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Sources: Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips by 2021 and is working on three Mac processors based on the 5nm A14 chip in the next iPhone — - New processors to be based on iPhone designs, replacing Intel — Transition will be gradual, start with less-powerful computers
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| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon employees often consulted sales info on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise, contrary to assertions to Congress — Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process — - Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple Music app is now available on Samsung's smart TV models from 2018 and later — Another Apple service comes to Samsung's sets, available now — Apple Music is getting an app on Samsung's most recent smart TVs, the two companies announced today. It's the latest expansion …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
FCC adopts a proposal that opens the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, freeing up more than 1,200MHz of additional bandwidth for next-gen Wi-Fi 6E devices — The unanimous decision opens 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for Wi-Fi 6E devices that are expected to begin arriving this year.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: EU commissioner says Tim Cook told him Apple and Google's contact tracing API will be available to developers from April 28 — The first version of Apple and Google's jointly developed, cross-platform contact tracing API should be available to developers as of next week …
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| Aaron Sankin / The Markup: |
Facebook removes “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people after report that the category contained more than 78M people — While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience"
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Zoom CEO says it hit more than 300M DAUs on April 21, up from about 200M on April 1 — Zoom Video Communications Inc. has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn't slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past three weeks.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Instacart says it plans to hire 250K more shoppers and extends availability of COVID-19 sick pay for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis — Instacart's aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more shoppers …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Research tracking tech company layoffs finds 29,463 employees were laid off from 292 companies between March 11 and April 21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Today, the U.S. Labor Department reported some sobering figures: The number of unemployment claims filed over the past five weeks surged to 26.4 million.
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| Julia Black / The Verge: |
Following layoffs at Bird, interviews with 16 former employees paint a picture of a workplace with high-turnover and an erratic, careless leadership — Inside the electric scooter startup with big workplace problems — Emma* was up late working on a complex analysis from her laptop in bed for Bird.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Jeff Bezos, who sources say only worked on projects that posed a major risk to the company, has taken an active leadership role at Amazon amid COVID-19 — The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, an integration service for developers to easily transfer data between AWS and SaaS applications — AWS today launched Amazon AppFlow, a new integration service that makes it easier for developers to transfer data between AWS and SaaS applications like Google Analytics …
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| BBC: |
Israel's parliament blocks extension of emergency measures to use phone location data to enforce quarantine past this week — The use by Israel's police of mobile-phone location data to enforce quarantine has been halted because of privacy concerns. — The government had approved the use … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Boston Dynamics says its quadruped Spot robot is in use at one Boston hospital for remote triage of patients suspected of having COVID-19 — The company has ambitious plans for using robots to assist COVID-19 treatment — Robot maker Boston Dynamics announced on Thursday that its quadruped Spot robot …
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| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Bakkt CEO Mike Blandina is stepping down 4 months after taking the role and will be replaced by David Clifton, VP of M&A and integration at parent company ICE — Bakkt CEO Mike Blandina is stepping down from his role, an individual familiar with the situation told CoinDesk.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
France is hypocritical to ask Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections for a French contact-tracing app, while being such a vocal critic of big tech — We keep trying to explain to people that privacy is always about trade-offs, and arguing for privacy laws that protect “privacy” …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe says it now offers card issuing services directly to businesses and launches an AI-powered “revenue optimization” tool for transaction approvals — At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach.| BBC: |
UK's Communication Workers Union says it's had reports of about 120 cases of abuse, including murder threats, directed at engineers believed to be working on 5G — Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nextdoor and Walmart launch Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a feature in groups that lets vulnerable users get shopping help from neighbors planning a Walmart trip — Neighborhood social network Nextdoor and Walmart are teaming up today to launch a new “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” …
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| Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter: |
SuperData: worldwide digital video game spending reached a record $10B total in March, up 11% YoY, with $5.7B for mobile games, up 15% YoY — Console, PC and mobile games also saw significant revenue bumps amid the coronavirus lockdown. — Digital video game spending hit a record high …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK competition authority approves the $7.6B Just Eat-Takeaway merger, as the pair raises $756M in the form of new shares and convertible bonds — On the heels of Amazon getting approval from the competition authority to proceed with an investment leading a $575 million round … Sponsor Posts
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