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ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital — Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.
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Apple reports Q2 revenue of $58.3B, up 1% YoY, of which $44.9B came from products, $13.35B from services, and net income of $11.25B — Total Revenue Grows, Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $13.3 Billion — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 second quarter ended March 28, 2020.
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| Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet: |
IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever — Shipment volumes suffered its largest year over year decline in the first quarter. — The latest data from International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that as the world grapples …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Reddit has disabled its chat room feature, Start Chatting, a day after launch due to “several errors” in rollout and moderators' concerns over lack of control — The company says the rollout had several errors — Remember how Reddit announced just yesterday that it was introducing built-in subreddit chat rooms?
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| New York Times: |
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have declined to remove Trump's comments on UV and disinfectants curing COVID-19, despite commitments to removing misinformation — Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have declined to remove the president's statements about unproven coronavirus treatments.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers say Xiaomi phones are tracking usage habits and browsing data even in incognito mode — “It's a backdoor with phone functionality,” quips Gabi Cirlig about his new Xiaomi phone. He's only half-joking. — Cirlig is speaking with Forbes after discovering that his Redmi Note 8 smartphone … | Joseph Cox / VICE: |
The UN's social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals — This week a division of the United Nations announced its new social distancing app designed to help alert people when they get too close …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart is piloting a 2-hour “Express” grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee, plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ “personal shoppers” — Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
As online exam proctoring services like Examity gain widespread adoption amid the pandemic, students are finding them invasive with privacy and security issues — As schools go remote, so do tests and so does surveillance — The stranger on the Zoom call appeared to be sitting in a tent.
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| Benjamin Romano / The Seattle Times: |
Amazon tells its Seattle and Bellevue employees already working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2” — Amazon told its corporate employees working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2 … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Figma CEO Dylan Field has enjoyed watching his design software take off in bizarre ways in recent weeks.
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| Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review: |
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted — Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy's Shorenstein Center, where I am the director …
Tweets: @aaronwall, @thedailybeast, @wrklsshrd, @utischool, @mantzarlis, and @xor
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's bet on Xbox Game Pass seems to be paying off, as it hits 10M subscribers, far ahead of the 5M and 1M subscribers EA and Sony announced last year — Microsoft takes an early lead in the battle for the Netflix of video games — Microsoft now has 10 million subscribers …
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| Prafulla Dhariwal / OpenAI: |
OpenAI announces Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles — We're introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles.
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