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Sources: Apple to roll out 12-month interest-free Apple Card payment plans for iPads, Macs, more and 6-month plans for AirPods, Apple TV, and HomePod — - Company gearing up for monthly installments for Apple Card — Similar feature for iPhone purchases already available on card
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
More than 140 scientists funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urge Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider Facebook's policies on misinformation and incendiary language — More than 140 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative urged Mark Zuckerberg to enforce stricter policies around …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Three Amazon workers file lawsuit alleging that Amazon has failed to adequately protect workers from COVID-19 by not following CDC's contact tracing guidelines — - A lawsuit filed by three Amazon workers calls into question the company's contact tracing efforts.
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| Renee Dudley / ProPublica: |
Review finds Amazon is using the top-left slot of its search results pages, a premier bid slot for brands, to promote its private labels during the pandemic — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Overall, remote learning this spring didn't work: schools disagree on fair student assessment, students lack equal access to technology, teaching got harder — The pandemic forced schools into a crash course in online education. Problems piled up quickly. ‘I find it hectic and stressful’| Fahmida Y Rashid / IEEE Spectrum: |
Q&A: web cryptography pioneers Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk on recent advances in authentication tech, and what the future could look like — Martin Hellman, Taher Elgamal, and Tom Jermoluk were instrumental in shaping how the Internet works. Now they're looking at what's next for web security.
Tweets: @ieeespectrum
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Connected learning platform Chegg has acquired Mathway, an automated learning app that helps students understand and solve math problems, for $100M in cash — The $100 million deal gives Chegg access to Mathway subscribers in about 100 countries. — Chegg, a leading direct-to-student learning platform …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance Jio Platforms says Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will invest $750M for a 1.16% stake in the company — Mukesh Ambani has courted the seventh major investor for his telecommunications business in just as many weeks. — On Sunday, Reliance Jio Platforms said it will sell …
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| Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: |
Interviews with Huawei staff and a review of internal documents shed light on Huawei's efforts to reorganize and aggressively respond to the growing US pressure — Internal communications show how Chinese telecom giant pivoted to counter Washington's charges with lawsuits, reorganization; ‘the company has entered a state of war’| Jared Council / Wall Street Journal: |
Black tech execs hope the current attention on racial disparities will help diversify tech workers, as black people account for only 7.8% of core US IT workers — Despite yearslong efforts by companies to diversify their tech workforces, black people account for less than 8% of core IT workers in the U.S.
Tweets: @grattongirl, @wsj, and @shatter242
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook publishes new recommendations for group admins, suggests adding people of color as moderators to help navigate conversations about the BLM movement — To help them navigate the Black Lives Matter movement — Facebook published new recommendations for group admins yesterday evening … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Zoom consultant Alex Stamos and experts say offering end-to-end encryption, which needs user authentication, only to paying customers is a reasonable compromise — Critics say everyone deserves it. Others say safety should be factored in, too. — If you've waded into Twitter timelines …
Tweets: @ncweaver, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, and @alexstamos
| Tanya Basu / MIT Technology Review: |
Google Docs is a key tool for organizing protests, as activists anonymously edit public lists of funds, charities, books on racism, and letter-writing templates — Facebook and Twitter might have the bells and whistles, but the word processing doc's simplicity and accessibility have made it a winning tool.
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