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Apple is building an OS for health to become a chokepoint that all healthcare players, from providers to device makers, must integrate with to get distribution — Apple is building an operating system for health — This essay was co-authored by Rob Litterst and Nathan Baschez
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Google apologizes for a glitch that made a picture of Winston Churchill disappear from his Knowledge Graph entry — This content is likely not relevant anymore. Try searching or browse recent questions. — Get Link Report Abuse — Winston Churchill's Image Removed in UK/US Search Results
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GitHub CEO says company is working to replace the name “master” for the default version of source code repositories with a more neutral term — GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software.
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M — Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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| Stephen Harrison / Slate: |
“Neutral point of view” is a core principle of Wikipedia but racial justice protests are sparking debates among contributors on what neutrality actually means — Contributors are rethinking what Wikipedia's commitment to neutrality actually means.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
In leaked letters, House Judiciary asks Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook to say by Sunday whether their CEOs will testify in antitrust hearings in July — House antitrust investigators are pressing Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook to say by Sunday whether their CEOs will testify …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Vietnam-based Propzy, a full-stack real estate service with an online marketplace for listings, raises $25M Series A led by Gaw Capital, SoftBank Ventures Asia — Propzy, a Vietnam-based startup that guides consumers through the entire process of a real estate transaction … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft is aware of a bug affecting Windows 10 PCs with a printer connected via USB that renders the USB port unusable; patch is coming in a future OS update — Windows 10 users are reporting that they are unable to print using devices from multiple vendors after installing updates … | Robert P. Baird / New Yorker: |
How a philanthropic COVID-19 testing effort by Utah tech companies like Nomi Health and Domo became a commercial enterprise, despite questions about performance — At a White House briefing, on April 23rd, Mike Pence offered what he described as “encouraging news” about covid-19 testing.| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
At launch, Facebook News had very few stories on politics, many New York Times links, and coverage overlapped little with the most popular articles on Facebook — On June 10, the most popular stories across Facebook were all NASCAR banning Confederate flags and Blue Lives Matter (with a sprinkling of dead kids).| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Q&A with Chris Best, CEO of Substack: the company has seen revenue increase 60% and readership and writership double in the first three months of the pandemic — If it seems like everyone is launching a newsletter these days, well, you're not wrong. Chris Best, CEO and founder … | Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: |
Report: EOS platform, which raised $4B in ICO in 2018, has seen developer activity decline by 85% YoY; Ethereum has 80% of all smart contracts and dapps space — New research from Outlier Ventures lays out the landscape of blockchain development in the crypto space. And things aren't looking good for EOS.| reddit: |
Well known Apple leaker Fudge on four stages of Mac transition to ARM, which started with the T1 chip and may soon enter stage three with a new 12" MacBook — Today, I would like to further elaborate on that. … Apple is very likely going to switch to switch their CPU platform …
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