Month: February 2020
To our fellow newsrooms: stop surrendering to online attacks on your reporters
In 2018, a reporter at The Verge was viciously mobbed by bad faith attacks in an attempt to discredit her as she moved to a prestigious job at The New York Times. While we did not say it directly at the time, we were dismayed that the Times partially yielded…
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Coronavirus corrections and the rise of remote work
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week. What an insane, heart-stopping, odd, and stuffed week. I’m utterly exhausted. But, in better news, all of that great fodder for podcast and chat, so today’s Equity is pretty ok…
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Facebook cancels F8 developer conference over coronavirus fears
Facebook has announced it is cancelling this year’s F8 Developers conference due to growing global concerns over COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. The annual conference was scheduled for May 5th and 6th in San Jose, California, and last year was attended by over 5,000 developers, creators and entrepreneurs from all over the…
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Outdoor Research MicroGravity Jacket Review: A Soft Hard-Shell
This versatile jacket from Outdoor Research uses a special material that makes it great for a variety of conditions and activities. Source
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Apple glasses could solve one of VR’s biggest issues, patent suggests
We’re still not sure what the Apple Glasses will look like (although if they’re not called iGlasses, someone needs sacking) but it sounds like they’ll automatically adjust to the shape of your head. A new patent submitted by Apple has emerged, which describes how a ‘head-mounted device’ would include the…
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Windows 10 is about to get its biggest change yet
Microsoft is giving Windows 10’s File Explorer a much-needed overhaul, transforming one of the operating system’s key features. It’s always been a struggle to find documents and folders using File Explorer due to its relatively poor search tool. That’s all set to change with the release of Windows 10 20H1…
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