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Apple and Google announce a joint effort to introduce iOS and Android APIs in mid-May for opt-in Bluetooth-based COVID-19 contact tracing — A huge step forward in the fight against COVID-19 — Apple and Google announced a system for tracking the spread of the new coronavirus …
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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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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.| 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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| 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 …
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| Duncan Fyfe / VICE: |
A look back at Leisure Suit Larry and the claims that pirated versions of the game contributed to the spread of the Jerusalem DOS virus in the late 1980s — Leisure Suit Larry sprang from the womb a combed-over Casanova in white polyester. A court jester with a satyr's appetites … | New York Times: |
Experts say social distancing directives, likely to continue in some form after the COVID-19 crisis, could prompt various industries to accelerate automation — Broad unease about losing jobs to machines could dissipate as people focus on the benefits of minimizing close human contact.
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| Reuters: |
An Amazon Flex delivery driver shares his fears while working on the frontlines of the US coronavirus pandemic — DUBLIN, Calif. (Reuters) - Excelso Sabulao delivers groceries for Amazon.com Inc in California so he can help provide his parents an income. Now, with endless interactions … | Washington Post: |
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced experts to reframe the debate about screen time, at least temporarily, as devices become portals to employment and education — Go ahead, look at your phone and tablet. Much of it is necessary. Even the frivolous stuff. — We're on Zoom calls six hours per day.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Appeals court allows a proposed class action, which claims Facebook violates users' privacy rights by tracking them even when they are logged out, to proceed — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday revived nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc (FB.O) of violating users' privacy rights …
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Accellion, maker of an enterprise content firewall for consolidating and protecting sensitive third-party communications, raises $120M led by Bregal Sagemount — Accellion, Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of an enterprise content firewall that consolidates, controls …
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