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Sources: IBM is laying off thousands of workers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, and New York — - Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession — International Business Machines Corp. cut … | Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
US district court rules that turning on a phone to view its lockscreen without unlocking it qualifies as searching the phone and would generally need a warrant — Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. — Smartphones are a rich data trove not only for marketers but also for law enforcement.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on working from home, antitrust, collaborating with Apple and others, how Alphabet's holding company model held up, and more — In an interview, the Google and Alphabet CEO discusses working from home, weathering antitrust probes, and how the company needs to do a better job on diversity.
Tweets: @thekenyeung, @oliviasolon, @sorayadarabi, @thekenyeung, @thekenyeung, @thekenyeung, and @louisgray. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Bloomberg: |
A look at China's plan to invest an estimated $1.4T over six years to build out 5G, surveillance infrastructure, and AI, relying heavily on Chinese companies — - Latest infrastructure blueprint aims to spur virus-hit economy — Plan helps Beijing swap foreign brands for national champions
Tweets: @johnhemmings2, @khoelzle, and @lisaabramowicz1
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources: a version of iOS 14 dated Dec. 2019, likely obtained via a development iPhone 11, has been circulating among researchers and jailbreakers for months — Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone's next operating system, since at least February, Motherboard has learned.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
With Spotify owning shows, a podcast player, tools to make new shows, and selling ads, the podcasting world is now divided into open and closed ecosystems — The Joe Rogan deal makes the company's big ambitions known — In what's likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: while Amazon has pushed its annual Prime Day to September, the company is preparing for an earlier “Summer Sale” to let brands sell excess inventory — After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.
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| Bloomberg: |
Interviews shed light on the strained relationship between Masayoshi Son and Vision Fund leader Rajeev Misra, who some say has created a divisive workplace — Son's support tested after $18 billion in writedowns, clashes with internal rivals — In early March, before the coronavirus pandemic triggered …
Tweets: @bradstone, @menakadoshi, @economictimes, @andresbarreto, and @bloombergquint. Thanks:@tsgiles
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Audible is in talks to acquire celebrity podcasts and considers selling original shows individually; Amazon Music is also preparing to add podcasts — Under growing pressure from Spotify, the e-commerce giant is looking to spend big in podcast land| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Report: the official COVID-19 contact tracing app for North Dakota is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google — The official COVID-19 contact tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
The presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not have a top adviser for tech policy and lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his Democratic predecessors — The former VP and presumptive Democratic nominee lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his predecessors.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
States Title, a house title insurance and closing startup that claims to use AI to reduce the time of a closing from around 40 days to 20, raises $123M Series C — Buying a home is one of the biggest, and most expensive, decisions in a person's life. Over the past year or so … | Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook says it will let many of its 50,000 employees work from home permanently, “aggressively” open up remote hiring, first in the USA, then elsewhere — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the social media giant will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees …
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| David Jagneaux / UploadVR: |
Facebook says its $1,000 enterprise-edition Oculus Quest, which sells as part of the Oculus for Business platform, is now available for companies to purchase — Today Facebook announced that its enterprise-edition Oculus Quest that sells for $1,000 as part of its Oculus for Business platform …
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