Microsoft details Xbox Series X specs: custom 8-core 3.8GHz AMD Zen 2 CPU, custom 1.825GHz AMD RNDA 2 GPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD with expansion card support
This is it. After months of teaser trailers, blog posts and even the occasional leak, we can finally reveal firm …
Alphabet's Verily launches a coronavirus screening website limited to the San Francisco Bay area, requires users to log in with their Google account
- Alphabet's Verily on Sunday night launched a pilot of a COVID-19 screening and testing website in the San Francisco Bay Area, a day earlier than it said it would.
Google says it is working with the US government to develop a nationwide COVID-19 website on symptoms, risks, and testing info, in addition to other measures
but Not Like Trump Said New York Times : Trump Oversold a Google Site to Fight Coronavirus Sean Collins / Vox : Despite his experts' grave warnings, Trump wants everyone to just “relax” Jon Fingas / E...
An overview of the COVID-19-related work Google is doing, and how it falls far short of the comprehensive testing system implied by President Trump on Friday
Did we call? If you're interested in fighting misinformation, this would be a good place to start. https://twitter.com/... Daniel Dale / @ddale8 : False. Media outlets contacted Google. Google said si...
Apple fined €1.1B by French antitrust authorities for anticompetitive behavior within its distribution networks; Apple says it will appeal
Apple was fined 1.1 billion euros ($1.23 billion) for anti-competitive behavior Monday by the French antitrust authorities.
WSJ: some Apple employees still work from HQ due to restrictions on external access to some systems and prohibitions on unreleased products from leaving campus
The process of tech companies sending thousands of employees home amid the coronavirus crisis has been messy, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Source: Wall Street Journal .
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 … Tweets: @theintercept , @intothecrevasse , @cindygallop , @sarahemclaugh , @rose_catb , and @s...
Sources: US Department of Health and Human Services suffered a cyberattack on its computer system Sunday night, apparently aimed at slowing coronavirus response
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation's response …
Beats announces $149 Powerbeats with 15 hours of battery life, Apple's H1 chip for quick pairing, and IPX4 rating for water resistance, available March 18
They've already leaked plenty and Walmart even put them on shelves before an official announcement, but now Apple's Beats brand is launching the new Powerbeats 4 earbuds.
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.
TikTok says it will stop using ~100 moderators it had in China to monitor overseas content and shift that work to those outside China
the latest effort by owner Bytedance to distance itself from U.S. concerns about Beijing's influence. Scoop by @Kubota_Yoko @raffaelehuang @ByShanLi https://www.wsj.com/... Elliott Zaagman / @elliottz...
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.
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. Tweets: @howelloneill , @haaretzcom , @moorehn , @ronenbergman , and @ymur...
After China and South Korea used smartphones to track people with COVID-19, researchers are testing apps to monitor contact among people, amid privacy concerns
China and South Korea used smartphone apps to monitor people with the disease. But Americans have different views of privacy and data collection. Tweets: @berci and @willknight Tweets: @berci : Despi...
How the University of Southern California sees social media content creation and influencing as viable career paths, offering classes like Influencer Relations
it is seen as a viable career path. https://www.nbcnews.com/... - @KalhanR Margot Susca, Ph.D. / @margotsusca : As if you needed another sign of the pending apocalypse. https://twitter.com/... Kat Ten...
Rancher Labs, which develops an open source Kubernetes management service, raises $40M Series D led by Telstra Ventures, bringing its total raised to $95M
The six year-old startup is going after new markets that want to run Kubernetes clusters at the edge.
Profile of Zoom, which has conquered video chat with a simple service that keeps latency under 150 milliseconds, as COVID-19 forces employees to work remotely
Before coronavrius locked workers at home, Zoom was a leading videoconferencing tool. But it wants to be more. It wants to be your whole office.
A look at WikiProject Medicine, a collection of ~35,000 English Wikipedia articles checked rigorously by ~150 editors with public health and medical expertise
many with medical degrees and expertise — are closely monitoring and scrutinizing edits to articles about COVID-19. Here's how @WikiProjectMed operates to protect the facts and keep misinformation off...
Amazon warns it is experiencing Prime delivery delays and running out of stock of popular household items amid the coronavirus outbreak
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Airbnb is broadening its cancellation policy to offer refunds to worldwide travelers with stays and experiences booked between March 14 and April 14
Grant Martin / Forbes :
China's “internet police” force, which had 1,200 officers in 2016, has ramped up questioning of those who criticize the government's coronavirus response
Paul Mozur / New York Times : Tweets: @newportwonk and @telltaleatheist Tweets: @newportwonk : “Officers arrive with an unexpected rap at the door of online critics. They drag off offenders for hours...
Many Facebook groups have sprung up in response to coronavirus fears, offering information on emergency preparedness, blood banks, and coordinating local help
and look for ways to help each other. By @pardesoteric https://www.wired.com/...
Netflix shuts down physical production and prep of scripted TV and film for two weeks in US and Canada amid a broader production pause across the film industry
Lesley Goldberg / Hollywood Reporter :
Sources: Amazon wants to open source its cashier-less store software via an organization called Dent, which held unsuccessful talks with Walmart and Target
Wall Street Journal :
FCC says it netted $4.47B for 5G mmWave bands in its spectrum auction and $2.7B for 24GHz and 28GHz bands with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon as top bidders
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
CB Insights: AI startup acquisitions reached 231 in 2019, up from 42 in 2014; Apple acquired the most since 2010, followed by Google, Microsoft, and Facebook
Bloomberg :
Validere, an informatics platform for oil and gas companies, raises $15M Series A led by Wing VC, says it's now monitoring and optimizing 3M+ barrels per day
b.well Connected Health, a consumer-facing healthcare management platform, raises $16M Series A led by UnityPoint Health Ventures
Arctic Wolf, which provides security experts to act as an extension of a company's internal cybersecurity team, raises $60M Series D
Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News :
Digi-Capital: over $4.1B was invested in AR and VR startups in 2019, but Q4 lagged; 2019 was the third-highest year for AR and VR investment after 2017 and 2018
Tim Merel / VentureBeat :
UK-based INSTANDA, which claims to be the insurance industry's “first no-code business platform”, raises $19.5M Series A led by Assembly Capital Partners
Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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