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Shopify is giving its employees $1,000 to furnish their work-from-home setups...
Employees at the e-commerce platform Shopify are among hundreds of thousands who have been told to work from home amid efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.A source familiar with the matter...
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An old flash computer game is getting a 2nd life because of its eerie...
An old online game called Pandemic 2 has seen a massive spike in plays in 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak.The strategy game allows users to create their own diseases, from symptoms to transmission...
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How to work from home after spending your whole career in an office,...
Companies around the world are ordering their employees to work from home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.Even before the outbreak, tech companies were increasingly building all-remote...
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Popcorn Time, the infamous 'Netflix for piracy' app, has made its return amid...
Popcorn Time is a notorious application that was wildly popular in 2014 for allowing users to illegally stream movies and TV shows for free.The software, which was shut down in 2014, appears to have...
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The US's top doctor is calling on Kylie Jenner and other influencers to help...
The US Surgeon General Jerome Adams called into "Good Morning America" Thursday morning to talk about the coronavirus pandemic.Adams called on social-media influencers — including Kylie Jenner and NBA...
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YouTube and Amazon Prime are following Netflix by reducing streaming quality...
YouTube and Amazon both said Friday they would reduce the quality of their streams in Europe to deal with the influx of internet traffic amid the coronavirus outbreak.The two companies' announcements...
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All your friends are using Zoom, the video-chat app that is suddenly...
Zoom, a teleconferencing application typically used by businesses, has become the hot new way for people to connect while social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.Zoom has seemingly replaced...
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Charli D'Amelio has officially become the most followed creator on TikTok
Charli D'Amelio is now the most popular creator on TikTok, the viral video-sharing app where she has reached 41.4 million followers.D'Amelio, 15, is the definition of an overnight star: Since her first...
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Netflix says it fixed the outage issue that people across the US and Europe...
Netflix users in the United States and western Europe reported issues Wednesday accessing the platform.Netflix and other platforms have been dealing with a deluge of traffic amid the coronavirus...
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One of the internet's oldest fact-checking organizations is overwhelmed by...
Misinformation regarding the coronavirus has proliferated online amid the outbreak, to the extent the World Health Organization has declared a news "infodemic."One of the internet's oldest...
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YouTube is reportedly planning to launch an in-app rival to viral...
YouTube is reportedly planning to launch a shortform video-sharing feature before the end of 2020 designed to rival the viral platform TikTok, The Information reports.The feature, called "Shorts," will...
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I've paid $18 to watch British theater broadcasts in NYC movie theaters — and...
As the coronavirus pandemic has crippled industries around the world, theaters have been forced to close their doors.Rather than going completely dark, major American venues like The Wooster Group and...
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A platform for booking musicians in the UK pivots to letting users pay...
Coronavirus has struck the music industry hard, causing concerts to be canceled and forcing artists to find alternative revenue streams.Encore, a platform used for booking musicians for gigs, has...
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Instagram has been rolling out Direct Messages to your desktop — here's how...
Instagram said in January it was starting to roll out direct-messaging on desktop computers and web browsers, but many users are just starting to see the change this week.Direct Messages have long been...
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Quibi made its content screenshot-proof, but the platform could lose valuable...
Quibi, a new mobile-only streaming platform, launched Monday featuring vertical, short-form shows and and movies.Users were quick to discover that they're unable to take screenshots of shows they're...
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Coronavirus scams cost people $7 million in the first 9 days of April —...
The FTC has received more than 15,000 coronavirus-related consumer complaints of fraud and scams in 2020, including 7,200 complaints in the first nine days of April.Scammers and grifters have...
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'Predatory' companies like Monat and Mary Kay are using memes and coronavirus...
Roughly 16.8 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks as coronavirus takes its toll on the economy.The time of uncertainty and chaos has created an opportunity for...
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Zoom, TikTok dances, and sourdough bread: How coronavirus self-isolation has...
On March 19, California became the first US state to issue a stay-at-home order to curb the spread of the coronavirus.Since then, 42 states have issued stay-at-home orders, affecting an estimated 95%...
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Staying up late reading scary news? There's a word for that: 'doomscrolling'
The coronavirus outbreak has led millions to spend their days at home under quarantine, and rely on the internet for communication with the outside world and entertainment to pass the time.Many of us...
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Selena Gomez filed a $10 million lawsuit claiming a gaming company used her...
Selena Gomez has filed a lawsuit against the developers and sellers of a mobile fashion game for using her likeness without her consent.According to the lawsuit, obtained by Business Insider, the...
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