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    • How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings on Yandex.Maps, holding Zoom conferences, more (Christopher Miller/BuzzFeed News)

    Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News: How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings on Yandex.Maps, holding Zoom conferences, more  —  Lockdown measures have stopped many protesters from going outside.  So they’re getting creative. How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings

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    • Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, on rearranged priorities due to the COVID-19 crisis, competition, his evolving strategy around M&A, and more (Tom Krazit/Protocol)

    Tom Krazit / Protocol: Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, on rearranged priorities due to the COVID-19 crisis, competition, his evolving strategy around M&A, and more  —  More than a year after he joined Google Cloud, the CEO has made little headway against AWS and Microsoft. Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google

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    • While others like Disney and WarnerMedia change schedules to try to salvage part of the year, Netflix says it has enough content to not move its 2020 slate (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

    Julia Alexander / The Verge: While others like Disney and WarnerMedia change schedules to try to salvage part of the year, Netflix says it has enough content to not move its 2020 slate  —  The streamer’s 2020 slate won’t move around, exec says  —  The most pressing issue entertainment companies around the world … While

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    • A look at Luminary Media, a year after its launch as "the Netflix of podcasting": company says subscriber base grew by 14% in the past six weeks amid lockdown (Gerry Smith/Bloomberg)

    Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: A look at Luminary Media, a year after its launch as “the Netflix of podcasting”: company says subscriber base grew by 14% in the past six weeks amid lockdown  —  No ads.  No Axelrod.  No problem.  New CEO is gung-ho on subscription model  —  When Luminary Media launched in April 2019

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    KiCad Panelization Made Easy

    There’s a new Python-based script that will panelize your KiCad circuit boards from the command line. The project by [Jan Mrázek] is called KiKit and works on .kicad_pcb files to arrange them in a grid with your choice of mousebites or v-cuts for separating the boards after production. When working with smaller boards it’s common

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    • Two former Huawei employees, who had labor disputes with the company, say they were detained by China after discussing Huawei sales to Iran in a WeChat group (Raymond Zhong/New York Times)

    Raymond Zhong / New York Times: Two former Huawei employees, who had labor disputes with the company, say they were detained by China after discussing Huawei sales to Iran in a WeChat group  —  China arrested five former employees who had discussed the tech giant’s Iranian sales in a chat group, raising questions about its

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    • Etsy says it is seeing Cyber Monday like demand in April for fabric-based face masks, as its stock price rises to all-time highs from a record low in March (Dave Lee/Financial Times)

    Dave Lee / Financial Times: Etsy says it is seeing Cyber Monday like demand in April for fabric-based face masks, as its stock price rises to all-time highs from a record low in March  —  Price climbs from record low to new high as 50,000 sellers turn to making coronavirus protection  —  At the end

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