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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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| John Luttig / luttig's learnings: |
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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| Nathan Baschez / Divinations: |
A deep dive into Clubhouse, an invite-only audio-based social network, how it might evolve, and its long-term potential as a business — About a month ago I got a DM inviting me to “a community for casual, drop-in audio conversations.” So I downloaded the app, created a profile, and was greeted by a blank screen.
Tweets: @morlockp, @scobleizer, @bhc3, @martinsfp, @danshipper, @nbashaw, @stefanobernardi, @smalera, @nbashaw, @nbashaw, and @sameer_singh17
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE — He's stepped up to lead the war against COVID-19 — “I didn't know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the business.”
Tweets: @thogge, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @dflieb, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Research: ~150 new domain registrations starting with “reopen”, and many ending with US place names, are tied to state GOP orgs and other conservative groups — The past few weeks have seen a large number of new domain registrations beginning with the word “reopen” and ending with U.S. city or state names.
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Tweets: @3r1ng, @briancaskeync, @wendysiegelman, @joyannreid, @domaintools, @miekeeoyang, and @briankrebs. Thanks:@petervogel
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app's old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more — Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they're so difficult to detect.
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| 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.
Tweets: @popesaintvictor, @voxdotcom, @alibreland, @garytaphouse, @mattk, and @clockwerks
| Financial Times: |
US startups and big companies like PwC are making contact tracing apps to track staff in reopened facilities, some incorporating data from Bluetooth wearables — Tools could track movement of office workers to within a few centimetres — Companies including PwC, the global consultancy …
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Protocol. Tweets: @sedyst, @went1955, @hypervisible, @lukolejnik, @chrissyfarr, @seanmmcdonald, @carnage4life, and @privacymatters
| Renee Dudley / ProPublica: |
Afraid of losing rankings in Amazon search, some suppliers are redirecting a “lion's share” of their products to Amazon, and whatever is left to other retailers — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
Tweets: @richduszak, @kristenobacter, @mims, @kslcom, @charlesornstein, and @carnage4life
| Noah Manskar / New York Post: |
DraftKings closed up 10% on Friday, its first day of trading after its $3.3B merger with sports betting platform SBTech and Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corp. — DraftKings threw a Hail Mary of an IPO and scored a touchdown. — The fantasy sports firm's stock price surged …
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Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Financial Times, New York Daily News, TheStreet, Bloomberg, Law360, CNN, and Variety. Tweets: @hkanji
| 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 … | Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
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