need a simple, low-cost way to create videos, but may not have the creative experience or technical know-how required to do so.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
OnePlus 8 review: has great battery life and solid performance with a 90Hz display, but camera could be better and it lacks wireless charging and an IP rating — The traditional strengths, plus the traditional omissions — Video by Alix Diaconis and Vjeran Pavic
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
China is ready to launch its first domestic blockchain platform, Blockchain Service Network, for application development; platform hints at global expansion — China is about to launch its national blockchain platform, part of the country's grand strategy to lead the digital transformation of the world economy.| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Nest will temporarily reduce the recording quality of its security cameras by default to reduce bandwidth impact amid COVID-19, users can easily revert change — Google is temporarily dropping Nest camera recording quality and bandwidth over the next few days in an attempt to reduce strain on ISPs and the internet in general.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts Kit, an Apple Watch app, for one-tap communication with close friends via audio recording, emoji, location sharing, scribble, more — Facebook's internal R&D group has today launched a new app that lets you keep up with your close friends via your Apple Watch.| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
In letter to senators, Verily says it has tested 7,390 people for COVID-19 as of April 9, less than a month after site launch, will keep Google login mandatory — - Google's Verily division has been screening and testing participants for COVID-19, but lawmakers are concerned over how it is collecting and using people's data.
Tweets: @gregbensinger
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The coronavirus crisis underscores the power and dominance of big tech companies, and that novel legislative approaches are required to regulate them — Apple and Google, who last Friday jointly | announced new capabilities for contact tracing coronavirus carriers at scale …
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| Andy Patrizio / Ars Technica: |
Folding@Home, a ~20 year-old distributed computing project aiding scientific research, has seen a surge in users, breaking an exaFLOP of compute amid COVID-19 — Folding@Home had settled into a low-profile niche. Then came COVID-19. — Almost 20 years ago, faculty in the chemistry department … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
NVCA report: 285 AI-related startups raised $6.9B in the US during Q1 2020, beating the pace of 2019's investments, as the overall VC market was roughly flat — AI startups continued to outpace the overall U.S. venture capital market in the first quarter of 2020, but the coronavirus is expected …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Two dozen US state AGs sent a letter to the White House requesting the administration pull blueprints for Defense Distributed's 3D-printed guns offline — Warns of ‘grave consequences’ for plastic firearms — Two dozen state attorneys general are asking the Trump administration to crack …
Tweets: @teamtrace
| Bloomberg: |
Animal Crossing: New Horizons, released on March 20 for Switch after a delay, is the big hit of the lockdown, with 3M+ domestic US sales, not including digital — In the past three weeks, millions of people locked up at home and tired of scanning coronavirus headlines have sought solace … Sponsor Posts
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