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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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Twitter will remove misleading COVID-19-related tweets that could incite people to engage in ‘harmful activity’
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Twitter has updated its COVID-19 policies to require users remove tweets making unverified claims that “incite people to action and cause widespread panic, social unrest or large-scale disorder.”
The changes come as COVID-19 misinformation...
Google Duo video calls are about to look a whole lot better
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Google’s Duo video chatting app is about to get a big bump in call quality, thanks to a new video codec technology the company plans to roll out in the next week. The codec, called AV1, is the product of an industry-wide consortium called the Alliance for Open...
Verizon extends 15GB of extra data deal to customers through May
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Verizon announced today that it’s extending its pledge to provide an additional 15GB of high-speed data to customers with a wireless plan through May 31st due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Verizon notes that customers will not have to...
Nikola gets $4 million pandemic loan, as patent lawsuit against Tesla continues
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Electric big rig startup Nikola received a $4.1 million loan from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) meant to help small businesses keep people employed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an April 15th filing with the...
Samsung’s blood pressure measurement on smartwatches still a have long way to go
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Active 2 has taken another big step toward offering blood pressure monitoring, a feature Samsung has been promising since the original Galaxy Watch Active was released in 2019. This week saw Samsung’s Health Monitor app get regulatory approval from South...
US vaccine expert says he was forced out of position for resisting hydroxychloroquine hype
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Federal researcher and vaccine development expert Rick Bright says he was removed from his position in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after objecting to the agency’s efforts to push the use of hydroxychloroquine as...
Joe Biden looks to shore up climate credentials for Earth Day
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Joe Biden won key environmental endorsements this week as the 50th anniversary of Earth Day focuses attention on climate change. Longtime proponents of climate action Al Gore and Jay Inslee announced today that...
Viral texts about coronavirus lockdown were amplified by Chinese operatives, US officials say
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Chinese operatives helped amplify a viral text message that falsely claimed President Trump was going to instate a nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19, reports The New York Times. US officials said the operatives were engaging in disinformation...
Russian Doll’s Leslye Headland is working on a new Star Wars show for Disney Plus
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Russian Doll co-creator and showrunner Leslye Headland is reportedly working on a new Star Wars TV series for Disney Plus, according to a new report from Variety. The series is said to be a “female-centric” show set in a different part of the...
Netflix promises subscribers it won’t run out of new content while people are stuck at home
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The most pressing issue entertainment companies around the world are facing is what the rest of their year looks like. Production on sets around the world has completely stopped, movies are being delayed on a weekly basis as theaters remain closed and shelter-in-place...
Facebook will start telling you where page posts are coming from
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Facebook says today, it’s going to display the location of “high-reach” Facebook pages and Instagram accounts on every post the owners share in order to give people “more information to help them gauge the reliability and authenticity of the content they see in their...
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip gets a new split-screen YouTube experience
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YouTube has released a new update to take advantage of the Galaxy Z Flip’s “Flex Mode,” allowing the app to split the screen in two.
While watching a YouTube video on Samsung’s new flip phone while...
AT&T adds 5G to 90 new markets, nearly doubling its coverage
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AT&T is nearly doubling the number of markets in which it offers its 5G network, with coverage in 90 new areas starting today. The new additions bring AT&T’s total number up to over 190 markets covering more than 120 million people.
New...
Apple’s default Mail app for the iPhone has a severe security flaw, researchers claim
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Security researchers say the iPhone has a severe flaw in the native iOS Mail app that makes it vulnerable to hackers, according to a report published on Wednesday by San Francisco-based firm ZecOps.
The flaw had not previously been...
Nuro is using delivery robots to help health care workers fighting COVID-19
Nuro, the autonomous vehicle startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, is using its small fleet of road-legal delivery robots to transport medical supplies around two California stadiums that have been converted into treatment facilities for people stricken with COVID-19.
The...
Who should you be while you’re streaming?
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
If there’s anything I’ve learned from working on the internet, peddling writing for a number of years, it’s that the content must flow. Or maybe it’s better to say that content will flow because its creation is a foregone conclusion....
The jury is still out on Zoom trials
Courts are moving online due to COVID-19. No one is sure if that’s a good thing.
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Deck out your Switch with (not) an Animal Crossing skin that is (not) copyright infringement
A Nintendo Switch is hard to come by these days; the limited Animal Crossing edition, even harder. Players who failed to snag the island-themed console can either fight over marked-up consoles from resellers or turn to customization options — like Dbrand’s (not) Animal Crossing...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Call of Duty: Mobile is getting an esports tournament with $1 million in prizes
Call of Duty: Mobile has quickly grown to become one of the biggest games in the world, and soon it will have a competitive tournament to match. Today, Activision revealed the Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship 2020 Tournament, a lengthy esports tournament that features...
Chinese EV startup Byton furloughs hundreds in the US
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Chinese EV startup Byton is furloughing more than 200 workers at its North American headquarters in Santa Clara, California due to the coronavirus pandemic, and is reevaluating its plans to launch its first vehicle later this year.
“Given the...
Westworld gets renewed for a fourth season on HBO
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Westworld has been renewed for a fourth season, HBO announced today, meaning that the sometimes infuriatingly complicated science-fiction / Western series will continue to enthrall viewers with its violent delights for another season, via Variety.
The third season...
Google Meet’s Zoom-like gallery view is rolling out now globally
Google Meet’s new Zoom-like gallery view is rolling out across the globe “gradually” starting today, the company said in a blog post. Previously, you were only able to see four people on-screen at a time, but with Meet’s new tiled layout, you’ll be able to see 16 call participants...
Pussy Riot, Idles to play Minecraft virtual festival ‘Block by Blockwest’
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Punk acts like Pussy Riot and Idles will be logging into Minecraft on Saturday to play sets for the Block by Blockwest online music festival to raise money for novel coronavirus relief efforts.
The event is being organized by a group called...
