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While traffic surges on Facebook, with messaging up 50% from last month in many countries, their now-remote workforce struggles to handle its own IT snafus — The social network is straining to deal with skyrocketing usage as its 45,000 employees work from home for the first time.
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Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year — More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America is about the virus, according to an internal report.
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YouTube will change the default video resolution to standard definition worldwide for a month starting today to ease internet traffic — - Videos will default to standard definition worldwide — YouTube, Netflix already reduced video quality in Europe
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPad Pro 2020 review: it's fast with a great display and excellent trackpad support, but iPadOS limitations remain and its lidar tech may get little use — An iterative year-over-year update — Apple's tagline for the new 2020 iPad Pro models is “Your next computer is not a computer.”
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple SVP of People and Retail says in internal memo that Apple expects to start reopening its retail stores in the first half of April on a staggered basis — Apple Inc. expects to start re-opening its retail stores in the first half of April on a staggered basis and has extended remote work abilities …
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| Instagram: |
Instagram to remove some coronavirus-related content and accounts from recommendations and Explore, with exceptions for credible health organizations — People who search for information related to the coronavirus or COVID-19 on Instagram will start to see an educational message connecting … | Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region — D.C. gets an ‘A’ while Wyoming earns an ‘F’ for following coronavirus stay-at-home advice, based on the locations of tens of millions of phones| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Apple updates Safari to fully block third-party cookies by default, months after Google said it would do the same in Chrome by 2022 — Beating Google by two years to the privacy feature — Apple on Tuesday released a major update to its Safari Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) …
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Sources: Facebook's in talks to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in Reliance Jio to expand its presence in India; source says it was nearing deal for a 10% share — Deal seeks to expand social media giant's presence in India stalled by coronavirus travel ban| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mobile-only banking app Revolut, which has 10M+ customers in Europe, is launching in the US today — European fintech startup Revolut is launching its app and service in the U.S. Starting today, anybody can sign up and get a Revolut debit card. In the U.S., Revolut has partnered …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla launches Firefox Better Web with Scroll for Firefox tracking protection and Scroll's ad-free browsing experience for $2.50/mo. for the first six months — Mozilla just announced a new initiative called Firefox Better Web with Scroll, which combines the tracking protection built …
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| Laura Baldwin / O'Reilly Media: |
O'Reilly Media announces it is canceling all of its upcoming in-person conferences and shutting down that portion of its business indefinitely — It has been a rough few weeks as we've seen the COVID-19 virus take a toll on our livelihoods, our families and the world economy.
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Yelp and GoFundMe team up to promote local business fundraisers, with GoFundMe campaigns automatically appearing on Yelp business profiles — Following the announcement that it's committing $25 million in waived fees and free services to support local businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases iOS 13.4, iPadOS 13.4, macOS 10.15.4, tvOS 13.4, and watchOS 6.2 to the public — Following a 1.5-month beta testing period and a 3-month gap between point releases, Apple today officially released versions 13.4 of iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS to the public, alongside macOS 10.15.4 and watchOS 6.2.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple rolls out its Universal Purchase system, letting devs bundle macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and iPadOS apps, sharing in-app purchases across iOS and macOS — Apple has announced that it is officially launching the ability for developers to sell Mac and iOS apps as a single purchase.
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates Apple Card's privacy policy to share more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, to help some users secure or expand credit, allows opt out via email — Apple is updating its privacy policy for Apple Card to enable sharing more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, its financial partner.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Brave partners with Binance to include a widget on the new tab page that lets users buy, trade, and receive cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ethereum — Web browser Brave is expanding its cryptocurrency features with an integration with cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
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| Check Point Research: |
Ad fraud malware found in 24 children's Android games and 32 utility apps, downloaded nearly 1M times, before being removed from the Google Play Store — Research by Israel Wernik, Danil Golubenko , Aviran Hazum — Although Google has taken steps to secure its Play store and stop malicious activity …
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| Scott Nover / Adweek: |
Pinterest introduces a new Today tab, a central hub including curated topics and trending posts, as users flock to the service during the pandemic — Today tab will be a hub for WHO and CDC Information — Key insights: — Today is here. — On Tuesday, Pinterest introduced its new Today tab …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Spotify confirms it will no longer work with third-party DJ apps starting on July 1, affecting developers like Algoriddim — Spotify will no longer work with third-party DJ apps starting on July 1st, 2020. The news was posted by Algoriddim, the developer behind a popular DJ software for iOS called Djay.Sponsor Posts
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