April, 2020

• 29 April

  Best Buy laptop deals: Save up to $250 on midrange models

  

  It’s slim pickings for budget laptops at the moment with the combination of the coronavirus outbreak causing supply chain issues and prepandemic office dwellers picking up a cheap laptop to work from home. If your budget can stretch past $500, however, you’ll find a greater number of midrange laptops in stock. Such a machine is …

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• 29 April

  Facebook sees strong user growth as coronavirus pandemic creates uncertainty

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Facebook’s first-quarter revenue and user numbers beat Wall Street expectations Wednesday, even as the social media giant cautioned that the coronavirus pandemic has caused “unprecedented uncertainty” for the future of its ad business. Facebook has seen a surge in people using the social …

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• 29 April

  Upgrade your Marco Polo video chat app to HD for $5 a month

  

  Amid coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines, video chat app Marco Polo saw a 16x increase in new signups and a 3x increase in activity. To aid in the increase in business costs, the free video chat app is adding a subscription service for users who want to upgrade their service. The new subscription services, called Marco Polo Plus, includes HD video, …

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• 29 April

  Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra phones are reportedly cracking around the camera

  

  Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 Ultraphone is reportedly seeing a few issues, with some users complaining of a crack in the glass around the rear camera. Some have seen a slight fracture across the phone, while others have seen their glass shatter abruptly, according to a Digital Trends report Wednesday. You can see some of the complaints on Samsung’s user forum, …

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• 29 April

  Google, Samsung offer free smartphone repairs to first responders

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. With social distancing guidelines in place, smartphones have become vital tools for staying connected with friends and family. As a thank you to first responders, Samsung and Google have teamed up with uBreakiFix to offer free smartphone repairs to those on the front …

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• 29 April

  TikTok surpasses 2 billion download mark

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. TikTok, the popular video-sharing app known for its quirky 15-second videos, continued its rapid growth in the first quarter, despite concerns that users are putting their privacy at risk. The app has been downloaded more than 2 billion times from the Apple App …

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• 29 April

  Qualcomm expects a steep drop in phone shipments as coronavirus hurts demand

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Qualcomm on Wednesday became the latest company to confirm what everyone expected: The novel coronavirus pandemic is going to hurt phones sales. But a bright spot will be 5G, which should be just as strong this year as the company earlier predicted.  Qualcomm, …

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• 29 April

  Apple, Google deliver early tools to public health authorities for coronavirus tracking

  

  For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Apple and Google are delivering the first tools for their coronavirus tracking technology on Wednesday to certain public health authorities, with the aim of improving the technology before the software’s full release in mid-May.  During the initial testing phase, a limited group will …

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• 29 April

  Amazon, IBM and Microsoft race to bring global access to quantum computing

  

  In the heady world of quantum computing, there’s a race afoot. Across the globe, tech giants are building their own machines and speeding to make them available to the world as a cloud computing service. In the competition: IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Amazon, IonQ, Quantum Circuits, Rigetti Computing and the newest to uncloak its quantum computing plans, Honeywell.  They’re all …

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• 29 April

  How to pick the best iPad keyboard trackpad case

  

  Yes, the iPad is a computer. But is it a computer that can really replace your laptop or desktop? That depends on whether you can deal with the opportunities and restraints of iOS (or as it’s now called for iPads, iPadOS). Seriously, iPads can do a heck of a lot. Your iPad can supplement your Mac or PC to the …

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