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May 6, 2020 • 4min
Microsoft’s Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 are official
The days of the big product event are on hold for the foreseeable future. Until then, a big blog post will have to do. A day after announcing that Microsoft would be shifting focus away from dual-screen devices, Chief Product Officer Panos Panay took to the company’s Devices blog to show off a slew of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 6, 2020 • 6min
Tumblr now removes reblogs in violation of its hate speech policy, not just the original posts
Tumblr is making a change to how it deals with hate speech on its blogging platform. The company announced today it will also remove the reblogs (repostings) from any blogs that were suspended for violating its policies around hate speech. Already, the company says it’s identified nearly 1,000 blogs that were banned for blatant violations […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2020 • 4min
“Here Kitty!” is an adorable way to pass the time while staying at home
If you’ve got kids with you through this stay-at-home stretch, there’s a good chance you’re running low on new ways to keep them entertained. All the coloring pages have been colored in; the freeze dances frozen; the stickers stuck. Good news! Your iPhone is now a cat (congratulations!) You need to help your new cat […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2020 • 6min
Let housing rise from the empty offices and malls
Jon Evans Contributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010. More posts by this contributor How to make sense of the coronavirus chaos What do we do with the positives? It’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2020 • 7min
Tech for good during COVID-19: Sky-high gifts, extra help, and chips
When Roger Lee, the co-founder of Human Interest, heard that San Francisco imposed shelter-in-place orders, he started blogging about layoff news and posting crowdsourced lists of employees who were laid off. His goal was to increase awareness about layoffs and give recruiters a place to search for candidates. However, one week and 40 startup layoffs […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 4, 2020 • 3min
Smart driving assistant Automatic is shutting down
Automatic, makers of a connected car dongle, emailed customers today to announce that the company will shut down all operations May 28. The company says it’s the casualty of the COVID-19 shutdown. “Like many other companies in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our business,” it writes, “and we have made the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 1, 2020 • 5min
COVID-19 quarantine boosts smart speaker usage among U.S. adults, particularly younger users
The coronavirus outbreak has driven more consumers to turn to their smart speakers for news, information, music and entertainment, according to new data released today by NPR and Edison Research. Around three-quarters of U.S. adults 18 and up said their routines have been impacted due to COVID-19 and their media habits have changed as a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 1, 2020 • 4min
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Online code editor is now Visual Studio Codespaces and gets a price drop
About a year ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online, its online code editor based on the popular Visual Studio Code project. It’s basically a full code editor and hosted environment that lives in your browser. Today, the company announced that it is changing the name of this service to Visual Studio Codespaces. It’s also dropping […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 30, 2020 • 5min
Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst launches a fellowship for laid-off workers
Sarah Kunst graduated from college in 2008 and went straight into the luxury marketing world with a job at Chanel. Then, the stock market collapsed and Kunst was laid off. It was that layoff, Kunst says, that brought her to the world of startups and eventually to founding her own firm, Cleo Capital, to invest […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 30, 2020 • 5min
Meet EventBot, a new Android malware that steals banking passwords and two-factor codes
Security researchers are sounding the alarm over a newly discovered Android malware that targets banking apps and cryptocurrency wallets. The malware, which researchers at security firm Cybereason recently discovered and called EventBot, masquerades as a legitimate Android app — like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Word for Android — which abuses Android’s in-built accessibility features to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
