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Tim Cook says Apple has now sourced 20M+ masks for healthcare workers from its supply chain and has designed and will ship face shields at a rate of 1M/week — Tim Cook is back with another update on Apple's ongoing efforts to help healthcare professionals amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Quibi app review: works reliably, auto-flips between landscape and portrait, but no tablet-optimized mode, no family member profiles, and lacks a TV experience — A mobile-only video app was always going to be a hard sell — After months of publicity, Quibi — the mobile phone app that's centered …
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| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Jeffery Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's Quibi short-video streaming service launches with $1.8B in funding amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman had to cancel a starry Hollywood party for their short-video platform because of the virus. But Quibi is still going live.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
YouTube says it will remove content spreading conspiracy theories linking 5G and coronavirus, but will leave content that is simply conspiratorial about 5G — Decision comes as four more phone masts are attacked — Play Video — YouTube will reduce the amount of content spreading conspiracy theories …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: excellent keyboard, beautiful display, thin and light design, and fast performance, but poor battery life and expensive — That 4K screen comes at a major cost. — 6m ago — Google has been selling expensive, high-end Chromebooks for years now.
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PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computing machine with 1M qubits, raises $215M from Microsoft, Playground Global, and others — The technology industry has spent decades trying to puzzle out the basis of a quantum computer. Such a machine, powered not by the simple … | Gareth Corfield / The Register: |
UK High Court judge says Google will either need to let an SEO expert inspect its ranking algorithms or withdraw evidence from its long-running competition case — Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case — Google must either show its “crown jewels” to a man it described …
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Q&A with Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and ex-head of Microsoft Office products, on his present role as VP and GM of G Suite, the future of email, and more — Javier Soltero is six or so months into his job at Google as vice president and GM of G Suite, and he readily admits he still … | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz / New York Times: |
Researchers: Google searches about symptoms, like loss of smell, can help find places where positive COVID-19 cases were missed and reveal undetected symptoms — They can also reveal symptoms that at first went undetected. I may have found a new one. — Mr. Stephens-Davidowitz is the author of … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world's largest CDNs and cloud hosts was redirected through Russia's telco Rostelecom in likely BGP hijacking attacks — Rostelecom involved in BGP hijacking incident this week impacting more than 200 CDNs and cloud providers.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Yapily, which offers an API to let enterprises connect to banks offering open banking services, raises $13M Series A led by Lakestar — Yapily, one of a number of fintech startups that offer an opening banking API to let enterprises, such as financial service providers and merchants … | Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Interview with Atlassian co-CEO Scott Farquhar on bug-tracking tool Jira, the ongoing evolution of enterprise software, and future of the company — Enterprise software development has changed a lot over the last two decades, from expensive server farms to the explosion of web and mobile applications to the rise of the cloud.| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
After being put on the US trade blacklist, sources say Megvii Technology's revenue grew just 2.7% in H2 2019 after more than tripling sales in the H1 2019 — - Alibaba-backed Megvii's revenue growth slowed in second half — Megvii becomes a high-profile victim of White House's campaign
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