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You Used to Call Me on the Cellphone, Maybe You Should Again
Lifewire - Lance Ulanoff
I’ve texted long conversations, quick check-ins, and far too many birthday and holiday greetings. I’m not necessarily proud of this. Texting your …
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Coronavirus: Can the Internet Survive? Streaming Entertainment Is Key, Social Apps FTW - Tech Briefs
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Abby Kearns
Protocol - Kevin McAllister
Experts in Protocol's Braintrust highlight scalability and circuit breakers as key focus points for organizations making a cloud push.
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Apple
“Just a Touch MacBook”
500ish.com - M.G. Siegler
The iPad vs. MacBook debate boils down to iOS vs. macOS We’re now ten years removed from the unveiling of the iPad. You remember, “just a big iPhone”. …
March 19
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ProBeat: How coronavirus will change tech events forever
VentureBeat - Emil Protalinski
I could have written this column a month ago, on February 27, when Facebook canceled its F8 developers conference scheduled for May. While I was writing, O’Reilly got out of the event business permanently.
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OneWeb to file for bankruptcy as effort to securing funding, including from investor Softbank, falls through – TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Darrell Etherington
Broadband constellation satellite operator OneWeb has officially filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S., after attempts to secure new funding, including from existing investor SoftBank, fell through,
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Reviews for the Macbook Air and iPad Pro (2020) and how the coronavirus is affecting tech companies and culture by The Vergecast
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Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss how the coronavirus is affecting tech companies of all sizes, the reviews Macbook Air and iPad Pro, the Huawei P40 …
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Mobile Technology
Huawei CEO: Google Play Store alternative ‘not so perfect' but will 'quickly improve'
pocket-lint.com - Mike Lowe
It's a big day for Huawei: it announced its P series flagship phones, comprising the P40, P40 Pro and P40 Pro+ for its 2020 line-up. However, while …
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Android Phones
Huawei unveil a new sporty smartwatch and its first wireless speaker
Android Authority - Phillip Prado
Huawei announced the new P40 series today, but these new Android devices weren’t the only products the company revealed. Huawei also released the brand new Huawei Watch GT 2e and the Sound X wireless We
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Huawei
Richard Yu Press Interview: Huawei's CEO on COVID-19 and Huawei Apps
anandtech.com - Dr. Ian Cutress
Today Huawei launched its latest generation of photography focused smartphone: the P40 series. This series consists of the P40, the P40 Pro, and the …
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Mobile Photography
Huawei P40 Pro Hands-on Review: Silky Design, Sharp Camera | Digital Trends
Digital Trends - Andy Boxall
The Huawei P30 Pro is a hard act to follow. It had everything we wanted from a phone, from slick design and beautiful colors, to a trendsetting …
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Living a Google-free life with a Huawei phone
The Verge - Sam Byford
Tomorrow Huawei will launch its latest flagship phones, the P40 series, at an event to be streamed online. There won’t be any people in the audience, of course, but even if there were, the atmosphere be
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Android News
Huawei to launch multilingual voice assistant Celia, starting on the P40 flagship in 6 countries
VentureBeat - Paul Sawers
Huawei has officially announced a new voice-activated virtual assistant that will be made available outside of China as the tech titan continues to build out its own versions of Google’s services. Huawei
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Gear & Gadgets
LG V60 ThinQ Dual Screen Review: Flagship Spec, Meh Features | Digital Trends
Digital Trends - Christian de Looper
LG V60 ThinQ 5G Dual Screen review: Not quite a flagship “The LG ThinQ V60 5G has a massive battery and unique dual screen case, but poor software and …
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Explainers
Why the internet (probably) won’t break during the coronavirus pandemic
Recode - Adam Clark Estes
If you’ve been working from home during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, you’ve probably noticed a tech glitch or two. Maybe your coworker’s face froze in a Zoom meeting, or you watched a YouTube video
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Disney+
Disney Plus and Facebook are also reducing streaming quality in Europe
The Verge - Julia Alexander
Facebook and Disney are joining Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and YouTube in reducing streaming video quality in order to lighten the load on the internet in Europe, as more people start working and learning
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Amazon, YouTube Throttle Streaming Quality in Europe | Digital Trends
Digital Trends - Shubham Agarwal
Amazon and YouTube have agreed to comply with The European Commission’s request to switch to standard quality streams in an effort to avoid bandwidth …
March 20
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Tech Industry
Facebook joins YouTube and Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe amid virus pandemic
CNBC - Ryan Browne
Facebook is reducing video streaming quality in Europe to avoid straining the internet, as more people are forced to stay at home due to the …
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Europe
Facebook lowers video quality in Latin America, following Europe
Reuters - Gabriela Mello
FILE PHOTO: A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will lower video streaming quality
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video Offers Streaming of Theatrical Releases | Digital Trends
Digital Trends - Georgina Torbet
With cinemas around the world closed indefinitely due to the global outbreak of coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, some movies are being …
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Amazon Prime Video is streaming kids movies and TV for free, no Prime membership required – TechCrunch
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
Amazon is making a selection of family-friendly and kids programming available for free streaming on Prime Video, as a result of the COVID-19 health crisis which has people trapped at home. The content
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Verizon
Comcast, Verizon make some on-demand viewing free
Engadget - Jon Fingas
Comcast and Verizon (Engadget's parent company) have been scrambling to help people stay online during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now they're giving customer more to do with that access. On Comcast, subscribers
3 days ago
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Exclusive: Disney+ Sees Huge Subscription Spike As Homebound Audiences Clamor For Content
Forbes - Ariel Shapiro
Topline: As Americans brace for spending weeks (or months) inside as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, they are subscribing to additional streaming services, with Disney+ proving to be far and away the
6 days ago
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Wellness
Instagram's new Co-Watching feature is built for social distancing
CNET - Oscar Gonzalez
Keep in touch with friends at a distance.
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Social Distancing
Can the Houseparty app help us stay sane in quarantine? I downloaded it to find out
The Guardian - Sanjna N Singh
What we are really finding out from this coronavirus is what everyone’s news source is Last week, my friends and I were squeezed into a booth at Heyn’s, an ice cream shop in Iowa City. While the coronavirus
3 days ago
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Entertainment
Ep. 33 - Fighting Misinformation, Amazon Warehouse, Entertainment Changes
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March 20
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Facebook and Twitter vs COVID-19 Armchair Doctors, Films Bypass Theaters for Streaming - Tech Briefs
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Movies
Pixar's Onward Is Available On Digital Early, Disney Plus Soon
GameSpot - Steven Petite
Pixar's Onward joined the growing list of movies to get early digital releases. Just two weeks after its theatrical debut, Onward released digitally last Friday for $20. The wonderful adventure film will
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Animation
Universal Moves To Release Current Movies To On Demand | Digital Trends
Digital Trends - Allison Matyus
The COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak is prompting much of America to stay home, and in response to that, one studio is releasing films currently in …
March 16
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AMazon increases worker pay, ramps up hiring due to COVID-19 | Digital Trends
Digital Trends - Maya Shwayder
Amazon is upping its pay rates by $2 an hour in the U.S and hiring for 100,000 new full- and part-time positions across the country in response to …
March 16

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