Everybody chill, Big Tech’s got this Roundup Welcome to the first in what we at The Register fervently hope will be a short-lived series: it’s time for a tech COVID-19 roundup.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

India is turning to WhatsApp, the most popular app in the country, to create awareness about the coronavirus pandemic and has urged social media services to tackle the spread of misinformation on their platforms. From a report: Narendra Modi, India’s Prime Minister, said on Saturday that citizens in the country can text a WhatsApp bot…

Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X, formerly known as Project Scarlet, is slated for release in the holiday period of 2020. Like any new console release, it promises better graphics, more immersive gameplay, and all manner of other superlatives in the press releases. In a sharp change from previous generations, however, suddenly everybody is talking about…

Escaping to try Valve’s first Half-Life game in years was a bigger challenge than I expected. …read more Source:: CNet

Who wants 999 iPhones? As Apple stores outside of Mainland China remain stubbornly closed, the firm has dropped the two-iPhone limit on its website, allowing customers to (theoretically) spend millions on shiny new mobes.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft has announced that it is pausing the rollout of Edge v81, citing the ongoing “global circumstances” surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. From a report: New Edge releases (or any other kind of software updates) usually entail security reviews and compatibility testing to ensure operating systems and internal web applications don’t break. Due to the COVID-19…

Amazon Web Services launched AWS Savings Plans for EC2, Fargate, and Lambda. …read more Source:: ZDNet

There’s a focused, hands-on style of VC investing emerging from Brazil that might turn out to be more efficient than the Silicon Valley approach. …read more Source:: ZDNet

For many, the cancellation of major sporting events was the moment that made the coronavirus pandemic feel real for the first time. But while fans of baseball, basketball, soccer are left wondering when they’ll see players back in action, racing fans don’t have to wait — because many of their favorite drivers are already competing…

The ongoing coronavirus crisis has thrown the release schedule of cultural products into chaos, as now is an exceptionally bad time to drop anything that isn’t a government check for lost wages. Jeremy Gordon, writing for The Outline: Our cultural producers — movie studios, publishing houses, television networks, and so forth — must decide whether…