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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 it has seen a 775% increase in use of its cloud services worldwide 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
HQ Trivia, which laid off its entire staff and shut down in February, has been acquired by an undisclosed investor and has already returned, airing another 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.
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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 … | 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.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
A look at the 3D animals and other objects viewable in Google Search using AR on a variety of smartphones and tablets, added since Google's 2019 I/O Conference — At its I/O conference in 2019, Google announced that it would be adding augmented reality objects to Search.
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| Zara Stone / OneZero : |
A look at video chat service Houseparty, which has topped the Australian, Canadian, and UK iOS App Stores and is like Zoom but with built-in games — ast Saturday night, Jason Shaverin, a 36-year-old project manager in London, spent three hours talking to friends on Houseparty … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
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