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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Report: CDC, state and local authorities in the US have started using anonymized location data from mobile ads to help plan their response to the pandemic — The use of phone location tracking to keep tabs on COVID-19 is becoming increasingly common, and the US appears to be no exception.
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| Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
Microsoft says that there has been a 775% increase in use of its cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders — This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services.
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Microsoft 365 Blog, Cloud Computing Services, Forbes, Stevivor, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Shrewsbury Tech, MSPoweruser, The Register, Thurrott, GeekWire, VG247, and Dot Esports
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Crowdsourced data from Candor shows 267 tech companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, while 111, like Zoom and Twitter, are hiring — The coronavirus has taken a toll on the workforce, and now you can see a list of who's hiring, freezing hires, laying off people …
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| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google should add contact tracing functionality, similar to Singapore's TraceTogether app, in a privacy-respecting way to iOS and Android — After the shutdown, the testing and tracing. “Trace, test and treat is the mantra ... no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement” in South Korea.| Reuters: |
Sources: production ramp-up for 5G iPhones at some of Apple's suppliers has been postponed; one key display supplier mulls lowering production targets by 17%+ — (Reuters) - As China reopens its economy after months of lockdown, Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone factories are largely up and running.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
HQ Trivia, which laid off its entire staff and shut down in February, has been acquired by an undisclosed investor and is returning tonight with a new show — HQ Trivia, the live game-show app that shut down in February and laid off its entire staff, is unexpectedly returning tonight with a new show.| Financial Times: |
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet — New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
As the Authors Guild voices its opposition to Internet Archive's National Emergency Library, a look at the legal issues related to digital book lending — Massive online library project is venturing into uncharted legal waters. — One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook's security team had disinfo concerns about The Daily Wire's sites in 2019, clashing with the policy team, which prevented action being taken — After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
Tweets: @alkapdc, @rmac18, and @slpng_giants
| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
Data from a whistleblower appears to show Saudi Arabia tracking the location of its citizens in the US by exploiting flaws in the SS7 phone network protocol — Exclusive: Whistleblower's data suggests millions of tracking requests sent over four-month period
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
UK's NHS says it is working with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and Faculty AI on a dashboard that shows the spread of the virus and NHS' ability to deal with it — The NHS has confirmed it is teaming up with leading tech firms to ensure critical medical equipment is available to the facilities …
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Technology in the NHS. Tweets: @nhsx, @rachelcoldicutt, @lisafox202, @danielkorski, @palantirtech, @jdr_tech, @nmrperrin, @tomcopsymes, @jenit, @yvesalexandre, @benpatrickwill, @rowlsmanthorpe, @paulias, @peterkwells, @ruskin147, and @halhod
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure should let startups and small businesses defer their cloud infrastructure payments for three to six months — Or their COVID-disrupted customers could shut down — Google, Amazon and Microsoft are the landlords.| Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: |
AppBrain: Google Classroom, which wasn't in the top 100 most popular apps in the Play Store at the start of March, surpasses 50M installs, joins top 5 in the US — Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most schools and universities around the world have had to close.
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