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Daily Crunch: Zoom faces security scrutiny
Researchers reveal a number of security issues with videoconferencing app Zoom, investors warn Indian startups of tough times ahead and Uber Eats expands its grocery options internationally. Here’s your Daily Crunch for April 1, 2020. 1. Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all Zoom’s recent popularity has shone a spotlight…
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WarnerMedia’s new boss is former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar
Hulu co-founder and former chief executive Jason Kilar has been named the new chief executive of WarnerMedia . It’s the latest executive reshuffling at the AT&T-owned media giant, which saw its previous CEO, John Stankey, promoted to president and chief operating officer while still holding the media subsidiary’s reins. Stankey…
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Tiger King is a show about how the internet eats us all
Tiger King is one of the strongest contenders for most watchable TV show of the year, and it’s a problem. A documentary miniseries comprising seven quick episodes, each under an hour, you could watch the whole thing in a weekend; given the subject, you’ll probably finish even faster. The Netflix…
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Jack Black, one of the best celebrity YouTubers, is headed to TikTok
Jack Black has joined TikTok, and his first video shows him doing a goofy dance he calls the “Quarantine Dance.” The 50-year-old celebrity debuted on the popular video-sharing app on Monday. Throughout the clip, Black is shirtless and sporting a pair of cowboy boots plus a cowboy hat while dancing,…
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Cloudflare’s WARP VPN is launching in beta for macOS and Windows
Cloudflare’s WARP VPN service began its life last year as a free add-on to the company’s 1.1.1.1 app — which itself is a DNS resolver application that promises faster internet — and was immediately popular. (There were, at one point in time, approximately 2 million people on its waiting list.)…
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United Nations will host global meetings online through a partnership with Tencent
The United Nations (UN) has announced that it will use software from China’s Tencent to host online conversations ahead of its 75th anniversary. The intergovernmental organization will use the international version of Tencent Meeting, VooV Meeting along with WeChat Work and Tencent Artificial Intelligence Simultaneous Interpretation to host “thousands of…
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