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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: IBM is laying off thousands of workers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, and New York — - Thousands of IBM workers in North America likely affected — Newly unemployed staff fear finding another job in a recession — International Business Machines Corp. cut …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on working from home, antitrust, collaborating with Apple and others, how Alphabet's holding company model held up, and more — In an interview, the Google and Alphabet CEO discusses working from home, weathering antitrust probes, and how the company needs to do a better job on diversity.
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| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
US district court rules that turning on a phone to view its lockscreen without unlocking it qualifies as searching the phone and would generally need a warrant — Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. — Smartphones are a rich data trove not only for marketers but also for law enforcement.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Sources: a version of iOS 14 dated Dec. 2019, likely obtained via a development iPhone 11, has been circulating among researchers and jailbreakers for months — Security researchers and hackers have had access to a leaked early version of iOS 14, the iPhone's next operating system, since at least February, Motherboard has learned.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at China's plan to invest an estimated $1.4T over six years to build out 5G, surveillance infrastructure, and AI, relying heavily on Chinese companies — - Latest infrastructure blueprint aims to spur virus-hit economy — Plan helps Beijing swap foreign brands for national champions
Tweets: @johnhemmings2, @khoelzle, and @lisaabramowicz1
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
With Spotify owning shows, a podcast player, tools to make new shows, and selling ads, the podcasting world is now divided into open and closed ecosystems — The Joe Rogan deal makes the company's big ambitions known — In what's likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Sources: while Amazon has pushed its annual Prime Day to September, the company is preparing for an earlier “Summer Sale” to let brands sell excess inventory — After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.
Tweets: @shiraovide, @shiraovide, and @puiwingtam
| Bloomberg: |
Interviews shed light on the strained relationship between Masayoshi Son and Vision Fund leader Rajeev Misra, who some say has created a divisive workplace — Son's support tested after $18 billion in writedowns, clashes with internal rivals — In early March, before the coronavirus pandemic triggered …
Tweets: @economictimes, @andresbarreto, @bradstone, @menakadoshi, and @bloombergquint. Thanks:@tsgiles
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Audible is in talks to acquire celebrity podcasts and considers selling original shows individually; Amazon Music is also preparing to add podcasts — Under growing pressure from Spotify, the e-commerce giant is looking to spend big in podcast land| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Report: the official COVID-19 contact tracing app for North Dakota is sharing location data with Foursquare and an advertising ID with Google — The official COVID-19 contact tracing app for the state of North Dakota, designed to detect whether people have potentially been exposed to the coronavirus …
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| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Comparing Nvidia's new A100 Ampere AI chip with competition from Intel and GraphCore in terms of performance, economics, and software — Now that the dust from Nvidia's unveiling of its new Ampere AI chip has settled, let's take a look at the AI chip market behind the scenes and away from the spotlight| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Statespace, whose software recreates the physics of popular FPS games to help players work on their weaknesses, raises $15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures — Statespace has today raised a $15 million Series A financing round led by Khosla, with partner Samir Kaul joining the board.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
States Title, a house title insurance and closing startup that claims to use AI to reduce the time of a closing from around 40 days to 20, raises $123M Series C — Buying a home is one of the biggest, and most expensive, decisions in a person's life. Over the past year or so … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
After its debut last year, the Oculus Quest has quickly overcome many of its initial compromises, with an expanded library and better PC VR integration — If you can actually find one in stock, of course — One year ago today, Facebook released the Oculus Quest, its first headset to deliver …
Tweets: @starfire2258, @harrymccracken, and @dcseifert
| David Jagneaux / UploadVR: |
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook says it will let many of its 50,000 employees work from home permanently, “aggressively” open up remote hiring, first in the USA, then elsewhere — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the social media giant will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees …
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