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- Apple and Google Team Up on a Contact-Tracing API
Apple and Google jointly announced a Bluetooth exposure-notification API to let public health apps on iOS and Android interoperate.
- Long March 3B Fails at Launch, Takes Indonesian Satellite Down With It
A Long March 3B rocket suffered a third-stage engine anomaly on April 9, destroying Indonesia's Palapa-N1 satellite in China's second launch failure in under a month.
- Samsung Brings 5G Downmarket With the Galaxy A51 5G and A71 5G
Samsung's new A51 5G and A71 5G bring 5G, Infinity-O displays, and quad cameras to the mid-range starting at $499.99.
- Visual Studio Online Gets a New Name: Visual Studio Codespaces
Microsoft rebrands Visual Studio Online as Visual Studio Codespaces, betting on cloud-hosted dev environments as the future of coding.
- Neanderthals Were Making Cord 50,000 Years Ago, and That Changes the Story
New evidence from a French site shows Neanderthals used fiber and cord technology far earlier than assumed, challenging old ideas about their cognition.
- Your Laptop Is Stuck in a Warehouse Somewhere
Work-from-home demand is colliding with COVID-19 factory slowdowns, and budget laptops and webcams are vanishing from shelves.
- Teams and Meet Scramble to Catch Zoom's Lockdown Boom
Microsoft Teams and Google Meet report huge usage spikes as they race Zoom for the suddenly essential video-call market.
- Starlink's Satellite Fleet Keeps Growing, and So Does Astronomers' Frustration
SpaceX has dozens of Starlink batches in orbit, and astronomers are increasingly vocal about bright satellite streaks ruining telescope images.
- T-Mobile and Sprint Are Officially One Company Now
T-Mobile closed its $26.5 billion Sprint merger on April 1, 2020, collapsing the US carrier market from four major players to three.
- Zoom Hits Pause: Eric Yuan Promises 90 Days of Security-Only Work
Zoom's CEO admits the app's security and privacy failed under lockdown-driven growth, freezing new features for 90 days to fix them.