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ESA says E3, scheduled for early June as a three-day event, has been canceled due to COVID-19 concerns — ESA announces it won't hold massive game marketing event for the first time since 1995. — [Update: In a message sent Wednesday morning, the ESA cited “growing concerns over [the] …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
Google recommends all North American employees work remotely until at least April 10 — New York (CNN Business)Google parent company Alphabet is recommending that all of its North America employees work from home through April 10 due to coronavirus, according to an email shown to CNN.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: during a meeting, the White House sought help from Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and others to combat coronavirus misinformation and track its spread — The White House on Wednesday sought new help from Amazon, Google and other tech giants in the fight against coronavirus …
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| Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: |
UK will introduce a 2% tax on search engines, social media services, and online marketplaces with $650M+ annual revenue and £25M+ UK revenue starting on April 1 — The U.K. government has confirmed that it will levy a 2% tax on “the revenues of search engines, social media services …
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Microsoft posts an advisory about a new wormable flaw in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019; there's currently no patch available, but there are workarounds — Critical bug in Microsoft's SMBv3 implementation published under mysterious circumstances. — Word leaked out on Tuesday … | Rama Venkat / Reuters: |
Uber says it may temporarily suspend drivers and riders who have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19, will compensate quarantined drivers for up to 14 days — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) notified riders and drivers that it may temporarily suspend the accounts of anyone …
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Microsoft says it is unifying its Research groups, bringing them under Peter Lee and appointing Eric Horvitz as its first chief scientific officer — - Eric Horvitz, who has been with Microsoft since 1993, is now the company's chief scientific officer. — Peter Lee is taking on all of Microsoft Research with the change.| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will enable ads on a limited number of videos about coronavirus, including from some news partners and creators who accurately self-certify — Weeks after YouTube declared automatic demonetization — YouTube is reassessing its policies in an effort to let some creators monetize videos …
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| Neha Malara / Reuters: |
TikTok says it will open a transparency center in LA in early May, letting experts evaluate its content moderation and later get insights into its source code — (Reuters) - Social media app TikTok is launching a content moderation center in a bid to boost transparency … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple says it will close all of its 17 retail stores in Italy from March 12 “until further notice” amid the COVID-19 outbreak — Apple Inc. said it is closing all 17 of its retail stores in Italy “until further notice” as the coronavirus pandemic limits activity in the country.
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Ahead of this month's SCOTUS review of Oracle's 2010 Java copyright infringement case against Google, a look at how Oracle once got rich by copying IBM's SQL — Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights. — More than a decade ago …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A look at 10-year-old Vicarious, which buys standard industrial robots, enhances them with its AI software, and contracts them out; Vicarious has raised $130M+ — Vicarious, a secretive 10-year-old startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, reveals its progress and an initial customer.| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Bipartisan congressional committee report gives 75 recommendations for how US government should approach cyber security issues, from Cyber Command's goals to 5G — A bipartisan congressional committee is urging the federal government to enact a sweeping set of cybersecurity upgrades in order …
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Interview with co-founders of Oxide Computer, which has raised $20M in funding to date to start a computer company to compete in the server market and rival HPE — Oxide Computer is a bold bet by three prominent engineers that some day, more and more companies will want cloudlike hardware under their own control.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU Commission outlines proposals for green initiatives related to tech: right-to-repair laws, ending premature obsolescence, and restricting single-use products — The European Commission has set out a plan to move towards a ‘right to repair’ for electronics devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops.
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Investigation finds that books dominating Amazon's search results on COVID-19 are often plagiarized from news outlets, with authors lacking verifiable IDs — The listings highlight the challenge that Amazon has faced as consumers have turned to the company for a variety of goods and information.| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
How Google used anti-fragmentation agreements to prevent TV manufacturers from using Amazon's Fire TV OS in smart TVs — The search giant has pressured TV manufacturers not to use Amazon's Fire TV system. — Amazon has sold millions of Fire TV streaming devices in recent years … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Analysis of 500+ search warrants and related docs: evidence on iPhones is typically inaccessible, though tools from Grayshift, Cellebrite, and others can work — With research support from Izzie Ramirez. — Law enforcement around the country have had varying degrees of success in trying …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus review: excellent screen and hardware with good battery life but 5G isn't worth the cost and only two years of software updates — By doing less than the S20 Ultra, Samsung achieves more — It's very easy to take the Galaxy S20 for granted.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Libra rival The Celo Foundation launches Alliance for Prosperity, a cryptocurrency developer platform, backed by 50+ partners including a16z and Coinbase — Some Libra Association members like Andreessen Horowitz and Coinbase are double-dipping, backing a competing cryptocurrency developer platform.| Maya Kosoff / Marker: |
How some high-profile direct-to-consumer startups have struggled to make their economics work amid rising customer acquisition costs — How venture capital became the most dangerous thing to happen to now-troubled DTCs like Outdoor Voices, Harry's, and Casper
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