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Sources: UK's NHS has already begun developing a second contact tracing app in parallel, using technology provided by Google and Apple — NHS team that built first app is told to build another on Apple-Google system — The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace …
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| Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the symbiotic ties of anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists with mainstream YouTubers, as the platform tries to regulate misinformation — Covid-19 conspiracy theorists are still getting millions of views on YouTube, even as the platform cracks down on health misinformation.| TechCrunch: |
Target to acquire technology and assets of same-day delivery startup Deliv, which has raised a total of $80M in venture capital according to Crunchbase — Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning to add cursor support to Office for iPad by the fall — Microsoft is already working on latest iPadOS features — Microsoft is planning to update Office for iPad with support for Apple's latest iPadOS trackpad and mouse support.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract — Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues.
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| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Samsung says it will launch a debit card in partnership with fintech startup SoFi, this summer — Samsung Pay will help you do more with your money this year. — Source: Android Central — What you need to know — To elevate the Samsung Pay experience, Samsung is partnering with SoFi to launch an “innovative” debit card.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
In filing, Clearview AI says it is canceling client accounts not associated with law enforcement or other government entities, amid mounting scrutiny — Clearview AI — the controversial face-tracking company known for scraping more than 3 billion photos from social media sites including Facebook …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A researcher found NSO Group's contact tracing system, codenamed “Fleming”, unprotected on the Internet, NSO says system was a demo, hence not a security lapse — As countries work to reopen after weeks of lockdown, contact-tracing apps help to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus strain, COVID-19.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @malwarejake, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Dropbox beat estimates in Q1 with first-ever net income of $39.3M on sales of $455M, up 18% YoY; number of paying customers rose to 14.6M from 13.2M a year ago — Dropbox Inc. reported its first-ever net income, in a quarter when demand for cloud software was bolstered by a shift to working from home.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Zoom reaches agreement with NY AG over security concerns; Zoom agrees to maintain security protocols, including protections for students, admits no wrongdoing — - Zoom reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General Letitia James' office Thursday, closing the state's inquiry …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Read Along, its Android app that uses AI to help children read via verbal and visual feedback in nine languages, from India to 180+ countries — Google today launched Read Along, an Android app that taps AI and machine learning to help children learn to read by providing verbal and visual feedback.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
HackerEarth survey: 32% of 16K+ experienced developers pick Google's Go as the programming language they want to learn, followed by Python at 24% — But they are over having meetings, and most of them working for large enterprise aren't happy with their job.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google brings all of its messaging and communication apps under a single team to be led by Javier Soltero, who is VP and GM of G Suite — Integration isn't on the roadmap, but coherency may be — In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners says it will invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio Platforms, which would give it a 2.32% stake, valuing the telco firm at $65B — Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms …
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
The pandemic is forcing tech companies to rethink open-floor plans as they prepare to reopen offices in the coming weeks and months — When the headquarters of Mission Bio reopens next week, employees will find many of the familiar perks they enjoyed before Silicon Valley went into lockdown have changed.
Tweets: @markmilian and @vscpr
| Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: |
Interview with Xbox Series X development lead Jason Ronald, on the console's power and price, its new boot screen, giving developers creative control, and more — Jason Ronald's job title is partner director of program management for the Xbox platform team, but what that somewhat robotic label boils …
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty” — Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
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| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at how JD.com and Alibaba's Taobao in China used livestreaming to help farmers engage with their customers and sell more products amid COVID-19 — When coronavirus ground the country to a halt, the agricultural industry could no longer sell its produce. E-commerce giants used the chance to bring the sector online.Sponsor Posts
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