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Sources: NHSX, UK health service's technology arm, is working on a Bluetooth-based contact tracing app with Google and Apple at a “breakneck speed” — Ministers have ordered the creation of an NHS mobile phone app the government hopes will help end the coronavirus lockdown.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Apple says COVID-19 contact tracing apps can include duration of proximity when deciding what is a proximity event, potentially limiting false positive pings — Adoption is the hard part of contact tracing apps so far — but if it's baked into the operating system, it gets a lot easier
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
NHSX to test an app for users to send a “yellow alert” if they self-diagnose with COVID-19 symptoms and a “red alert” if they test positive, to recent contacts — The UK has confirmed plans for an app that will warn users if they have recently been in close proximity …
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| Ross Anderson / Light Blue Touchpaper: |
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption — There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.
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| The Guardian: |
Leaked docs reveal the extent of UK's cooperation with Faculty and Palantir on a “Covid-19 datastore” to power the previously announced NHS pandemic dashboard — Technology firms are processing large volumes of confidential UK patient information in a data-mining operation …
Tweets: @rowlsmanthorpe, @paullewis, @thattimwalker, @carolecadwalla, and @gladstein
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A profile of OBS Studio, an open source desktop app for live streaming and video recording with more advanced features than tools offered by Twitch and YouTube — OBS Studio offers customization and other advanced features that are easier to use than those in other free recording tools| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Cloudflare says it will drop Google's reCAPTCHA bot detection service, as Google plans to charge for its use, and replace it with Intuition Machines' hCAPTCHA — Cloudflare says its moving to hCaptcha, an alternative CAPTCHA service, more private than reCAPTCHA.
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The Cloudflare Blog, TechRadar.com, and Threatpost
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| Garrett Bridges / Android Police: |
Instagram has now added support for watching Live streams on the web for some users — Instagram Live has become one of the largest platforms for personal streaming, but broadcasts were only viewable from the mobile app, which can be a drag for longer streams.
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at the evolving safety precautions at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and how changes are driven primarily by worker pressure — Early Tuesday, March 24th, Barbara Chandler drove from her home in Queens to the Staten Island Amazon warehouse where she'd worked for three years.
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Ars Technica. Tweets: @lmatsakis, @nxthompson, @meaganmday, @vtitunik, @tiagodf, @knguyen, @joshdzieza, and @athenaforall
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches a site for COVID-19 testing providers to submit info on their testing locations, which, once reviewed, will be displayed on Apple Maps — Continuing Apple's efforts in helping fight the coronavirus, Apple Maps will soon display testing sites directly on the map.
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Digital Trends, MacRumors, Engadget, Phone Scoop, Mashable, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, MACお宝 …, USA Today, MacDailyNews, Wccftech, and AppleInsider
| Dylan Loh / Nikkei Asian Review: |
Singapore-based online retailers Shopee and Lazada, backed by Tencent and Alibaba respectively, got 60% of Southeast Asia's e-commerce traffic from Oct. to Dec. — Indonesia's online retailers fail to exploit home market advantage — SINGAPORE — China-backed e-commerce retailers Shopee …
Tweets: @nar
| Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
A third of India's 4M IT workers at firms like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro still go to the office daily to serve clients abroad amid lockdown — Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. — The world's abrupt slowing down in the past few weeks may have introduced millions …
Tweets: @passivefool and @aakar__patel
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