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The internet tailwinds that propelled meteoric growth in Silicon Valley are stalling, which will accelerate zero-sum games between startups and incumbents — The Internet tailwinds that propelled Silicon Valley's meteoric growth for decades are stalling out. The ripple effects will jolt the tech industry.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
The COVID-19 outbreak is accelerating the adoption of autonomous sidewalk delivery robots in the US, as startups Starship and Kiwibot scramble to meet demand — “We saw that business double overnight,” startup says of UK grocery deliveries. — On the morning of March 30 …
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, on rearranged priorities due to the COVID-19 crisis, competition, his evolving strategy around M&A, and more — Locked in an uphill battle against AWS and Microsoft in infrastructure cloud computing, Google Cloud has made the adjustments needed … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Executives at construction startups discuss how they are automating parts of their work and what it will take to create fully autonomous construction projects — Built Robotics executives are fond of saying that their autonomous system for construction equipment, like dozers and excavators … | Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
A look at the origin of the conspiracy theory linking 5G to COVID-19, which went mainstream as influential people and celebrities started amplifying it in March — Damaged cabling and telecommunications equipment is pictured following a fire at a phone mast attached to a chimney in Huddersfield, northern England, on April 17.| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Germany says it will adopt a decentralized approach to digital contact tracing backed by Apple and Google, abandoning its home-grown alternative — BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to trace coronavirus infections …
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Two former Huawei employees, who had labor disputes with the company, say they were detained by China after discussing Huawei sales to Iran in a WeChat group — China arrested five former employees who had discussed the tech giant's Iranian sales in a chat group, raising questions about its government ties.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
While others like Disney and WarnerMedia change schedules to try to salvage part of the year, Netflix says it has enough content to not move its 2020 slate — The streamer's 2020 slate won't move around, exec says — The most pressing issue entertainment companies around the world …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
China-based Bitcoin miner maker Ebang files for a US IPO; Ebang had revenue of $109M in 2019, down from $319M in 2018 — Ebang International, one of the world's largest bitcoin mining machines manufacturers, has just formally filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S.| Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News: |
How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings on Yandex.Maps, holding Zoom conferences, more — Lockdown measures have stopped many protesters from going outside. So they're getting creative.
Tweets: @christopherjm, @kadiagoba, @buzzfeed, and @christopherjm
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Etsy says it is seeing Cyber Monday like demand in April for fabric-based face masks, as its stock price rises to all-time highs from a record low in March — Price climbs from record low to new high as 50,000 sellers turn to making coronavirus protection — At the end of March, Etsy …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
A look at the challenges workers of Silicon Valley giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google encounter working from home and how the companies are responding — Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber set new policies for employees working from home as tech culture clashes with family life.
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