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Sources: Apple is planning an iPad Pro-like design with flat edges and a smaller notch for iPhones, a smaller, cheaper HomePod, and Apple Tags for the fall — - iPhone's fall refresh to add 5G on as many as four new models — Smaller HomePod speaker, location tags for keys in development
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Amazon says it will put new online grocery delivery customers on a waitlist and prioritize existing customers amid surging demand — (Reuters) - Amazon will begin to put new grocery delivery customers on a wait list and curtail shopping hours at some Whole Foods stores to prioritize orders …
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Amazon says it will hire an additional 75,000 workers, on top of the 100,000 new positions it created last month, to deal with increased demand during COVID-19 — - Amazon is hiring 75,000 additional workers after it filled more than 100,000 positions in the last month.
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A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption — There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
NHSX will test an app for users to send a “yellow alert” if they self-diagnose with COVID-19 symptoms and a “red alert” if they test positive to recent contacts — The UK has confirmed plans for an app that will warn users if they have recently been in close proximity … | The Guardian: |
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As some YouTube advertising rates drop by as much as 50% while viewership rates are up, YouTubers say their pay has dropped dramatically — Advertising rates on the platform have dropped significantly during the coronavirus pandemic — Newspapers, websites, and TV channels have all been decimated by the coronavirus.| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Sources: after handing over to the new CEO, Bob Iger effectively returned to run Disney in March, as the pandemic decimated its most profitable businesses — The former C.E.O. thought he was riding into the sunset. Now he's reasserting control and reimagining Disney as a company with fewer employees and more thermometers.
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SoftBank forecasts a $7B net loss for the year ending in March, due to coronavirus and losses related to WeWork, and expects an operating loss of $12.5B — Struggling Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group on Monday forecast a $7-billion net loss for the year ended March due to the negative impact … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Meg Whitman says Quibi had 1.7M downloads in its first week and is accelerating plans to enable the app to cast to TVs due to the lockdown — - New mobile streaming service Quibi saw 1.7 million downloads in its first week, CEO Meg Whitman said on CNBC's “Squawk on the Street” Monday.| William J. Broad / New York Times: |
Investigation finds a decade-long health disinformation campaign by Russia, using social media and news outlets like RT, to sow confusion and hurt institutions — A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions …
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| Seb Joseph / Digiday: |
Esport sites are struggling to monetize the huge rise in viewership due to the drastically slowed ad market; Twitch had a record 1.1B viewing hours in March — Viewership of esports may be booming right now, but the drastically slowed ad market has made capitalizing on that audience difficult.
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| New York Times: |
Cam girl sites report a 37% to 69% rise in new model sign-ups over 2019 as stay-at-home orders around the world cause a spike in traffic — The online sex industry is surging during the coronavirus pandemic. For performers, though, what's good for business isn't necessarily good for them.| Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times: |
MyGate, an app used to access gated communities in India, is being refashioned to help police in Bangalore give passes to essential workers during lockdown — Platform is being used by Bangalore police to issue electronic passes for essential workers — An app used to manage visitors … Sponsor Posts
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