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May 19, 2020, 10:30 PM
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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About Facebook, Engadget, The Verge, The Verge, Shopify Blog, Los Angeles Times, CBS News, The Next Web, Shopify's pressreleases, SiliconANGLE, Input, Silicon Valley Business …, The Irish Times, Silicon Republic, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, iDownloadBlog.com, Axios, Mashable, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @facebook, @sameer_singh17, @mosseri, @benedictevans, @atharproject, @joshelman, @kurtwagner8, @mdudas, @thecord3, @wongmjane, @chrismessina, @facebook, @marcusanz, @brij, @ryan_browne_, @realdenniscao, and @sethmcguire. Thanks:@sal19
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences, accounting for consumer traits like body type, skin tone, location, socioeconomic class, age, and poses — Facebook today announced improvements to the shopping experiences across its platform, including Facebook Shops …
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Facebook Technology, Facebook AI, Engadget, Fortune, Up News Info, and Vox
Tweets: @tonyromm, @epro, and @chrismessina
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, .NET Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Microsoft Docs, PCWorld, Liliputing, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, SlashGear, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @tomwarren, @dotnet, @qmatteoq, @withinrafael, @ow, @codemillmatt, @tiraniddo, @jeremydmiller, and @jamesmontemagno
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is improving its Windows Subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, as its Terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0 — Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration — Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux …
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Windows Command Line, Windows Latest, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @carcinloring, @dosnostalgic, @stevestreeting, @emangare, @koush, @tomwarren, @backlon, @eevee, @richturn_ms, @tobi_lehman, @cabbagebrains, and @mcclure111
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
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CNET, Windows Command Line, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Petri, Liliputing, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @film_girl, @backlon, @whatthebit, and @tomwarren
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV+ to build a back catalog; as of February it had ~10M subscribers but only half actively used it — - Company wants to create back catalog to complement originals — TV+, launched in November, had 10 million sign-ups by February
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Deadline, CNBC, The Verge, TechRadar.com, The Mac Observer, Macworld, iMore, Input, Redmond Pie, Android Authority, GameSpot, and IndieWire
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features — Google today launched Chrome 83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 83 includes redesigned safety and privacy settings … | The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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NBC News, CNBC, Android Authority, Droid Life, and Android Central
Tweets: @aprilaser, @jerrycap, @loudmouthjulia, @davidclinchnews, @rdrv3, and @backlon
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, TechCrunch, Laptop Mag, Thurrott, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, and PCWorld
Tweets: @tomwarren, @hamburger, @jorilallo, @anaisbetts, @haroonchoudery, and @tomwarren
| BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of ~9M passengers were stolen; some payment info also leaked; it learned of the attack in January — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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Investis Digital, The Guardian, Graham Cluley, Bloomberg, The Register, CyberScoop, Tom's Guide, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @weldpond, @petefirman, @dvatw, @ccleaner, @samnewman, @mikko, and @joetidy
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments — The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Synapse Link, an enterprise service that uses an approach called “hybrid transaction/analytical processing” to analyze data more quickly — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service …
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Cloud Computing Services, Microsoft, GeekWire, Protocol, Engadget, VentureBeat, and ZDNet
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy, put people on shifts, and require temperature checks and masks when it reopens workplaces in July — - Company plans to put employees on shifts to reduce numbers — Grab-and-go meals, temperature checks, updated shuttles coming
Tweets: @kurtwagner8
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes — A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
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Spotify, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Vox, Variety, iMore, Telegraph, Axios, Reclaim The Net, Tubefilter, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, dexerto.com, Mashable, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @joerogan, @yay_yee, @kaibrach, @erockradio, @blakeir, @lucas_shaw, @greentoethegod, @reckless, @mgsiegler, @sarafischer, @benyt, @jasonrmcintyre, @desparobinson, @sbyrnes, @beirutspring, @dylanbyers, @ryanlawler, @yay_yee, @nongaap, @news_maker, @priaribi, @ow, @mdudas, @ischafer, @perreau, @spotifynews, @jessesingal, @rizzn, @cernovich, @wolfejosh, @b_yousra, @cernovich, @ericrweinstein, @marcoarment, @benthompson, @joshconstine, @bzamayo, @evoterra, @kantrowitz, @benyt, @mhbergen, @baxiabhishek, and @kfcbarstool
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate — Microsoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum.
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Microsoft Blog, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Forrester, ZDNet, and OnMSFT.com. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
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VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, Engadget, Thurrott, Laptop Mag, TechCrunch, Neowin, and Windows Central. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Chinese fitness app Keep raises $80M Series E at a $1B valuation led by Jeneration Capital Management — Chinese fitness app Keep has become the country's first sports tech startup to achieve a $1 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series E funding round led …
Tweets: @ruima
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Bitfury: share of bitcoin sent to mixers by darknet entities rose to 20% in Q1 2020, up from 1% in Q1 2019 — The use of bitcoin mixing services by darknet entities is growing, according to a new report by Bitfury's crypto analytics unit Crystal Blockchain.
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Crystal Blockchain Analytics …, CoinDesk, and CoinSpice
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online, raises $60M led by B Capital; source: startup valued at ~$300M — Khatabook, a startup that is helping small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept payments online with an app …
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The Economic Times
| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it won't “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry”, after new Greenpeace report on Big Oil ties — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out
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Greenpeace USA, Associated Press, Axios, Telegraph, Microsoft on the Issues, Forbes, Digital Trends, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @doctorvive, @jimmylevendia, @alixtrot, @greenpeaceusa, @willoremus, @wokyleeks, @climatekeith, @andrewwinston, @ozm, and @mer__edith
| EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone: |
Some sex workers on OnlyFans say they are being pushed out in favor of mainstream celebrities and influencers, as the site is scrutinized amid SESTA/FOSTA laws — As the site's popularity booms during our current health crisis, some worry their NSFW content will be purged
Tweets: @cherubbrat, @racebaitr, @rizzn, and @lauraagustin
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
The SD Association unveils new SD 8.0 spec, with SD Express card speeds reaching 3940 MB/s with PCIe 4.0 support, roughly four times the speed of current cards — As resolutions and file sizes continue to grow, it's important for storage —especially removable storage—to keep up …
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Business Wire, The Verge, BetaNews, and Engadget
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identity of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.
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US-CERT, BIAS, TechSpot, 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, WeLiveSecurity, AppleInsider, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, and forklog.media. Tweets: @lukolejnik
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