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Sources: UK's NHS has already begun developing a second contact tracing app in parallel, using Google and Apple's contact tracing APIs — NHS team that built first app is told to build another on Apple-Google system — The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning to add cursor support to Office for iPad by the fall — Microsoft is already working on latest iPadOS features — Microsoft is planning to update Office for iPad with support for Apple's latest iPadOS trackpad and mouse support.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Facebook says it plans to complete the rollout of its redesigned desktop website to all users over the “next few weeks” — After the better part of a year, Facebook has started rolling out its redesigned desktop website to all of its users. The company announced today it plans …
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| Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the symbiotic ties of anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists with mainstream YouTubers, as the platform tries to regulate misinformation — Covid-19 conspiracy theorists are still getting millions of views on YouTube, even as the platform cracks down on health misinformation.
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| TechCrunch: |
Target to acquire technology and assets of same-day delivery startup Deliv, which has raised a total of $80M in venture capital according to Crunchbase — Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract — Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber CEO says drivers should earn health-care benefits commensurate with the hours they work and Uber is prepared to create a system to pay for those benefits — - Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said drivers should earn health-care benefits commensurate with the hours they work.| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Dropbox beat estimates in Q1 with first-ever net income of $39.3M on sales of $455M, up 18% YoY; number of paying customers rose to 14.6M from 13.2M a year ago — Dropbox Inc. reported its first-ever net income, in a quarter when demand for cloud software was bolstered by a shift to working from home.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A researcher found NSO Group's contact tracing system, codenamed “Fleming”, unprotected on the Internet, NSO says system was a demo, hence not a security lapse — As countries work to reopen after weeks of lockdown, contact-tracing apps help to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus strain, COVID-19.
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
The pandemic is forcing tech companies to rethink open-floor plans as they prepare to reopen offices in the coming weeks and months — When the headquarters of Mission Bio reopens next week, employees will find many of the familiar perks they enjoyed before Silicon Valley went into lockdown have changed.
Tweets: @markmilian and @vscpr
| Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: |
Interview with Xbox Series X development lead Jason Ronald, on the console's power and price, its new boot screen, giving developers creative control, and more — Jason Ronald's job title is partner director of program management for the Xbox platform team, but what that somewhat robotic label boils …
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| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Samsung says it will launch a debit card in partnership with fintech startup SoFi, this summer — Samsung Pay will help you do more with your money this year. — Source: Android Central — What you need to know — To elevate the Samsung Pay experience, Samsung is partnering with SoFi to launch an “innovative” debit card.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
In filing, Clearview AI says it is canceling client accounts not associated with law enforcement or other government entities, amid mounting scrutiny — Clearview AI — the controversial face-tracking company known for scraping more than 3 billion photos from social media sites including Facebook …
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CNET, The Daily Dot, Boing Boing, IT Management, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, The Verge, and Mashable
Tweets: @rmac18, @rmac18, @carolineha_, @maggie_mcneill, @conmijente, and @evan_greer
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
HackerEarth survey: 32% of 16K+ experienced developers pick Google's Go as the programming language they want to learn, followed by Python at 24% — But they are over having meetings, and most of them working for large enterprise aren't happy with their job.
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Resources for technical …. Tweets: @jasonfalter, @petercoffee, @sachingupta006, and @campuscodi
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Zoom reaches agreement with NY AG over security concerns; Zoom agrees to maintain security protocols, including protections for students, admits no wrongdoing — - Zoom reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General Letitia James' office Thursday, closing the state's inquiry …
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