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Civil liberties experts argue that governments turning to electronic surveillance to track COVID-19 opens the door to future abuses, as happened after 9/11 — Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.
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| Reuters: |
Mobile operators in Italy, Germany, and Austria are now sharing anonymized aggregated data with health authorities, to map people's concentrations and movements — MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Mobile carriers are sharing data with the health authorities in Italy, Germany and Austria … | Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is planning a high-end 6.7-inch iPhone in 2020 with sensor-shift image stabilization, expanding to two or three new iPhone models in 2021 — Apple is rumored to be planning a high-end 6.7-inch iPhone model for release in 2020, and multiple reports have indicated that the device …
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
As Amazon prioritizes household staples and other high-demand items, some non-essential items are now showing April 21 delivery dates even with Amazon Prime — An Amazon delivery man in Paris, France, on March 19, 2020. Getty Images — The e-commerce giant is prioritizing household staples …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a critical zero-day flaw in font rendering that is found in all supported versions of Windows; no patch is available — Microsoft says attackers are exploiting a previously undisclosed security vulnerability found in all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 10.
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| Nikkei Asian Review: |
Foxconn says it has secured enough workers to meet “seasonal demand” at all major Chinese plants ahead of schedule — Recruitment goals ahead of schedule, as Apple prepares for new model releases — TAIPEI — Taiwan's Foxconn, the top assembler of Apple's iPhones …
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| Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg: |
Apple's request for Apple Watches to be excluded from a 7.5% US tariff on Chinese imports has been approved — - USTR notifies company of decision in letter dated Friday — Watches were subject to 7.5% tariff from U.S.-China trade war — Apple Inc.'s request for its popular watches …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 14 code reveals new features in Find My, including an AR mode and new notification options, like being alerted if someone does not arrive at a place on time — Apple's Find My app will include useful new features in iOS 14, 9to5Mac has learned, including augmented reality mode and new location triggers.
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International Business Times, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Appleosophy, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, and Wccftech. Tweets: @apollozac
| Chris Nuttall / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU reconsiders its digital strategy, unveiled last month, after the pandemic highlights issues like the limitations imposed by proposed AI regulation — SoftBank's emergency asset sales, voice network under strain, 2020 MacBook Air — The coronavirus crisis is forcing the EU …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia announces Deep Learning Super Sampling 2.0, hoping to show that using machine learning to upscale a game's resolution boosts both performance and visuals — Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is one of the marquee features for Nvidia's RTX video cards, but it's also one people tend to overlook or outright dismiss.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The New York Times Company acquires Audm, a subscription-based audio app offering listeners longform articles read by actors and celebrities for $8.99 per month — Audm, a startup that turns longform journalism into audio content, has been acquired by The New York Times Company, it announced this morning.| Shirley Zhao / Bloomberg: |
Chinese mobile carriers report losing 20M+ users; the world's largest carrier China Mobile dropped by 8M subs over Jan. and Feb., its first net drop in decades — - China Mobile leads drop with 8 million decline in subscribers — China Telecom, Unicom have also reported drops in users| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils new tools for game developers including Android Performance Tuner, Android GPU Inspector, and a NoSQL cloud database called Cloud Firestore — Google today announced a bunch of new tools for game developers: Google Play Asset Delivery, Android Performance Tuner, Android GPU Inspector, and Cloud Firestore, among others.
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ZDNet, Android Developers, Android Developers Blog, The Keyword, and 9to5Google
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Ban on targeted behavioral advertising may be the single best way to fix the internet, from protecting privacy and sanitizing social media, to saving journalism — From protecting privacy to saving the free press, it may be the single best way to fix the internet.
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| PR Newswire: |
Twitter withdraws Q1 guidance due to COVID-19, says it expects Q1 revenue to be down YoY but the number of monetizable DAUs has hit 164M, up 8% QoQ and 23% YoY — Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced the company is withdrawing its revenue and operating income guidance for the first quarter of 2020 …
| Instacart News: |
Instacart to bring on 300,000 new workers in US and Canada over next three months, offering shoppers access to sick pay and extended pay for those with COVID-19 — Instacart today announced plans to bring on an additional 300,000 full-service shoppers across North America over the next 3 months …
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Q&A with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on COVID-19 and its impact on the company, competing with Microsoft and Zoom, and Slack's new redesign — “We should always be doing what a smart, well-informed customer would have us be doing.” — More than 10 years ago, Stewart Butterfield … Sponsor Posts
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