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    • What is Twitch, even?

    Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is difficult to describe, to understand, and to start using. It is also incredibly rewarding once you get the hang of it, which is the way these things tend to go: the harder it is to get into something, the more you’ll like your mastery of it.

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    • Airbnb lowers its internal valuation to $26B, a 16% drop since its last funding round; the company faces as much as an estimated 90% drop in bookings (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

    Dave Lee / Financial Times: Airbnb lowers its internal valuation to $26B, a 16% drop since its last funding round; the company faces as much as an estimated 90% drop in bookings  —  Exclusive: short-term rental site hit by sharp drop in bookings because of coronavirus outbreak  —  The short-term rental site Airbnb … Airbnb

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    • Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets (Micah Lee/The Intercept)

    Micah Lee / The Intercept: Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets  —  Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious … Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by

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    • Pinterest CEO and a team of multi-disciplinary scientists launch How We Feel app to collect global COVID-19 data daily while respecting user privacy (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

    Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Pinterest CEO and a team of multi-disciplinary scientists launch How We Feel app to collect global COVID-19 data daily while respecting user privacy  —  There have been a few scattered efforts to leverage crowd-sourced self-reporting of symptoms as a way to potentially predict and chart … Pinterest CEO and a team

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