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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Filing: Lyft is laying off 17% of its workforce, or 982 staff, and will furlough 288 employees alongside salary cuts ranging from 10% to 30% for all staff — Lyft is laying off 982 employees and furloughing an additional 288, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
How a handful of employees at Apple quickly pushed forward the development of a contract tracing API and collaboration with Google in less than a month — - Apple and Google announced a partnership to bring contact tracing to smartphones on April 10th. Their software toolkit will be released on Friday.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google release the first version of their contact tracing API, referred to as exposure notification API, in respective developer builds — Apple and Google have released the very first version of their exposure notification API, which they previously called the contact tracing API .
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Meet is now free for everyone with a Google account, for meetings of up to 100 people, which are not time limited until September 30 — Can it stem Zoom's meteoric growth? — Google is opening up its Google Meet videoconferencing service to anybody who wants to use it …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify beats with Q1 revenue of €1.8B and net income of €1M; MAUs rose 31% YoY to 286M, premium users rose 31% to 130M, and ad-supported MAUs rose 32% to 163M — The coronavirus may be decimating some corners of the economy, but the impact on the digital music …
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| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Spotify says TV and game console usage is up by 50% due to the pandemic, with increased consumption of wellness podcasts and searches for terms like “chill” — New York (CNN Business)The coronavirus pandemic has upended consumers' lives and behavior, including the way they stream music.| Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon bought thermal cameras to check worker temperatures from Dahua, a Chinese company blacklisted by the US over alleged help monitoring minorities — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during …
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Alphabet reports revenue of $41.2B, up 13% YoY, net income of $6.8B, up from $6.7B YoY, Other Bets operating loss grew to $1.1B; headcount grew to 123K, up ~20K — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 28, 2020 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Facebook announces Blender, an open source chatbot aimed at AI research that it says has been trained on 9.4B parameters — It could help tomorrow's AI converse more naturally with people — The virtual assistants that inhabit our smartphones are helpful, sure, but they're not going to pass the Turing test any time soon.
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q1 earnings with total revenue ~$45.4B, up 5.6% YoY, and operating profit of ~$5.2B, up 3% YoY, as chip demand was solid amid COVID-19 crisis — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said its operating profit rose 3% in the January to March period …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter updates its API platform to make it easier for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 — Twitter is making its possible for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 in real-time with an update to its API platform.
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| Washington Post: |
Survey of US adults finds skepticism about Apple and Google's COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, with smartphone owners split 50-50 on whether they would use it — Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert apps under development by Google and Apple …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Flexera State of the Cloud 2020 report: multicloud is becoming the primary architecture choice; 65% of organizations are using Docker, 58% are using Kubernetes — Flexera's State of the Cloud 2020 report highlights how multicloud is becoming a default strategy for many enterprises …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: Uber executives discuss cutting ~20% of its 27,000 headcount in the coming weeks; company veteran CTO Thuan Pham has resigned — Executives at Uber are discussing plans to cut around 20% of the company's employees, as it copes with a sharp decline in its ride-hailing business due …
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| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
Roc Nation files copyright claim over deepfake YouTube videos that use AI to impersonate Jay-Z's voice, raising new copyright and fair use questions — On Friday, I linked to several videos by Vocal Synthesis, a new YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes — AI-generated speech …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Mojo Vision, which is building AR contact lenses, raises $51M Series B-1 led by NEA, bringing its total raised to $159M+ — There's little debate that, as tech pushes further into our lives, we'll soon be using augmented reality glasses that overlay computer images on the real world.| Nick Corasaniti / New York Times: |
Profile of Acronym, a progressive nonprofit that, with the help of ex-Facebook staffer James Barnes, is looking to use Trump's online ad tactics against him — A former Facebook employee is using a tool he employed to help President Trump win to conduct tests for a progressive group …
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @nytpolitics, @chillywillers, @conorjrogers, @anthony, @fishbones2017, @davidplouffe, and @deaneckles
| Lauren Hepler / Protocol: |
How companies like Proxy and Openpath are recalibrating their building automation offerings for offices, factories, and warehouses as COVID-19 lockdowns lift — They say access isn't everything. But when you go back to work after COVID-19, all doors may open via a mobile app … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Zuckerberg more actively in charge of Facebook after five departures from board of directors since 2019, as he attempts to consolidate decision-making — The 35-year-old tycoon has recast the company's board of directors and sought a high-profile role for the social-media giant in the Covid-19 pandemic
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| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Deliverect, a Belgian startup developing online food delivery management software for restaurants, raises €16.25M Series B led by OMERS Ventures — Today Deliverect, a Belgian startup streamlining the restaurant industry with its online food delivery management software … | Ryan Kovatch / 9to5Google: |
Google is shutting down Shoelace, a hyper-local social networking app it had launched in New York City in July 2019 — In July 2019, Google's experimental project incubator Area 120 launched a new local meetup app that would connect users in New York City.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, TechSpot, The Next Web, Engadget, and Android Police. Tweets: @counternotions
| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
LG's smartphone division reports Q1 sales of $843.9M, down 34% YoY, operating loss of $201M, says it was impacted by “supply disruptions from Chinese partners” — The company's smartphone sales decreased by 34% in the first quarter of the year. — What you need to know| Nabila Ahmed / Bloomberg: |
Stash, a money management and investment service aimed at younger, less affluent Americans, raises $112M led by LendingTree at a $800M+ valuation — - Latest funding round for financial startup totals $112 million — Proceeds to be used to grow customers, brand awareness
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce details its AI Economist, built in partnership with a Harvard economist, that helps design policies by modeling the impact of different tax rates — Salesforce today announced the AI Economist, a research environment designed to elucidate how economic design might be improved …
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