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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been in the news recently due to his “Interesting tweets” and views about coronavirus lockdown, now, Tesla has been ordered to keep its biggest plant in the US closed adding worries for Tech Entrepreneur. "Tesla has been informed that they do not meet reopen criteria and must not reopen," Alameda County authorities said in a statement

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Work and personal video calling are surging in light of COVID-19, with Google announcing a handful of new Duo features last month to support that demand. Google Duo is soon adding group calling on the web and link sharing, as well as a family mode. This new feature requires that you’re signed into Duo with your Google Account.

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TikTok, the world's most popular social media app has quietly made London its new hub in Europe. TikTok has been downloaded over 2 billion times globally and has the largest office in Los Angeles but now London is inching closer to the top spot. Company is looking for a lead machine-learning engineer in London and is willing to pay an annual basic salary of £200,000

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According to the research center Citizen Lab, Chinese Tech giant Tencent has been surveilling content posted by non-Chinese users to refine censorship on its platform. The company declined to comment on the matter. The US already raised concerns about the flow of data from apps and services owned by Chinese companies. WeChat has more than 1 billion users around the world

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Tech giant Google has been working on a 4K Android TV dongle for quite some time and even announced a new streaming device called ADT-3 for developers along with Android TV 10 in late 2019. Now, a recent report suggests that Google is working on a new streaming device actually available for consumers and running on the Android TV platform.

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According to a memo from BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, the company plans to furlough 68 employees in an effort to cut the costs. The CEO himself is foregoing pay in these difficult times. Jonah said that the efforts to minimize losses “will no longer be possible without further cuts similar to what we’re doing across other parts of the company.” The layoffs will begin from May 15

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Social networking platform Twitter is showing some iOS and web users a new interface to make it easier to follow threaded conversations, the company has announced. A gif published by Twitter’s Support account shows the new test interface in action, with lines and indents making it much easier to see who’s responding to who in a Twitter thread.

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A new "premium" Call of Duty game is coming this year, and so are two new games based on Activision IPs. According to the expectations, the next premium release for Call of Duty and two titles based on library IP from Activision later this year. A new mainline Call of Duty game is exciting, if not entirely unexpected, but we still don't have anything official

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Crypto investors shift focus to the Bitcoin halving event coming in just a few days as volatility returns to the market. Bitcoin halving will reduce the mining reward per block (from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC) to maintain the supply. Bitcoin crashed almost 50% in March, but the price rebounded to reach the $9,000 mark. Bitcoin’s hash rate also recovered to reach close to an all-time high

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American multinational corporation and technology company Intel confirmed today that the company is acquiring an Israeli transportation and mobility startup Moovit in order to grow its automotive division. Moovit analyses urban traffic patterns and provides transportation recommendations with a specific focus on public transit. Intel is paying around $840 million for the startup

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Sony has confirmed the PlayStation 5 is coming this year. Release Date– Sony is firm that the console will launch this year, despite the rumor mill suggesting some issues in their production and launch plans. Apparently, Sony is struggling to keep the production cost of the console down since some hardware components are proving costly to acquire.

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The Ultimate Edition will include the base game, the Season Pass and the Ultimate Pack, giving players access to exclusive customization content: the Berserker Gear Pack, the Berserker Settlement Pack, and the Berserker Longship Pack, along with a Set of Runes to improve weapons or gear.

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In a recent 10-Q filing, Slack lists Microsoft Corporation as its "primary competitor." The company also took out a full-page "open-letter" ad in the New York Times three years ago pointed directly at the Redmond-based tech powerhouse.
Teams saw a surge of growth late last year as Microsoft pushed it on its customers, eventually surpassing Slack's count by 8 million with over 20 million active users.

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A high-profile failure to gain the trust of users, public health agencies and industry partners could "come back to haunt Apple and Google" in future health initiatives, said Joy Pritts, a health privacy expert and a former top adviser for privacy and security at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Last month we analyzed how the coronavirus pandemic changed the way we work, study, and communicate and the impact it had on apps people download. Zoom has been the most downloaded free app since March and naturally remains as popular in the charts, given it's widely used by organizations to run meetings, webinars, and classes.

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The Michigan health department said its contact tracing plan, for now, will rely mostly on dogged investigations and phone calls to alert people that may have been infected by the coronavirus, not high-tech apps that are being developed.

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In the latest beta release of iOS 13.5 , multiple developers said a new Face ID feature makes it easier to unlock the iPhone without having to take off a mask. The upcoming iOS update is also loaded with new software that app developers can use to help iPhone users be notified if they've come in contact with a person having Covid-19.

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Microsoft’s Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, says the company’s next-gen Xbox Series X console is still on schedule for later this year, but game production is a little more of an unknown. Microsoft has only officially committed to launching Halo Infinite alongside the Xbox Series X, but even this title and other first-party games won’t be exclusive to the new Xbox.

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2018's Assassin's Creed Odyssey allowed players to choose their gender, picking between a man or a woman, and 2020's game Assassin's Creed Valhalla will carry this feature forward. In Valhalla, you play as Eivor, who is described as a "fierce Viking raider raised on tales of battle and glory." Eivor leads a group of Norsemen that have been driven from Norway by "endless wars and dwindling resources

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As previously revealed in an app teardown, the Play Store has been preparing a feature that allows it to automatically install apps and games you pre-registered for. Some see a new option when they pre-register for titles that allows them to take advantage of the auto-install upon release feature.

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Users are reporting a subtle new feature in the latest developer version of iOS 13.5 that will make it easier to unlock your iPhone without having to take off your protective face mask. Videos shared on Twitter by some users show that Apple devices with Face ID will jump to the backup passcode-entry screen if it detects a mask. iOS 13.5 is expected to land in the coming weeks

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From April 29- May 6, players can watch various Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Twitch streams to earn exclusive in-game loot. On Twitch, there are certain streamers who are “drop eligible.” By linking your Call of Duty and Twitch accounts, you can watch these streams and tally up your watch time — it doesn’t matter if the eligible streamer is playing Warzone or Modern Warfare.

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If all the violence and strife on Fortnite's battle royale island has got you feeling anxious, the game has a new mode to soothe your woes. First discovered prolific Fortnite dataminer Lucas7yoshi, Epic Games later officially launched Party Royale, where players will be free to explore the island and engage in non-combat activities, such as skydiving.

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The feature, called “Start Chatting,” will randomly sort users of popular subreddits into small, private group chats. Facebook revealed earlier this year that its vision has shifted to prioritize its messaging services, including WhatsApp and Messenger, as the majority of new users show low interest in Facebook’s traditional website and mobile app. Last week, the company released Messenger Rooms, a video-chat service for groups of up to 50 people.

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In Apple's case, the iPhone maker earlier expected to tally sales between $63 billion and $67 billion, even with early warning signs of the coronavirus showing disruption to manufacturing and supplies throughout China in December and January. Yahoo says analysts on average expect Apple to report profits of $2.28 per share from $54.7 billion in sales, a drop of more than 5% from the same time a year ago.

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