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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook Shops, a free tool that helps businesses easily list products on their Facebook Page, Instagram profile, Stories, or in ads — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook Shops, a new e-commerce feature that allows businesses to easily list their products on Facebook and Instagram.
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About Facebook, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, The Verge, Shopify Blog, Los Angeles Times, The Irish Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Shopify's pressreleases, Neowin, Social Media Today, Financial Times, Mashable, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, Axios, and Business Insider
Tweets: @facebook, @sameer_singh17, @thecord3, @ryan_browne_, @realdenniscao, @mosseri, @joshelman, @atharproject, @kurtwagner8, @mdudas, @wongmjane, @chrismessina, @facebook, @marcusanz, @brij, and @sethmcguire. Thanks:@sal19
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences, accounting for consumer traits like body type, skin tone, location, socioeconomic class, age, and poses — Facebook today announced improvements to the shopping experiences across its platform, including Facebook Shops …
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Facebook Technology, Vox, AdExchanger, Facebook AI, Fortune, ZDNet, and Engadget
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan's podcast, which he said had ~190M downloads/month in 2019, will become a Spotify exclusive this year; his YouTube will no longer have full episodes — A massive gain for the platform — Joe Rogan, comedian and host of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, is taking his show to Spotify.
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Wall Street Journal, Spotify, TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, Variety, Vox, CNET, Axios, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, dexerto.com, and Mashable
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, .NET Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Microsoft Docs, PCWorld, The Register, Liliputing, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, SlashGear, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @tiraniddo, @tomwarren, @dotnet, @qmatteoq, @withinrafael, @ow, @codemillmatt, @jeremydmiller, and @jamesmontemagno
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it is improving its Windows Subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, as its Terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0 — Linux on Windows 10 gets a big boost and GPU acceleration — Microsoft is promising to dramatically improve its Windows Subsystem for Linux …
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Windows Command Line, VentureBeat, Windows Latest, ZDNet, and OnMSFT.com
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Package Manager, native to Windows 10, letting users install software from the command line without visiting vendor sites or the Store — Microsoft is adding a built-in package manager to Windows 10. The company today announced Windows Package Manager at Build 2020 …
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CNET, Windows Command Line, ZDNet, The Verge, VentureBeat, Petri, Liliputing, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @tomwarren, @dotmorten, @rudyhuyn, @backlon, and @whatthebit
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV+ to build a back catalog; as of February it had ~10M subscribers but only half actively used it — - Company wants to create back catalog to complement originals — TV+, launched in November, had 10 million sign-ups by February
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Deadline, The Verge, CNBC, IndieWire, GameSpot, Gizmodo, Macworld, TechRadar.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, iMore, BGR, Input, Redmond Pie, Android Authority, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @kidscreen, @jessiwrites, @junkbondinvest, @nina_metz, @mgsiegler, @lucas_shaw, and @markgurman
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Azure Arc, Microsoft's multi-cloud management service, is now in public preview, allows users to bring services like Azure SQL Database to rival clouds like AWS — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Azure Arc, its service for managing cloud resources anywhere … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features — Google today launched Chrome 83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 83 includes redesigned safety and privacy settings …
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Tweets: @konklone, @sundarpichai, @epro, @justinschuh, @googleeurope, @justinschuh, @campuscodi, @justinschuh, @alexainslie, @googlechrome, @campuscodi, and @konklone
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Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of ~9M passengers were stolen; some payment info also leaked; it learned of the attack in January — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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Investis Digital, The Guardian, The Verge, TechCrunch, CyberScoop, Graham Cluley, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, The Register, Telegraph, Tom's Guide, SlashGear, and The Capital
Tweets: @weldpond, @petefirman, @dvatw, @ccleaner, @samnewman, @mikko, and @joetidy
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, TechCrunch, Laptop Mag, Thurrott, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, and PCWorld
Tweets: @hamburger, @anaisbetts, @haroonchoudery, @jeffteper, @tomwarren, @jorilallo, and @tomwarren
| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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NBC News, The Verge, CNBC, Android Authority, Droid Life, Android Central, and The Next Web
Tweets: @aprilaser, @jerrycap, @loudmouthjulia, @sundarpichai, @oliverdarcy, @davidclinchnews, @rdrv3, and @backlon
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
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MSPoweruser, Engadget, Thurrott, Neowin, and Windows Central
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate — Microsoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum.
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Microsoft Blog, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, Forrester, GeekWire, TechCrunch, ZDNet, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @gtzi and @patrickmoorhead
| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it will not “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry” — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out — After a year of weathering criticism …
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Greenpeace USA, Telegraph, Associated Press, Forbes, Microsoft on the Issues, Digital Trends, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @greenpeaceusa, @andrewwinston, @bcmerchant, @alexsteffen, @ketanj0, @tsimonite, @jimmylevendia, @alixtrot, @willoremus, @wokyleeks, @climatekeith, @ozm, and @mer__edith
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Bitfury: share of bitcoin sent to mixers by darknet entities rose to 20% in Q1 2020, up from 1% in Q1 2019 — The use of bitcoin mixing services by darknet entities is growing, according to a new report by Bitfury's crypto analytics unit Crystal Blockchain.
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Crystal Blockchain Analytics …, CoinSpice, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
| Scott Nover / Adweek: |
Google Preferred will be replaced by YouTube Select, a global offering for premium advertisers with a package specifically for YouTube content on connected TVs — Called YouTube Select, it includes connected TV usage for the first time — Key Insight: — The offering will help Google monetize … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identity of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.
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US-CERT, TechSpot, BIAS, 9to5Mac, forklog.media, Security Affairs, Input, AppleInsider, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, 9to5Google, Threatpost, and The Mac Observer. Tweets: @lukolejnik
| EJ Dickson / Rolling Stone: |
Some sex workers on OnlyFans say they are being pushed out in favor of mainstream celebrities and influencers, as the site is scrutinized amid SESTA/FOSTA laws — As the site's popularity booms during our current health crisis, some worry their NSFW content will be purged
Tweets: @cherubbrat, @racebaitr, and @lauraagustin
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Inside Amazon's biggest COVID-19 warehouse outbreak in northeastern Pennsylvania, where local lawmakers believe over 100 workers have contracted the disease — A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon's others after missing early opportunities to protect workers.
Tweets: @rweingarten, @kyweise, and @jstein_wapo
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Event software startup Bevy.com raises $15M Series B as it shifts gears to power virtual events, says Duolingo has hosted 1,000 events with it in past six weeks — This might seem like the worst time to be building an event software business, but it seems to be working for Bevy.com … Sponsor Posts
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