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| Dave Clark / The Amazon Blog: |
Amazon plans to hire 100K more warehouse and delivery workers in the US and raise their pay by ~$2/hour in some countries, as more turn to online deliveries — Company will invest over $350 million globally to increase pay by $2/hour in the U.S., £2/hr in the UK …
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Android Central, Neowin, The Irish Times, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, TechCrunch, TheStreet, CNBC, Business Insider, Engadget, Telegraph, Reuters, GeekWire, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and The Verge
Tweets: @jaycarney, @phillyjoed, @firstadopter, @jess4liberty, and @rdrv3
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon confirms at least five workers at its warehouses in Spain and Italy have tested positive for the coronavirus, says the facilities will remain open — At least five workers at Amazon.com Inc. warehouses in Europe have contracted the coronavirus, a sobering development …
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CNBC and GeekWire
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube say they're working with each other and healthcare agencies to tackle misinfo about COVID-19 — Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube put out joint statement promising to fight COVID-19 fraud and curb misinformation.
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Tweets: @microsoft, @fbnewsroom, @googlepubpolicy, @twittercomms, @twittersafety, @carnage4life, @shiraovide, and @reddit
| New York Times: |
As the COVID-19 outbreak discourages moviegoers and theatrical releases get delayed, the ascendancy of streaming services may be accelerating — Cinemas, already contending with streaming services, are now facing the prospect of no audiences and no new films because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hollywood Reporter, Comcast Corporation, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @polygon, @lwhannell, @nuekerk, and @politicalmath
| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
Universal Pictures to offer $19.99 online rentals for some new movies, currently in theaters, and do the same for an upcoming DreamWorks film on its release day — In light of the movie theaters being brought to a standstill, Universal Pictures is changing the game.
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New York Times, Engadget, and Vox
| Nat Friedman / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub announces it has signed an agreement to acquire npm, which is home to 1.3M+ JavaScript packages with 75B downloads per month, says it will remain free — I'm excited to announce that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. — npm is a critical part of the JavaScript world.
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The npm Blog, BetaNews, ZDNet, CNBC, Wired, Build5Nines, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Business Insider, Thurrott, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @mrahmadawais, @seldo, @ow, @nearform, @seldo, @aral, @stevesi, @npmjs, and @parasight
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 14 code shows Apple is planning an iPhone 9 and iPhone 9 Plus with the A13 Bionic chip, the same processor used in the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro — 9to5Mac has learned several new details about the upcoming iPhone 9 based on iOS 14 code. Now we've discovered evidence that Apple …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft, White House OSTP, and Allen Institute help in identifying and releasing 24,000+ articles on coronaviruses for free, for medical and NLP researchers — The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), a repository of more than 29,000 scholarly articles about coronavirus family viruses …
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MIT Technology Review, SiliconANGLE, FedScoop, Nextgov, STAT, GeekWire, TechCrunch, and Business Insider
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| The Keyword: |
YouTube says it will be relying more on automated systems as content moderators stay home, and creators may see fewer strikes against videos but more removals — During the unprecedented COVID-19 situation, many companies are closing their offices and directing their employees to work from home …
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Android Police, Twitter, Mashable, Social Media Today, Tubefilter, International Business Times, Input, Adweek, Reclaim The Net, Gizchina, Search Engine Journal, Social Media Today, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Variety, Protocol, 9to5Google, The Verge, Engadget, CNBC, Neowin, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @rkyncl, @youtubeinsider, and @ytcreators
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, raises $175M Series E from Franklin Templeton Investments at a $5.1B valuation — The rise of the cloud over the past decade has forced software developers and DevOps engineers to completely rearchitect the modern web application …
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GlobeNewswire and SiliconANGLE
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says 1B devices are now running Windows 10, which includes PCs, laptops, Xbox One consoles, and HoloLens — Microsoft's original milestone has been reached — Microsoft is revealing today that 1 billion active machines are now running Windows 10.
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Windows Blog, VentureBeat, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, and Business Insider
Tweets: @panos_panay, @digitallybones, and @tomwarren
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
US ITC to investigate alleged touchscreen patent violations in parts used by Apple, Amazon, ASUS, Microsoft, Motorola, LG, Samsung, and Sony — The U.S. International Trade Commission on Monday said it plans to probe a number of tech companies, including Apple, on patent infringement claims …
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USITC, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, and MacRumors
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin's price crash casts a shadow over mining firms, which have spent $500M+ since Sept. to prep for the “halving” in May, where mining rewards drop by 50% — Bitcoin's price crash last week has cast a shadow over mining firms, which have spent over half a billion dollars overhauling equipment …
Tweets: @coindesk, @digieconomist, and @ethan_vera
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Intercontinental Exchange's Bakkt raises $300M Series B with M12 among the investors, says an app to help consumers manage digital assets is coming in summer — Bakkt has raised a $300 million Series B round of financing, according to a Monday morning announcement.
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Bakkt Blog, Messari Crypto, InsideBitcoins.com, Cointelegraph, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Decrypt, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @bakkt, @cryptonator1337, @jeffjohnroberts, @mdudas, and @fintechfrank
| New York Times: |
Sources: Israel's Netanyahu has authorized the use of a previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to fight coronavirus; the move still requires approval — The information, intended for use in counterterrorism, would help identify people who have crossed paths with known patients.
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Reuters, Bloomberg, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @howelloneill, @motherboard, @razhael, @zenalbatross, @lorenzofb, @kashhill, @haaretzcom, @moorehn, @ronenbergman, and @ymurad__
| The Intercept: |
Leaked docs: TikTok told moderators to suppress posts from those deemed “ugly”, poor, or disabled, and censor political speech in livestreams, to attract users — The makers of TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing app with hundreds of millions of users around the world …
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Digital Trends, Input, Social Media Today, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tubefilter, CNET, Gizmodo, and Wccftech
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