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Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers — Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been …
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Apple updates its 13" MacBook Pro with the Magic Keyboard, available to order today from $1,299; model with 10th-gen Intel CPUs and faster RAM starts at $1,799 — Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The new 13" MacBook Pro marks the end of Apple's butterfly keyboards, which debuted in 2015 and remained unreliable despite numerous iterations — In Apple's product lineup, at least — With today's announcement of a new 13-inch MacBook Pro, Apple has finally stopped trying to fix …
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Microsoft says there's been a 75% YoY jump in time spent in Windows 10, and Windows 10X, originally pitched for dual-screen devices, is coming first to laptops — More people are turning to Windows PCs during the pandemic — Microsoft is confirming today that it's planning to refocus Windows 10X on single-screen devices.
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Sources: Uber is in talks to lead $170M investment in Lime at a $510M valuation, down 79% from last valuation, and will get option to buy Lime between 2022-2024 — Uber is in talks to lead a $170 million financing in scooter rental firm Lime, whose business has dropped sharply amid the coronavirus pandemic …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google release sample code, UI screenshots, detailed policies for COVID-19 exposure notification apps, including prohibiting location data collection — Apple and Google are providing additional resources for developers working with the first version of their Exposure Notification API …
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| William Foxley / CoinDesk: |
NEAR, a blockchain project for running dapps, says it closed a $21.6M token sale led by a16z — NEAR, a blockchain project for running decentralized applications (dapps), announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
A hacker allegedly bribed an employee of massively popular game Roblox and was able to look up info on high profile users, reset passwords, and more — A hacker bribed a Roblox worker to gain access to the back end customer support panel of the massively popular online video game …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel says it is buying the urban mobility platform Moovit for approximately $900M — On the heels of a spate of reports over the weekend, today Intel confirmed its latest move to grow its automotive division: the chip giant is acquiring Moovit, an Israeli startup previously backed by Intel …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
PewDiePie signs an exclusive livestreaming deal with YouTube, following similar deals between YouTube and other stars in recent months — PewDiePie will be live-streaming exclusively on YouTube under a new pact. — To date, Felix Kjellberg — the prankster and videogame creator better known …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce unveils Work.com, a suite of apps aimed at helping companies and governments navigate reopening offices amid the pandemic — - Software can organize shifts, manage emergency responses — U.S. government increasingly keen to lift stay-at-home orders
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia acquires Cumulus Networks, which offers a Linux distribution for networking hardware and had previously raised a total of $134M — Nvidia today announced its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, an open-source centric company that specializes in helping enterprises optimize their data center networking stack.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Poynter Institute launches a COVID-19 chatbot on WhatsApp that uses information from 100+ independent fact-checkers in 70+ countries to debunk falsehoods — You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . — Poynter Institute … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
American political candidates are having to improvise as campaigning moves entirely online, with down-ballot hopefuls starting to look a lot like influencers — On Wednesday, the field director for Mel Gagarin's congressional campaign sat shirtless — illuminated by candlelight …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Robinhood raises $280M Series F led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $8.3B, and says it's added 3M funded accounts since the beginning of the year — The popular stock-picking app Robinhood announced on Monday it raised a Series F funding round that will see the company valued at $8.3 billion.
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| Alexander Cornwell / Reuters: |
Uber says its Middle East business Careem is cutting 536 jobs, or 31% of its workforce, and Uber Eats will shutter in several markets including the Middle East — DUBAI (Reuters) - Uber Technologies' Careem subsidiary on Monday announced it was cutting 536 jobs this week … | VICE: |
TikTok stars, many of them young and holding down other jobs, are struggling to make money, despite millions of views, due to a lack of monetization tools — This story is part of the VICE guide to 2030. Reach more here. — Keondra is 20 years old, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota …
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @robhorning, @laurenkgurley, and @motherboard
| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
The pandemic forced many restaurants to pivot to food delivery, increasing their reliance on services like DoorDash and GrubHub even after lockdowns lift — Social distancing is pushing restaurants toward delivery-only models powered by tech platforms — Bua Vanitsthian says she's always been passionate about food.
Tweets: @modestproposal1, @bcmerchant, @sarahnemerson, @yeahyeahyasmin, @ozm, @dlberes, and @ozm
| Mark Haranas / CRN: |
Cloud computing company Nutanix will implement two seperate, one-week unpaid furloughs affecting 1,465 employees in California, ~25% of its global workforce — 'Nutanix services will remain fully available, and the furloughs have been structured so that our customers should experience little … Sponsor Posts
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