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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 …
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Taiwan rolls out a mobile phone-based “electronic fence” that uses location-tracking to ensure people who are quarantined stay in their homes — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, which has won global praise for its effective action against the coronavirus, is rolling out a mobile phone-based …
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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 — The e-commerce giant is prioritizing household staples and other high-demand items during the coronavirus outbreak.
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Android Police, VentureBeat, Engadget, TechSpot, The Next Web, Gizchina, and The Verge
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| John Harris / The Guardian: |
Facebook has facilitated the formation of an estimated 300 local coronavirus support groups in the UK, whose combined membership now totals 1M+ people — As coronavirus forces communities online, support groups are realising Facebook's promise to truly connect us — About 25 years ago, “face time” was a new phrase.
Tweets: @ianclucas
| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
After banning ads for medical face masks over a week ago, ads served by Google for masks have shown alongside COVID-19 news on sites like CNN, NYT, CNBC, WaPo — New York (CNN Business)Some of the country's biggest news organizations are showing ads for face masks on their websites.| Stan Chudnovsky / Messenger News: |
Facebook launches a program to partner with developers to use Messenger to support government health agencies with timely and reliable info about coronavirus — Today, we're announcing two initiatives to support government health organizations in combating the coronavirus pandemic.| 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.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Uber and Ola to suspend ride-hailing services in Delhi till March 31 to help contain virus following government order for city lockdown — Uber and Ola have suspended all ride options in Delhi till March 31 and the Indian ride-hailing firm is restricting ride options across the country in a bid to slow the coronavirus pandemic.
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Neowin, The Economic Times, NDTV.com, News18, and Quartz
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Reports: data on 538M Weibo users, including real names, site usernames, gender, location info, and 172M phone numbers, is up for sale on the dark web — Data for 538 million Weibo users, including 172 million phone numbers, has been put up for sale on the dark web.| Gian Volpicelli / WIRED UK: |
How data sources like satellite images and internet traffic are helping researchers track the impact of COVID-19 outbreaks better than official government data — Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19 — Something was wrong with Malaysia's internet.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Nextdoor launches Help Map, a new interactive tool that lets neighbors offer help to one another with tasks like grocery shopping — Help shop for groceries or just check in on your at-risk neighbors — Nextdoor, the social networking app designed around local communities … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
IBM, Department of Energy, White House OSTP, others launch a consortium to give COVID-19 researchers access to supercomputers, 330+ petaflops of computing power — Following the launch of its 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge, IBM today announced that it will help coordinate an effort …
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