Wed. 05/13 – What If We Never Go Back To The Office?

New XPS laptops, new Fire HD tablets, Facebook is compensating content moderators, how the pandemic has affected clothes shopping, and how the aftermath of the pandemic might affect offices in the sense of: will we actually ever go back to them?

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Links:

• Dell launches new XPS 17 and redesigned XPS 15 with 16:10 edge-to-edge displays (The Verge)
• Amazon updates the Fire HD 8 with a faster processor, more RAM, and USB-C (The Verge)
• Facebook will pay $52 million in settlement with moderators who developed PTSD on the job (The Verge)
• Apple plans to add audio versions of publisher articles to Apple News+ (Digiday)
• US e-commerce sales jump 49% in April, led by online grocery (TechCrunch)
• Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever (Buzzfeed News)
• Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg)

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