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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google announces a new tab-grouping tool for Chrome, rolling out “slowly”, letting users cluster tabs together and organize them by name and color — Google is introducing a new feature to Chrome that will have you asking how you lived without it before.
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Tweets: @seldo, @theromit, @gvarisco, @ryanaraine, @blowdart, @runasand, @_bklmn, and @dali_codes
| Joe Maring / Android Central: |
Report: Google's Pixel division has lost Marc Levoy, the engineer leading the camera division, and GM Mario Queiroz over the past year, as sales disappoint — The general manager for the Pixel division is also gone. — What you need to know — According to The Information, Marc Levoy and Mario Queiroz have both left Google.
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Tweets: @andyboxall, @andrewmartonik, @laurengoode, @amir, @backlon, and @jasonhowell
| Martin Matishak / Politico: |
A bipartisan amendment to FISA to prohibit warrantless surveillance of Americans' online browsing and search histories failed in the Senate by one vote, 59-37 — Congressional privacy hawks scored a critical victory on Wednesday that deepens the uncertainty about the fate of expired federal surveillance powers.
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TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Mashable, VICE, Raw Story, and Bloomberg
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Dell announces a new XPS 17 and a redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays, only USB-C ports, and Intel 10th-gen CPUs, starting at $1,300 and $1,500 — Dell goes all USB-C and 16:10 for its XPS lineup — Dell is making some big changes to its XPS lineup today, with a redesigned XPS 15 and a new XPS 17.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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The Verge, Windows Central, CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech, PCWorld, and ZDNet
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| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Sources say Google has rolled back diversity programs, but Google disputes the claims and says it's adding outside help to scale racial equity training globally — One well-liked diversity training program at Google called Sojourn was cut entirely, according to seven former and current employees.
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Business Insider, Forbes, The Next Web, Input, and Digital Trends
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Uber says all riders and drivers will need to wear masks starting next week and introduces new tools to verify drivers are doing so before each trip — - Uber is launching a new tool that checks if drivers are wearing face masks before starting trips. — The ride-hailing firm … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
In an open letter, Brian Huseman, Amazon's VP of public policy, calls for the establishment of a federal price gouging law amid coronavirus scams — - In a blog post Wednesday, Brian Huseman, Amazon's vice president of public policy, called for the establishment of a federal price gouging law.
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Tweets: @b_huseman, @nanditab1, @viacristiano, @amazon_policy, @amazonnews, @bryan_caplan, and @lauren_feiner
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Epic Games unveils the Unreal Engine 5, coming in 2021, with a PlayStation 5 demo and says the Epic Online Services tools are available today — Epic says its new engine is a ‘quantum leap,’ and it'll arrive in 2021 — Epic Games today announced the next iteration of its game engine …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Trump extends an executive order banning US companies from using telecom equipment from companies like Huawei for another year — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday extended for another year an executive order signed in May 2019 declaring a national emergency …
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The Next Web, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Bloomberg, SlashGear, The Verge, Light Reading, and Engadget
| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Apple says its VP for Public Policy and Government Affairs Cynthia Hogan has resigned, following her appointment to Joe Biden's VP selection committee — Cynthia Hogan, Apple's vice president for public policy and government affairs, has resigned from the company, Apple said.
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| Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider: |
Filing: Kickstarter laid off 25 employees, or ~18% of its workforce; the company says 30 staff members took voluntary buyouts, taking total reductions to 39% — - Kickstarter is reducing its workforce by around 39%, the company confirmed on Wednesday. — “Through a combination …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Facebook brings Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, to the US after launching internationally last year — Avatars can be used in comments, messages, and stories — Facebook is now rolling out its customizable avatars in the US after first launching them internationally last year.
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| Reuters: |
A new French law compels internet giants to remove pedophile and terrorism-related content within an hour or face a fine of up to 4% of global revenue — PARIS (Reuters) - Social networks and other online content providers will have to remove paedophile and terrorism-related content …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Slack rolls out its redesign on iOS and Android, which launched on desktop in March, including new navigation icons and a new compose button — The updates build on Slack's desktop revamp back in March, which aimed to make the user interface more intuitive and organized.| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
DHS and FBI jointly accuse hackers affiliated with Chinese government of attempting to steal US research into a COVID-19 vaccine, adding to a slew of charges — The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI on Wednesday blamed hackers linked with the Chinese government for attempting …
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Reports: live-streaming grew 45% between March and April, and 99% YoY; Twitch saw the highest growth, as hours watched rose 50% from March to April and 101% YoY — Every platform grew, but Twitch is still the biggest — We finally have numbers to back up the wild view counts we've seen … | Lauren Debter / Forbes: |
Profile of Louis Borders, founder Borders bookstores, as his dotcom-era online grocery delivery service Webvan reemerges using a network of automated warehouses — Louis Borders is sure he can do it this time. He just needs time, money and customers. And more robots.| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Intel releases its 10th-gen Comet Lake vPro mobile and desktop CPUs, with mandatory hardware shield and Wi-Fi 6 integration — Chip giant releases nine mobile and 18 desktop Core and Xeon chips under the VPro badge. — Intel has released its latest batch of 14-nanometre chips.
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PCWorld, Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, and Windows Central
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco beats Q3 expectations with revenue of $12B, down 8% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue of $6.43B, down 15% YoY — - Cisco's results and quarterly guidance beat expectations. — The company said in the quarter it would allow customers to defer their payments with coronavirus spreading.
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Tweets: @cnbc, @danielnewmanuv, and @jordannovet
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon gives its Fire HD 8 tablet and Fire HD 8 “Kids Edition” a spec bump, adds a new Fire HD 8 Plus model with 3GB of RAM and Qi wireless charging — Along with a slight price increase to $89.99 — Amazon has announced a new update for its Fire HD 8 tablet, adding a faster processor, more RAM, and USB-C charging.
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Tweets: @ianstechyt, @dylanmcd8, and @dcseifert
| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Glassnode: addresses holding 10,000+ ETH, known as whales, have fallen to 1,050, the lowest since January 2019, while big bitcoin holders have been on the rise — While ether's (ETH) price has risen by nearly 50% this year, the number of addresses holding large amounts of the currency … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet's Loon signs deal with carrier Vodacom to bring its commercial internet service to Mozambique — Loon, the Alphabet -owned company that's using stratospheric balloons to provide high-speed bandwidth to hard-to-serve areas without strong ground infrastructure, has signed a new deal …
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| Max Willens / Digiday: |
Sources: Apple is asking the publishers participating in Apple News+ for permission to produce audio versions of stories, with Apple handling production costs — Apple News+ is pivoting to audio. — Over the past several months, Apple has been asking the publishers participating …
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @rstephens, @kerrymflynn, @chrismoranuk, @reneritchie, and @marklittlenews
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Cryptocurrency trading service FalconX raises $17M from Avon Ventures, Accel, and others — Over the last few weeks all eyes in the crypto world have been glued to the halvening, a nigh-religious moment in the blockchain realm. Every once in a while, the amount of new bitcoin mined …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Anyfin, whose app uses AI and publicly available data to help consumers refinance existing loans, raises $30M Series B led by EQT Ventures — Anyfin, the Stockholm-based startup that enables consumers to refinance their existing loans, has raised $30 million in funding.
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Amazon says it will extend hazard pay for warehouse workers, an extra $2 per hour, to the end of May, but will return to normal rates in June — Amazon warehouse workers have faced additional hazards throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Helen H. Richardson/Denver Post via Getty Images
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Tweets: @kimberlyforiowa, @filipihna, @repbonnie, and @voxdotcom
| Doug Black / HPCwire: |
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