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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Both Defcon and Black Hat, originally scheduled for August, have cancelled in-person events, instead opting to host conferences online — For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off. — For years, a simple and elegant inside joke has permeated Defcon, the influential hacking conference.
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| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to begin reopening US stores next week using safety measures like temperature checks, starting with some stores in Idaho, S. Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska — Apple is preparing to reopen a select number of retail stores in the United States next week.
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Lime's new CEO Wayne Ting, who replaces co-founder Brad Bao, talks about Uber-led $170M investment, consolidating assets from Jump, and weathering the pandemic — The funding deal announced Thursday “reaffirms that not only Uber but major investors believe in this industry and believe in Lime,” Wayne Ting said.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds a kid-friendly “family mode” to Duo and says Duo on the web will soon support group calls, starting as a preview on Chrome — Work and personal video calling are surging in light of COVID-19, with Google announcing a handful of new Duo features last month to support that demand.
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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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| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Ex-Google engineer James Damore and three other men who alleged hiring bias ask the court to dismiss their lawsuit after reaching an agreement with the company — A lawsuit that made a big bang in Silicon Valley two years ago with allegations of mistreatment of politically conservative tech workers came to a quiet end this week.| Wired: |
States like NY, CA, MA, and cities like Baltimore and SF are skeptical about tech-based contact tracing, instead hiring thousands for manual contact tracing — Silicon Valley companies have proposed automating the arduous task of identifying people potentially exposed to Covid-19. They're finding few takers.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at “aimbot” and “wallhack” cheating going on in PC games like CoD: Warzone and Destiny 2, as game developers announce big updates to respond to cheating — If you've ever played a PC game that has a competitive element, you've probably played against a cheater.
Tweets: @tomwarren
| Bloomberg: |
Google says it expects most of its staff to work from home until 2021 — Elon Musk wants people to return to work. Google and Facebook Inc. have another message for their staff: get ready to stay home for all of 2020. — Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive officer …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
A look at TikTok's emerging meme culture, as multi-platform meme brands and independent Instagram meme influencers begin investing heavily in the platform — Bombarding a platform known for dance crazes and skits is strategic, and potentially very lucrative.
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| Bloomberg: |
Kingsoft Cloud, a China-based cloud service provider, closed up 40% on its trading debut on Nasdaq, after raising $510M in its IPO, and is now valued at $4.77B — - Beijing-based cloud computing company raised $510 million — IPO is the biggest by a Chinese company in U.S. this year| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Surface Go 2 review: small improvements over original with larger screen and faster CPU, but $400 entry model is lacking in power and upgrades are expensive — Judging the Surface Go 2 really comes down to your expectations. Can you live with slow performance to get a well-designed $400 tablet PC (not including a keyboard)?
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