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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom — Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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Reuters, Twitter, GeekWire, Washington Post, Axios, Elad Blog, Android Headlines, TechRepublic, Reuters, Washington Post, Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Sramana Mitra, Engadget, SlashGear, Engadget, Business Insider, MIT Technology Review, Washington Post, Digital Trends, Neowin, BuzzFeed News, and TechCrunch
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before Q2, as suppliers like lens manufacturer Genius Electronic Optical struggle to keep up amid COVID-19 — Apple's iPhone production will not significantly improve until the second quarter of 2020, according to a research note …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO — Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Alphabet's X unveils Tidal, a moonshot project to track thousands of fish using computer vision and AI to protect the ocean and help feed humanity sustainably — Latest Division X project aims to help fish farmers, and the planet — Today Alphabet is announcing Tidal …
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Financial Times, X, the moonshot factory, The Next Web, VentureBeat, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, and 9to5Google
| New York Times: |
A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19 — A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher demos multiple ways of how to take over and repurpose allegedly state sponsored Mac malware — Former NSA hacker repackages in-the-wild Mac malware for his own use. — SAN FRANCISCO—Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors'.
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Wired, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Ubrigens, and Malwarebytes Labs
Tweets: @patrickwardle, @dangoodin001, @jamfsoftware, @ihackbanme, and @thomasareed
| BuzzFeed News: |
Several terabytes of stolen adult content from OnlyFans, a social media platform popular with sex workers, influencers, and porn actors, have leaked — A leak of several terabytes of pornographic images and videos from clip site OnlyFans went viral on Thursday.
Tweets: @allyo_reilly
| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia's library is sparse because Google wasn't offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future — - Last November, Google finally launched a major gaming platform that was in development for years: Google Stadia.
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GamingBolt, Kotaku, PC Games Insider, MSPoweruser, The Overspill, Game Rant, SlashGear, 9to5Google, VG247, and Android Central
Tweets: @tha_rami, @mcclure111, @carnage4life, @grummz, @jerkob, @vgfgamers, @jeremypenter, @whatusaymark, @paultassi, and @realbengilbert
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
How CEO Robert Swan is overhauling Intel's culture to improve the relationship between chip designers and manufacturing, and vastly speeding up product design — Robert Swan, who leads the world's biggest chip maker, is pushing his 110,000 employees to confront internal problems more openly.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @jonmasters
| Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: |
Indian used-car platform Spinny raises $43.7M Series B led by the Fundamentum Partnership, claims to have sold 10,000 cars through its marketplace — Full-stack pre-owned car retailing platform Spinny announced that it has raised $43.7 million in Series B funding round led by Nandan Nilekani … | Leah Nylen / Politico: |
AG Bill Barr, a close Trump ally, has spent months taking greater control of DOJ's antitrust probes into big tech firms, sidelining current antitrust leadership — Recent moves have sidelined DOJ's antitrust leaders, leaving oversight of investigations into companies like Google to the AG's handpicked staff.Sponsor Posts
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