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• WWDC 2020: Everything Apple Announced — Apple's 31st Worldwide Developers Conference was a digital-only event in 2020, with no physical gathering in California due to the ongoing global health crisis.
• YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99 - The Verge — YouTube TV has announced that it’ll be raising its monthly price from $50 per month to $64.99 as the company starts to offer eight of ViacomCBS’s channels, which are available today: BET, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land, and VH1.
• Data caps on Comcast, T-Mobile return on July 1 | PCWorld

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• Pixel Buds users are reporting Bluetooth connection issues - The Verge — Owners of Google’s new Pixel Buds are reporting a variety of connection issues with the true wireless earbuds. 9to5Google reports that issues have been raised on Google’s support forums as well as in a number of Reddit threads, and the problems have been replicated on review devices held by DroidLife, 9to5Google, and our own pair here at The Verge.
• Plex lets you host virtual movie nights with remote friends and family members — There are third-party extensions like Scener that allow us to watch content from Netflix, HBO, and other services together while staying apart during these times of coronavirus-induced social distancing orders, but Plex is ready to up this with a native solution. It has announced a new Plex Labs experiment that allows you to watch shows, movies, and videos from your library together with others, perfectly synced up for everyone.
• “The trampoline is working”—SpaceX returns human spaceflight to America | Ars Technica — Two human lives, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, hung in the balance. Thousands of people had put a decade of immensely hard work into reaching this moment. Success meant that NASA finally had its own access into space for astronauts. And it is not really an overstatement to say that if SpaceX flubbed this launch on the biggest of stages—if the unthinkable happened—it would scar the future of commercial space.
• Critical 'Sign in with Apple' Bug Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Anyone's Account — Apple recently paid Indian vulnerability researcher Bhavuk Jain a huge $100,000 bug bounty for reporting a highly critical vulnerability affecting its 'Sign in with Apple' system.

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• Access your browsing history w/o a warrant? Senate votes yes. - 9to5Mac — The US Senate yesterday voted – by a single vote – to allow government agencies like the FBI and CIA to access your browsing history without a warrant.
• Facebook Acquires Giphy — Facebook is reportedly acquiring Giphy, the popular GIF sharing platform. Giphy, founded in 2013, has become a leading platform for sharing GIFs in recent years.
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• Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Review: Why the iPad Is My Primary Computer — The Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Review video Ervin was referencing.

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PS5 Tech Demo

Pixel Camera lead leaves

https://blog.wink.com/wink-blog/2020/5/6/introducing-wink-subscription

Wink Alternative: https://hubitat.com/

How to get things that aren’t in stock (Switch, TP, etc)

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• PS5 Unreal Engine 5 Demo
• The mastermind of Google’s Pixel camera quietly left the company in March - The Verge — Two key Pixel execs, including the computer researcher who led the team that developed the computational photography powering the Pixel’s camera, have left Google in recent months, according to a new report from The Information.
• Introducing Wink Subscription — Wink Blog — Should you choose not to sign up for a subscription you will no longer be able to access your Wink devices from the app, with voice control or through the API,
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• Smart Home Hub - Hubitat Review - YouTube
• Product Availability and In Stock Tracker Service | zooLert
• NowInStock.net Product Availability Tracker and In Stock Notification System

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https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Contact-Tracing.aspx

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/php/open-america/contact-tracing.html

https://www.apple.com/covid19/contacttracing

Pixel Buds impressions

Apple watch impressions from a late adopter

https://blog.google/products/meet/bringing-google-meet-to-more-people

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241497/apple-ios-13-beta-faceid-face-mask-unlock-passcode-facetime-group-calls

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Zoom security concerns

Zoom Alternatives that we have personally used. This list is organized by feature-set and ease of use. The easier to use and safer, the better. Lower in the list are those that sacrifice security for features.

https://meet.jit.si/

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2019 Phone Buyer Guide

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• Blizzard claims 'China had no influence' on decision to ban blitzchung - Business Insider
• Blizzard fans make 'Overwatch's' Mei a mascot in Hong Kong protests meme - Business Insider
• Here's everything Google announced at the Pixel 4 event

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*Android 10 is out

*Android 10 Bugs

*Delete these Android Apps, they’re infected with Malware

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• A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online | TechCrunch
• Android 10 is rolling out to Pixels starting today
• Every new Android 10 feature: The in-depth changelog for Google's latest OS
• Android 10 has a terrible bug that can’t be fixed – BGR
• Joker Malware: Delete These 24 Malware-Infested Android Apps Right Now | Digital Trends
• More Pixel 4 images leak as ‘Coral’ model is caught on video
• Everything Apple Announced at Today's iPhone Event in Just Seven Minutes - MacRumors

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