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| 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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| 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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| 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: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @dflieb, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| 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.
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| 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.| 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.
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| 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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| 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 … | 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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NBC News. Tweets: @3r1ng, @briancaskeync, @wendysiegelman, @joyannreid, @domaintools, @miekeeoyang, and @briankrebs. Thanks:@petervogel
| 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.
Tweets: @garytaphouse, @popesaintvictor, @voxdotcom, @alibreland, @mattk, and @clockwerks
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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