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Report: CDC, state and local authorities in the US have started using anonymized location data from mobile ads to help plan their response to the pandemic — The use of phone location tracking to keep tabs on COVID-19 is becoming increasingly common, and the US appears to be no exception.| Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
Microsoft says that there has been a 775% increase in use of its cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders — This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services.
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Tweets: @gossithedog, @trengriffin, @geo_walters, @brinkhoff_c, and @0xdabbad00
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Crowdsourced data from Candor shows 267 tech companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, while 111, like Zoom and Twitter, are hiring — The coronavirus has taken a toll on the workforce, and now you can see a list of who's hiring, freezing hires, laying off people …
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @startuppirategr, @hackerfantastic, @randfish, @dougall, @deantak, @nycsouthpaw, @deantak, @alex, @meghanemorris, @mdudas, and @furrier
| Financial Times: |
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet — New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services
Tweets: @martinsfp, @bakerluke, @amir, @jgriffiths, @madhumita29, @tonytassell, @iyervval, @hoofnagle, @hillmanje, and @financialtimes
| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google should add contact tracing functionality, similar to Singapore's TraceTogether app, in a privacy-respecting way to iOS and Android — After the shutdown, the testing and tracing. “Trace, test and treat is the mantra ... no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement” in South Korea.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
As the Authors Guild voices its opposition to Internet Archive's National Emergency Library, a look at the legal issues related to digital book lending — Massive online library project is venturing into uncharted legal waters. — One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures …
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Tweets: @internetarchive, @likaluca, @jimchines, and @authorsguild
| Reuters: |
Sources: production ramp-up for 5G iPhones at some of Apple's suppliers has been postponed; one key display supplier mulls lowering production targets by 17%+ — (Reuters) - As China reopens its economy after months of lockdown, Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) iPhone factories are largely up and running.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Zoom updates its iOS app to remove Facebook SDK after concerns were raised over Zoom's failure to disclose Facebook data sharing in privacy policy — On Friday video-conferencing software Zoom issued an update to its iOS app which stops it sending certain pieces of data to Facebook.
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Zoom Blog, The Verge, CNET, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, IT Management, Neowin, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, iMore, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @dhh, @mailzeu, @varcharr, @antoniocasilli, @dhh, @abebab, @manukumar, @_inside, @edbott, @brendaneich, and @keenetv
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
HQ Trivia, which laid off its entire staff and shut down in February, has been acquired by an undisclosed investor and is returning tonight with a new show — HQ Trivia, the live game-show app that shut down in February and laid off its entire staff, is unexpectedly returning tonight with a new show.
Tweets: @hqtrivia and @kerrymflynn
| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
UK's NHS says it is working with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and Faculty AI on a dashboard that shows the spread of the virus and NHS' ability to deal with it — The NHS has confirmed it is teaming up with leading tech firms to ensure critical medical equipment is available to the facilities …
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Technology in the NHS. Tweets: @nhsx, @rachelcoldicutt, @lisafox202, @danielkorski, @palantirtech, @jdr_tech, @benpatrickwill, @nmrperrin, @tomcopsymes, @rowlsmanthorpe, @jenit, @yvesalexandre, @paulias, @peterkwells, @ruskin147, and @halhod
| Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: |
AppBrain: Google Classroom, which wasn't in the top 100 most popular apps in the Play Store at the start of March, surpasses 50M installs, joins top 5 in the US — Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most schools and universities around the world have had to close.
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