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New York's AG sent a letter to Zoom expressing concern over security vulnerabilities and privacy practices as more users conduct sensitive tasks on the service — As the videoconferencing platform's popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Around 60 employees staged a walkout at a Staten Island, NY fulfillment center to protest the impact of Amazon's COVID-19 response on warehouse workers — As Amazon workers across the country test positive for the virus, employees believe collective action is the only way to get the company to meaningfully clean its facilities
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon confirms that it fired a worker, who led the Staten Island warehouse strike, for violating its quarantine measures; worker says firing was in retaliation — - Worker Chris Smalls says labor activism led to his dismissal — Amazon says Smalls violated safety conditions, quarantine
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches App Stories, which lets developers syndicate Stories in other apps, where they will default to a seven-day expiration — If you can't stop them, power them. That's the strategy behind Snapchat App Stories, which launches today to let users show off their ephemeral content in other apps too.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: videoconferencing apps saw a record 62M downloads during the week of March 14-21, up 45% from the prior week — Work-from-home policies, social distancing and government lockdowns have increased the demand for video conferencing apps, for both business and personal use.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Comcast says internet traffic from voice and video calls has risen 212% on its network over the past month and the overall peak traffic is up by 32% — Traffic zooms up as more people work from home — Voice and video calls have more than tripled on Comcast's network …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: in early March, Apple started letting some engineers take home early versions of future devices to continue work during the lockdown period — With its 175-acre campus in Cupertino, California, and several dozen more offices across the rest of the world, Apple Inc. wasn't designed as a work-at-home company.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts a Family Safety mobile app and AI-powered PowerPoint and Excel features as part of its 365 Family and Personal subscriptions, coming April 21 — Microsoft today announced that on April 21, Office 365 will become Microsoft 365, or “the subscription for your life.”
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify for Kids launches in the US, Canada, and France on the $14.99/month Spotify Premium Family tier with 8,000 songs, of which 50% is localized — Spotify is giving more housebound parents — and their cooped-up kids — a new tool to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| Victoria Song / Gizmodo: |
Fitbit unveils Charge 4 fitness tracker with built-in GPS, NFC payments, and Spotify compatibility, starting at $150, available for preorder online today — As we entered a new decade, Fitbit's fortunes looked uncertain. Last year, the company was acquired by Google for a neat $2.1 billion …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
A US federal court rules that simply breaking a site's terms of service does not constitute criminal hacking under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — Courts have struggled to interpret the vague Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. — A federal court in Washington, DC, has ruled that violating …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Axonius, which provides a cybersecurity-focused network asset management service, raises $58M Series C led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — As companies get to grips with a wider (and, lately, more enforced) model of remote working, a startup that provides a platform to help track and manage …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Seegrid, which builds autonomous industrial vehicles for transporting materials, raises $25M from G2VP — Seegrid, a company that builds autonomous industrial vehicles for transporting materials, has raised $25 million in round of equity funding from venture capital firm G2VP.
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China-based Yuanfudao, which offers online courses and homework plans to students, raises $1B led by Tencent, raising its valuation to $7.8B from $3B in 2018 — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese online education platform Yuanfudao said on Tuesday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round …
| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Instacart says worker strike had “no impact” on its operations and that its workforce has seen 40% earnings rise in the past month compared to the month prior — As demand for their service soars, Instacart workers are asking for basic support like health protections and better pay.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Disney says it will launch Disney+ in India on April 3 and raise the yearly subscription cost of Disney+Hotstar to $20, up from $13.20 — Disney said on Tuesday that it will launch its streaming service, Disney+, in India on April 3. The service, available globally in about a dozen markets … | Tristan Harris / Center for Humane Technology: |
To save lives, we need technology that acts more like a thoughtful journalist, doctor, or other fiduciary agent that cares about the ethics of their choices — We are in an emergency. This article is a call to action for major tech platforms to get more aggressive about saving lives.
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