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What The Heck Is Going On With The Houseparty Bounty?
Late Tuesday night, the group video chatting app Houseparty tweeted out a bizarre statement: Houseparty has seen a surge of popularity in the last few weeks as people are staying inside and want a way to hang out with their friends. But in the last few days, there have been…
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Some Amazon Employees With Fevers Are Being Sent Home Without Pay
Jeenah Moon / Reuters Protesters are seen at Amazon building during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S., March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon The journalists at BuzzFeed News are proud to bring you trustworthy and relevant reporting about the coronavirus.…
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Peloton launches an Android TV app
With gyms across the country closed for business, at-home exercise companies like Peloton have found an unexpected opportunity. As the connected fitness company looks to onboard new customers, they’re also expanding platform support, announcing today that they would be bringing their app to Android TV, the OS used by millions…
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Disney Plus says its aspect-ratio fix for The Simpsons is coming soon
Following the launch of Disney Plus late last year, many fans of the classic animated sitcom The Simpsons voiced their displeasure upon discovering that the show’s first 19 and a half seasons had been cropped or stretched to fit into the 16:9 format, effectively ruining a number of quality visual…
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CDC is expected to tell Americans to wear cloth masks, save medical masks for health workers
On Thursday, the White House said that it will likely soon adjust previous guidelines that discouraged non-health workers from wearing face masks. The change would be issued as “guidance” from the CDC, but according to the president—who continues to hesitate at exerting federal power during the COVID-19 crisis—it will not…
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Amazon Detective makes it easier to spot cloud security issues
AWS has announced that its new security service Amazon Detective is now available at no additional cost to customers. Amazon Detective makes it much easier for customers to conduct faster and more efficient investigations into security issues across their AWS workloads. The service automatically collects log data from a customer’s…
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