Masks, wipes and air filters: Flying in the age of coronavirus

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WhatsApp digital payments are suspended in Brazil

WhatsApp digital payments have been suspended by Brazil’s Central Bank a week after the feature launched in the country. The bank ordered Visa and Mastercard to stop payments and money transfers through the app or risk facing fines.  With this decision, the Central Bank aims “to preserve an adequate competitive environment, which ensures the functioning of an interoperable, fast, secure, …

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Rep. Devin Nunes can’t sue Twitter over satirical cow account, judge rules

Rep. Devin Nunes can’t sue Twitter over tweets made by two parody accounts and a Republican strategist he accuses of defaming him, a Virginia judge has ruled. The satirical accounts he targeted as part of the lawsuit included a fake cow and one that parodies the California Republican’s mother. Judge John Marshall, of Virginia Circuit Court, wrote that Nunes “seeks …

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How to sell your used iPad

If you own an iPad ($170 at Amazon) that’s more than three or four years old, you might find it getting a little sluggish. Maybe you’ve run out of storage space, or the processor won’t support the latest versions of Apple’s operating system. Whatever the case, you’re thinking it’s time to sell. (Another option: repurpose that old iPad.) Whatever money …

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WWDC: How Apple’s Swift Student Challenge winners are fighting coronavirus

This story is part of Tech for a Better World, stories about the diverse teams creating products, apps and services to improve our lives and society. When the novel coronavirus made its way to the US in March, leaving doctors and nurses without necessary medical supplies, a hospital in Houston got help from an unlikely source: A 17-year-old technologist and Apple …

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Olympus leaves the camera business

Future former camera manufacturer Olympus announced (PDF) Wednesday it has agreed to sell its imaging business to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners. The deal will be complete by the end of the year. JIP bought Olympus’ telecom business in 2012 and snapped up Sony’s Vaio computers in 2014, to name a couple investments. Though cameras is the best known area …

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Amazon creates team to go after counterfeiters

Amazon on Wednesday said it set up a Counterfeit Crimes Unit to go after knockoffs being sold on its sites. The global team will investigate and launch legal action against counterfeiters. It’ll mine the e-commerce giant’s data and gather information from payment service providers and open source intelligence. The unit will take out civil cases against the people behind the …

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Huawei is backed by Chinese military, Trump administration finds

Huawei is owned or controlled by the Chinese military, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing an internal document from the US Defense Department. The Trump administration sent a document to Congress containing the names of 20 Chinese companies that it found to be backed by the People’s Liberation Army. The designation by the Pentagon enables the president to declare a national emergency …

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Sports streaming service FuboTV adds ESPN and ABC at last

FuboTV, a live-TV streaming service, announced Wednesday that it has signed a distribution deal with Disney that will finally bring ESPN to the sports-centric platform. The change is due to go live over the summer (date to be announced), so viewers with the base $55 package will now able to watch ABC, ABC News Live, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD, …

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Facebook’s experimental Forecast app wants to crowdsource predictions

Facebook’s New Product Experimentation team launched a new iOS app on Tuesday that aims to use crowdsourcing to predict future events. The app, called Forecast, will let people ask questions and then use in-app points to make predictions. To start, the NPE team said it’s inviting professionals in the health, research and academic communities in the US and Canada to …

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