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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Companies are turning to intrusive monitoring of work-from-home employees, with always-on webcam rules, daily check-ins, and not-so-optional company happy hours — Always-on webcams, virtual “water coolers,” constant monitoring: Is the tech industry's new dream for remote work actually a nightmare?
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| The Economic Times: |
India's government has mandated all private sector employees to download its COVID-19 contact tracing app, following its mandate for all the public sector staff — Privacy activists said a diverse group of organisations and individuals had endorsed a representation to the Prime Minister's Office …
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| Sirin Kale / WIRED UK: |
An inside look at the dropshipping scene in Bali, where expats typically purchase items on AliExpress and have them shipped directly to buyers in the West — In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Kickstarter reaches agreement with its union on four months of severance pay, up to six months of healthcare coverage, and more for laid off employees — The workers voted to unionize in Feburary — The union for Kickstarter employees reached an agreement with management on Friday …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
CDC issues new criteria for evaluating contact tracing tools to be used by public health authorities, opening the door for Apple-Google approach — - A new document published by the Centers for Disease Control outlines what it sees as the critical features for digital contact tracing apps.
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Sources: the owners of Virgin Media and O2 are discussing a merger to create a new TV and mobile company that would challenge BT and Sky in the UK — Owners of telecoms giants set to team up and challenge major sector players — The owners of Virgin Media and O2 are in talks to create … | Justin Sherman / Wired: |
One year after the passage of Russia's domestic internet law, a look at the uneven past and uncertain future of Moscow's attempts to regulate the internet — The Kremlin's path toward censorship, surveillance, and repression has many more layers than meets the eye.
Tweets: @cyberstatecraft and @wired
| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
Apple has missed an opportunity by not introducing a product like Facebook Portal by combining different aspects of the Apple TV and HomePod with FaceTime — Apple TV should own the living room with FaceTime. And the Facebook Portal market with HomePod. And yet...
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @500ish, and @msliwinski
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Profile of Canada-based Draganfly, which is piloting “pandemic drones” that use machine vision and AI to track social distancing and monitor health vitals — Like the rest of the world, Canadian drone maker Draganfly has been anxiously watching the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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| Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: |
Google's Messages app, which isn't part of Google's apps package often pre-installed on phones by 3rd-party Android OEMs, passes 1B+ installs on the Play Store — Google's Messages app is packed with features, including a built-in markup tool, reminders, context-aware recommendations, a dark mode, RCS support, and a web interface.
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9to5Google and Neowin
| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
How researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling — The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years.
Tweets: @quantamagazine and @mslima
| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Federal judge rules FCC must give access to logs containing IP addresses behind public comments for the 2017 net neutrality vote, after repeated fraud claims — A Manhattan federal judge has ruled the Federal Communications Commission must provide two reporters access to server logs … Sponsor Posts
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