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The Swedish furniture giant Ikea has purchased Geomagical Labs, an AI imaging startup, for an undisclosed amount to bring an innovative room visualization technique to its customers. Using Geomagical Labs' imaging technology, users will be able to take a picture of any room with any smartphone, remove the furniture present and be able to decorate the room virtually from scratch using Ikea furniture.

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Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of video conferencing app Zoom, which has shot to 200 million daily active users amid the coronavirus pandemic, has announced that the company will be putting roll-out of new features on hold after Zoom received widespread criticism over its treatment of user privacy and security. Yuan says the company will instead focus on fixing the issues users are facing with the software.

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SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, has banned its employees from using Zoom, the video conferencing app. The company sent out an internal memo warning employees about the security risks associated with the app. SpaceX is currently working on numerous projects that are vital to national security. NASA has also prohibited its employees from using Zoom.

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Detroit is going to become the first city to use the new Abbot Labs 5 minute coronavirus test. The mayor has said that first responders will have access to the test and they will be available within the next 24 hours. The test requires very little equipment and can produce results faster than any other available method.

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Designer Yuri Suzuki has created a small cheap machine that will allow users to create their own vinyl records at home. 'The Easy Record Maker' will be able to create 5-inch records that unfortunately will not be able to match the impeccable sound of standard vinyl records. He hopes to introduce a younger generation to the joys of vinyl.

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Lingumi, a London and Cardiff-based ed-tech startup focused on teaching pre-school children critical skills, has successfully raised 4 million GBP of funding, with China-based technology fund North Summit Capital leading the round. Lingumi started offering their first course on spoken English in China last year, and also plan on offering daily free content packs and videos to support users during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Uber Eats, the food delivery division of the ride-hailing giant Uber, has revealed that it is expanding its grocery delivery capabilities amid the worsening coronavirus crisis, which is seeing lockdowns continue in most countries. Eats is collaborating with supermarket giant Carrefour in France and the Galp service station chain in Spain to offer customers 30-minute delivery of essential food items, medical supplies and cleaning products.

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Vericool, a California based startup, has managed to raise a whopping $19.1 million in funding for its new coolers that are made entirely of plant-based materials. The company hopes to replace plastic coolers with a much greener alternative and has a great track record when it comes to innovation and social justice.

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Apple has updated iMovie for iPadOS with new features including mouse and trackpad support, new keyboard shortcuts, more image format, and more. The new version also prepares Apple’s video editing app for the upcoming Magic Keyboard accessory for iPad Pro. Starting with iOS 13.4 released in March 2020, all iPads now support mouse and trackpad cursors throughout the system by default.

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Facebook has locked up an exclusive supply of smart glasses displays, inking a deal with a microLED specialist that could one day put digital lenses in wearable computers. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has previously said that smart glasses are a focus for the company and predicted that they’ll arrive sometime this decade, but so far the limitations around power, connectivity, and display technology have meant it’s not quite practical yet.

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Apple bought the Dark Sky app and has shut donw its Android verison, Along with the death of the Android app, Dark Sky’s API (application programming interface) will no longer be available for others to use, meaning that other popular apps like Carrot Weather that rely on the API will have to find an alternative solution, although they’ll be given until the end of 2021 to do so.

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Spotify announced that it's bringing back the kid's app in the US, Canada, and France. The ad-free iOS / Android app is only available to Spotify Premium Family subscribers and features content appropriate for kids ages three and older. In the five months since launching, Spotify says the app now has more than 8,000 songs in its catalog, an increase of 30%, and 50% of that content is localized.

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As we all know that we are in the state of Quarantine and everything is closed, but thanks to the technology that it has provided us different platforms to interact, to communicate and to run our businesses to some extent. "I have recently worked on an online conference app which provided my whole team to come on one platform and discuss new strategies" Moshin Ali, Digital Marketer

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The Canadian quantum computing startup D-Wave has announced that they will provide free cloud access to their quantum processors for any researchers that are working to develop solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. This includes not just pharmaceutical research but also research that seeks to solve logistical problems, diagnostics or contagion modeling.

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The video-conferencing and group video-gaming app Houseparty, which was bought by Fortnite developer Epic Games in 2019, has announced a 1 million USD reward for anyone who can provide evidence for recent social media allegations that downloading the Houseparty app led to users' Snapchat and Netflix accounts being hacked. Houseparty has denied these allegations and asked anyone with proof to contact bounty@houseparty.com to claim their reward.

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Due to the lockdown that has taken place in numerous countries across the planet, more and more people are working via video conference apps and software. Since people are unable to leave their homes, video conference apps have gotten 62 million new downloads this week, a new world record.

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Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has partnered up with the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to fun $1 billion's worth of coronavirus vaccine and treatment research. The company intends to provide 1 billion doses of the vaccine worldwide and will likely start clinical trials by September. They intend to have it ready by 2021.

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Ford and General Electric have partnered up to create 50,000 ventilators in the next 100 days and will then build 30,000 a month if demand continues to rise. They are going to use a new FDA approved design that will not require electricity to run. The companies have said they will keep their factory workers safe during production.

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According to a new report Saudi spies have been exploiting security flaws within the world's cell networks to spy on US citizens through their own phones. US carriers have long since been aware of these flaws but have not made any efforts to patch them. Saudi Arabia has also planted spies at Twitter to surveil critics of the regime.

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CDC changed its recommendations to allow anyone with COVID-19-like symptoms to be tested as long as a doctor approves the request. Most health officials believe it is important to prioritize the testing of people who need it the most: those at high risk such as health care workers who have been in contact with COVID-19 patients; people 65 years of age and older with chronic health issues like lung disease

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has teamed up with representatives from the gaming industry to launch the #PlayApartTogether campaign to encourage people to follow social distancing to avoid spreading the coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, and by staying at home and playing video games online. Riot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent encouraged people to stay sociable while being physically distant by playing together online.

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According to a post on the official Microsoft Azure blog, there's a surge in Microsoft's cloud services "In response to health authorities emphasizing the importance of social distancing, we’ve seen usage increases in services that support these scenarios - including Microsoft Teams, Windows Virtual Desktop, and Power BI" "We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing."

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Effect of being homebound during the coronavirus shutdown has had folks looking for novel ways to stay in touch with other people, and word has spread fast about Marco Polo. "Chat apps are great if you have lots of free time," says Vlada Bortnik, who co-founded Marco Polo with husband Michal and serves as the CEO. The walkie-talkie video app saw a surge in downloads in recent weeks

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An app called Spaces now allows Zoom users to attend online meetings in virtual reality on their PCs, and is also compatible with other video conferencing software. Spaces users can join a video conferencing call through their VR headset and use a virtual camera and whiteboard in their meetings. Currently, Spaces supports Zoom, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger and Skype.

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Zoom is an American video conferencing app and gained massive popularity in recent days, but there is an issue. The default settings of Zoom are configured in such a way that allows trolls to invade meetings, in what is now known as “zoombombing.” Some “zoombombers” have taken advantage of the app’s screen-sharing feature to join online meetings uninvited, and at times showing inappropriate content such as violent images and pornography.

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