Welcome to today's Pulse! Hope you're all safe and healthy. I tried to keep Pulse as COVID-19-free a
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Welcome to todayโs Pulse! Hope youโre all safe and healthy. I tried to keep Pulse as COVID-19-free as possible, but COVID-19 is bigger and more important than anything I write about here. Thereโs no escaping it - at least in terms of news. Tech, media, and business - and almost everything I write about - are either slowing down or completely shut down. However, this doesnโt mean that thereโs nothing interesting happening. Stay home and catch up on what you always wanted to do. This might be way too glass half full, but youโve been given the gift of timeโฆ use it โ not everyoneโs so luckyโฆ
By the way, if I quarantine myself, thereโs a good chance Iโll send more emails to Pulse Members. You can either support me & Pulse by becoming a member for as little as $5 (almost 1 cup of Starbucks) a month, or click here so I can add you to the list for free.
Ps. Happy Nowrouz (Persian New Year); and the start of the Spring.
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- Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Prime Video say they will reduce their streaming quality in EU to reduce traffic on the network, as millions are confined at home [Reuters] โ writing this while my broadband is down and Iโm using my mobile hotspotโฆ
- After canceling Google I/Oโs in-person event in early March, Google now says it will โnot be holding an I/O event in any capacity this yearโ [9to5Google] โ someone had to startโฆ will others follow? Apple? Facebook? Probably.
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Microsoft Teams passed 44M DAUs, up from 32M earlier this month, unveils new features like real-time noise suppression that are coming later this year [VentureBeat] โ it would be interesting to see if they can keep the numbers up post-COVID19โฆ
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The Bank of England has an interesting position paper on digital currency possibilities, going beyond crypto [PDF].
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Apple unveils new 11" and 12.9" iPad Pro with a lidar scanner for depth-sensing, backlit keyboard and trackpad [Apple], new MacBook Air with a Magic Keyboard featuring scissor-style keys, 13.3" display, Touch ID, and 10th-gen Intel Core CPUs [Apple].
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Sony details full PlayStation 5 specs: a custom eight-core AMD Zen 2 CPU, custom GPU based on AMDโs RDNA 2 with 10.28 teraflops, 16GB RAM, and custom 825GB SSD [EuroGamer].
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COVID-19 & Global Economy - Credit: Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash
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COVID-19: Implications for business The coronavirus outbreak is first and foremost a human tragedy, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. It is also having a growing impact on the global economy. This article is intended to provide business leaders with a perspective on the evolving situation and implications for their companies. The outbreak is moving quickly, and some of the perspectives in this article may fall rapidly out of date. This article reflects our perspective as of March 16, 2020. We will update it regularly as the outbreak evolves.
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- The WHOโs dashboard of COVID-19 stats [Link].
- The UK COVID-19 Cases Update [Link]
โ ๏ธ itโs more than a little scary!
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Astrology App Revenue - Credit: SensorTower
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U.S. Astrology App Revenue Grew 64.7% to Nearly $40 Million in 2019 Three of 2019โs highest-earning apps have appeared in the top 10 each year since 2016. Zodiac Touch saw the most significant increase in 2019 over its 2016 revenue at 75% growth, while Psychic Txt and Purple Ocean grew 45.5% and 8%, respectively, over the past four years.
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Grocery Delivery Apps - Credit: Apptopia
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Grocery Delivery Apps Set Consecutive Days of Record Downloads Instacart, Walmart Grocery and Shipt have all been setting record download days for downloads of their mobile apps each day for the past three days. Sunday March 15, 2020 was again a new record for each app. Weโve been getting a lot of inquiries asking if food delivery is on the rise in the United States due to the spread of COVID-19. We very recently reported the market is actually cooling in this country. Before we check back in with food delivery, letโs look at grocery delivery.
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according to them though.
pretty handy illustrations.
works on iOS and Android.
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โItโs Like a Warโ - The Daily
Italy has become the epicentre of the pandemicโs European migration, with nearly 30,000 infections and more than 2,000 deaths in just a few weeks. These numbers are soaring by the day, even after the government took extreme measures to lock down much of the country. Guest: Dr Fabiano Di Marco, a professor at the University of Milan who is also the head of the respiratory unit of the Hospital Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo, a nearby town. Itโs a heartbreaking but eyeopening story.
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The Confrontation - Invisibilia
Welcome to what is possibly the most tense and uncomfortable summer program in America! The Boston-based program aims to teach the next generation the real truth about race, and may provide some ideas for the rest of us about the right way to confront someone to their face. Itโs super uncomfortable, but a fantastic story.
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Thereโs no such thing as an original idea. Everything is a remix of a remix of a remix.
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How embarrassing would it be to catch the 2009 swine flu right now
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Please allow yourself one small 'lol' today by picturing the many spectacular homemade haircuts people will emerge from quarantine with.
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14 Year Wedding Anniversary. Can't go out to celebrate. This happens. - Credit: Trampolice
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wait so did we ever talk about how literally ever card in the universe has the chip on the left except the apple card? https://t.co/yl8Qu6ZcX8
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Perspective - Credit: HonestlyFake.com
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