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Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues — Introducing the company's independent oversight board. — The authors are co-chairs of Facebook's oversight board. — Social media affects people's lives in many ways, good and bad.
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Microsoft debuts 13.5-inch and 15-inch Surface Book 3 laptops with 10th-gen quad-core Intel CPUs, new NVIDIA GPUs, available May 21 from $1,600 and $2,300 — With the Surface Book 2, Microsoft proved it could take on the MacBook Pro directly with a powerful and genuinely innovative PC notebook.
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| Panos Panay / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft announces $250 Surface Headphones 2 with better sound and battery, arriving on May 12, and says its Surface Buds will ship on the same day for $200 — Available for preorder today, new Surface devices and accessories are designed to help you work, learn, connect and play from anywhere
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Surface Go 2 with a bigger 10.5-inch display and more powerful Intel processors in higher-end models, coming May 12, starting at $400 — The smaller Surface gets a big hardware bump — Microsoft's smallest Surface tablet is getting some important hardware upgrades today in the form of the Surface Go 2.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android 11 Beta 1 is being pushed back to June 3, about a month behind schedule, but the final release is still on track for Q3 — Back in February, Google laid out plans for three Android 11 developer previews and betas. The company delivered the first half on that schedule amid COVID-19 … | Ellen Hammett / Marketing Week: |
Study: half of the money brands invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers; 15% of the money is unattributable to supply chain players — A new study by ISBA has found that half the money advertisers invest in programmatic advertising never reaches online publishers …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Sources: Google to release a Fire TV-like Android TV dongle with a new content-centric UI in the coming months, likely extending its Nest brand to the product — Google is set to introduce an Android TV streaming device in the coming months, a reimagined dongle with a new user interface …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber says it will lay off 3,700 employees, or ~14% of its workforce, as it has been hit hard by the pandemic; CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will forgo his base salary — Uber announced Wednesday that it will lay off 3,700 employees. The cuts to its customer support and recruiting teams represent …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Loon partners with AT&T to extend the cellular network coverage using its balloons globally in case of disasters — Alphabet-owned Loon, the company focused on providing connectivity via high-altitude, stratosphere skimming balloons that can act as on-demand, deployable cell towers … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub announces new features, including Codespaces, a free cloud-based developer environment now in beta that's based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor — Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
NFC Forum unveils its Wireless Charging Specification, allowing 1 watt charging for smaller devices — It might soon be much easier to buy a smartphone that can charge small devices like earbuds or smartwatches. The NFC Forum, responsible for near-field communications tech, has unveiled the Wireless Charging Specification (WLC).
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| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
Facebook tries again to offer “free” mobile web access with data limits, partnering with telecoms in Peru to offer a Discover app that lets users visit any site — Remember Free Basics? Facebook's ambitious program to bring people to the internet for the first time.
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee makes a rare apology, saying he will not hand over management of the company to his children, and vows to protect labor rights — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, embroiled in a bribery scandal, on Wednesday made a rare apology …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
European Data Protection Board publishes updated guidelines arguing that scrolling and “cookie walls”, which block users from content, don't constitute consent — You can't make access to your website's content dependant on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview with Apple SVP Craig Federighi about the iPadOS cursor, a significant change to the pointer paradigm, and the decisions Apple made to get there — Apple SVP Craig Federighi talks about the iPad's new cursor and Magic Keyboard — Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Security researchers say India's contact tracing app, mandated for many workers and downloaded over 90M times, could leak patient GPS data — The system's use of GPS data could let hackers pinpoint who reports a positive diagnosis. — As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Q&A with Steven Sinofsky on his upcoming memoir that chronicles his time at Microsoft, as he reflects on how the company fought the ILOVEYOU virus 20 years ago — On the 20th anniversary of the unleashing of the ILOVEYOU virus—which infected millions of PCs worldwide …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo says it will sell Lidar-equipped self-driving cars to consumers starting in 2022 using Lidar startup Luminar's cheaper sensors — Volvo's new platform will include high-powered laser sensors — an industry rarity — Most new cars sold today include a bevy of sensors such as cameras … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match says Tinder will launch in-app one-on-one video chats later this year, as growth falls during the pandemic, although most details are TBA — A big undertaking for one of the world's largest dating apps — Tinder is going to launch its own in-app, one-on-one video chats later this year.
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Google, Gates Foundation, and others form the Mojaloop Foundation, which will develop an open source digital payments platform for developing countries — For more than a decade, Kenyans from the bustling capital of Nairobi to far-flung farms have had access to a digital payments service that was ahead of its time.| Bloomberg: |
Spotify CEO expects Apple to “open up” its platform more to 3rd-party apps, after Spotify's antitrust complaint with the EU, but sees it as a long-term process — - Apple plans to let other music services integrate with HomePod — Ek says ‘steps to go before’ Apple is open and fair platform
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
With gyms closed, sales of the $2,245 Peloton connected smart bike have surged; Peloton's stock has risen 86% since mid-March, valuing the company at $10B — With gyms closed and nowhere to go, more people are shelling out $2,245 for the workout bike. — Lauren Allbright, a teacher …
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @eringriffith, @kerrymflynn, @pranavdixit, and @aaronwall
| Divya Balji / Bloomberg: |
Shopify tops estimates with Q1 revenue of $470M, up 47% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $17.4B, up 46% YoY — - First-quarter revenue jumped 47% to $470 million from 2019 — Gross merchandise volume soared 46% to $17.4 billion — Shopify Inc. reported first-quarter revenue …
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Tweets: @thestalwart, @theabridgedzach, @bloombergca, @mdudas, @sarthakgh, @bradelliottsa, and @alex
| Alex Davies / Wired: |
Profile of Ford-backed Argo AI and its CEO Bryan Salesky, who previously worked at CMU's Robotics Institute and as a Google hardware lead for self-driving cars — Meet Brian Salesky and the team of resourceful engineers at Argo, the little company trying to crack a big problem: safe autonomous driving.
Tweets: @wired
| Charles Fishman / The Atlantic: |
How internet infrastructure, like that from AT&T, has managed to cope during the lockdown, as people stream media and work remotely — How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it — Journalist and author of One Giant Leap — Here's a question … | Shannon Liao / CNN: |
Activision Blizzard CEO says people may turn to free mobile games during the pandemic, after the company beat Q1 expectations with sales of $1.52B, up 21% YoY — New York (CNN Business)While much of the economy is hurting during the pandemic, video games are thriving.
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