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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom β Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before Q2, as suppliers like lens manufacturer Genius Electronic Optical struggle to keep up amid COVID-19 β Apple's iPhone production will not significantly improve until the second quarter of 2020, according to a research note β¦
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO β Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher demos multiple ways of how to take over and repurpose allegedly state sponsored Mac malware β Former NSA hacker repackages in-the-wild Mac malware for his own use. β SAN FRANCISCOβMalware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors'.
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Wired, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Ubrigens, and Malwarebytes Labs
Tweets: @patrickwardle, @dangoodin001, @jamfsoftware, @ihackbanme, and @thomasareed
| BuzzFeed News: |
Several terabytes of stolen adult content from OnlyFans, a social media platform popular with sex workers, influencers, and porn actors, have leaked β A leak of several terabytes of pornographic images and videos from clip site OnlyFans went viral on Thursday.
Tweets: @allyo_reilly
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
How CEO Robert Swan is overhauling Intel's culture to improve the relationship between chip designers and manufacturing, and vastly speeding up product design β Robert Swan, who leads the world's biggest chip maker, is pushing his 110,000 employees to confront internal problems more openly.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @jonmasters
| New York Times: |
A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19 β A new system uses software to dictate quarantines β and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
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Tweets: @paulmozur, @leimer, @carlzha, @nytimes, @kashhill, @paulmozur, @puiwingtam, @alexsteffen, and @paulmozur
| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia's library is sparse because Google wasn't offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future β - Last November, Google finally launched a major gaming platform that was in development for years: Google Stadia.
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PC Games Insider, Kotaku, MSPoweruser, The Overspill, SlashGear, Game Rant, 9to5Google, VG247, and Android Central
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies β Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information β and which ones should be broken up| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Union of Concerned Scientists study: ride-hailing trips today result in an estimated 69% more climate pollution on average than the trips they displace β Union of Concerned Scientists recommends more electric cars and pooled trips β Uber and Lyft have weathered criticism about pollution β¦
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Union of Concerned Scientists, The Rideshare Guy Blog β¦, Quartz, VICE, Electrek, Geek.com, Wired, Engadget, and 20 Minutes into the Future
Tweets: @yitgordon, @iamcaps, @serebrisky, and @jen_keesmaat
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Thought Machine, which sells a platform for banking services sold via a B2B2C model, raises $83M Series B led by Draper Esprit β The world of consumer banking has seen a massive shift in the last ten years. Gone are the days where you could open an account, take out a loan β¦ | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Apple has been asking for proof of government license for iOS games in China since 2016, but did not enforce the policy, a loophole it is now closing β Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch's China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world.Sponsor Posts
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