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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google release the first version of their contact tracing API, referred to as exposure notification API, in respective developer builds — Apple and Google have released the very first version of their exposure notification API, which they previously called the contact tracing API .
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| Washington Post: |
Survey of US adults finds skepticism about Apple and Google's COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, with smartphone owners split 50-50 on whether they would use it — Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert apps under development by Google and Apple … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
How a handful of employees at Apple quickly pushed forward the development of a contract tracing API and collaboration with Google in less than a month — - Apple and Google announced a partnership to bring contact tracing to smartphones on April 10th. Their software toolkit will be released on Friday.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Filing: Lyft is laying off 17% of its workforce, or 982 staff, and will furlough 288 employees alongside salary cuts ranging from 10% to 30% for all staff — Lyft is laying off 982 employees and furloughing an additional 288, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Meet is now free for everyone with a Google account, for meetings of up to 100 people, which are not time limited until September 30 — Can it stem Zoom's meteoric growth? — Google is opening up its Google Meet videoconferencing service to anybody who wants to use it …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify beats with Q1 revenue of €1.8B and net income of €1M; MAUs rose 31% YoY to 286M, premium users rose 31% to 130M, and ad-supported MAUs rose 32% to 163M — The coronavirus may be decimating some corners of the economy, but the impact on the digital music …
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| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Spotify says TV and game console usage is up by 50% due to the pandemic, with increased consumption of wellness podcasts and searches for terms like “chill” — New York (CNN Business)The coronavirus pandemic has upended consumers' lives and behavior, including the way they stream music.| Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon bought thermal cameras to check worker temperatures from Dahua, a Chinese company blacklisted by the US over alleged help monitoring minorities — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter updates its API platform to make it easier for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 — Twitter is making it possible for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 in real time with an update to its API platform.| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Facebook announces Blender, an open source chatbot aimed at AI research that it says has been trained on 9.4B parameters — It could help tomorrow's AI converse more naturally with people — The virtual assistants that inhabit our smartphones are helpful, sure, but they're not going to pass the Turing test any time soon.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Mojo Vision, which is building AR contact lenses, raises $51M Series B-1 led by NEA, bringing its total raised to $159M+ — There's little debate that, as tech pushes further into our lives, we'll soon be using augmented reality glasses that overlay computer images on the real world.
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TechCrunch, Mojo Vision, Light Reading, Silicon Valley Business …, FinSMEs, and IEEE. Thanks:@iansherr
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Alphabet reports YouTube Q1 ad revenue of $4.04B, up 33% YoY, but says ad sales fell significantly in March — NewFronts 2020: YouTube, Hulu Confirmed for Reshuffled June Marketing Series, Facebook Expected to Join — YouTube generated $4.04 billion in ad revenue for the first quarter of 2020, up 33% from the year prior.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, Android Central, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Silicon Republic, South China Morning Post, AdExchanger, MarketWatch, NBC Bay Area, and Alphabet. Thanks:@mnickelsburg
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Flexera State of the Cloud 2020 report: multicloud is becoming the primary architecture choice; 65% of organizations are using Docker, 58% are using Kubernetes — Flexera's State of the Cloud 2020 report highlights how multicloud is becoming a default strategy for many enterprises …
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q1 earnings with total revenue ~$45.4B, up 5.6% YoY, and operating profit of ~$5.2B, up 3% YoY, as chip demand was solid amid COVID-19 crisis — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said its operating profit rose 3% in the January to March period …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Pittsburgh-based Niche, a school search service for prospective US students, raises $35M Series C led by Radian Capital, bringing total raised to ~$44M — Niche, a school search platform, announced this morning it has raised a $35 million Series C round of funding led by Radian Capital.| Andy Baio / Waxy.org: |
Roc Nation files copyright claim over deepfake YouTube videos that use AI to impersonate Jay-Z's voice, raising new copyright and fair use questions — On Friday, I linked to several videos by Vocal Synthesis, a new YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes — AI-generated speech …
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Techdirt, The Verge, Plagiarism Today, Music Ally, Input, and Reclaim The Net
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| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
LG's smartphone division reports Q1 sales of $843.9M, down 34% YoY, operating loss of $201M, says it was impacted by “supply disruptions from Chinese partners” — The company's smartphone sales decreased by 34% in the first quarter of the year. — What you need to know| Doug Palmer / Politico: |
Trump administration lists Amazon's websites in Canada, UK, Germany, France, and India as “notorious markets” for counterfeit goods; the move carries no penalty — The Trump administration Wednesday included Amazon's foreign websites in Canada, the U.K., Germany …
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| Nick Corasaniti / New York Times: |
Profile of Acronym, a progressive nonprofit that, with the help of ex-Facebook staffer James Barnes, is looking to use Trump's online ad tactics against him — A former Facebook employee is using a tool he employed to help President Trump win to conduct tests for a progressive group …
Tweets: @matthewstoller, @nytpolitics, @conorjrogers, @anthony, @davidplouffe, @deaneckles, @chillywillers, and @fishbones2017
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce details its AI Economist, built in partnership with a Harvard economist, that helps design policies by modeling the impact of different tax rates — Salesforce today announced the AI Economist, a research environment designed to elucidate how economic design might be improved … | Samantha Cole / VICE: |
USPTO says AI cannot be an inventor, as only “natural persons” can receive a patent, after two patents filed in 2019 had an AI system credited as inventor — On Monday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a decision that claims artificial intelligences cannot be inventors.| Lauren Hepler / Protocol: |
How companies like Proxy and Openpath are recalibrating their building automation offerings for offices, factories, and warehouses as COVID-19 lockdowns lift — They say access isn't everything. But when you go back to work after COVID-19, all doors may open via a mobile app … | Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Deliverect, a Belgian startup developing online food delivery management software for restaurants, raises €16.25M Series B led by OMERS Ventures — Today Deliverect, a Belgian startup streamlining the restaurant industry with its online food delivery management software … | Matthew Moore / The Times: |
Facebook poaches Tony Close, director of content standards at Ofcom, as director of content regulation; Ofcom is preparing to regulate social media companies — A senior official at the watchdog preparing to regulate social media companies has been poached by Facebook to help it respond to the curbs.
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