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Sources: Apple is planning to announce a shift to its own Arm-based processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel, as early as this month at WWDC — - Company readies Macs for next year without Intel processors — Apple is holding virtual version of WWDC event week of June 22
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| Ramesh Nagarajan / The Keyword: |
Google Maps will start showing COVID-19 related travel alerts and local restrictions — Getting from A to B can be more complicated these days. Because of COVID-19, it's increasingly important to know how crowded a train station might be at a particular time or whether the bus is running on a limited schedule.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance — In a letter to members of Congress on Monday, IBM said it is existing the general-purpose facial recognition business …
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| Reuters: |
An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed — LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Cox says it has slowed Internet speeds for entire neighborhoods to punish users with “excessive usage” — Cox warns customers to lower usage, imposes 10Mbps upload limit on “gigabit” plan. — Cox Communications is lowering Internet upload speeds in entire neighborhoods to stop …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
MSN's AI editor confused a mixed-race member of the band Little Mix with another and staff were told to delete articles about the mix-up should the AI find them — Firm's plan to replace editors with AI backfires after wrong image of musician is published — Microsoft's decision …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
MIT researchers have designed a chip with tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses called memristors that could effectively recall images in high detail — Researchers at MIT have published a new paper that describes a new type of artificial brain synapse which offers performance improvements vs …
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| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Honda says a cyberattack on its network forced it to suspend global production and give many staffers a day off; some vehicle factories remain closed — Japanese manufacturer forced to suspend global operations for a day following disruption — Japanese carmaker Honda said on Tuesday …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Twitter brings Fleets, its version of Stories, to India, after rolling them out in Brazil and Italy — Twitter said Tuesday it is bringing Fleets, its version of Stories that lets users post ephemeral content to its social network, to users in India. Late last month, the social networking site … | New York Times: |
Amid intense criticism of working conditions, a look at an Amazon warehouse in Kent, WA, that now has plexiglass dividers, sanitizer stations, and a testing lab — Amazon, which has been under fire on worker safety, invited us into one facility to show its response. — By Karen WeisePhotographs by Ruth Fremson
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Nextdoor's reliance on untrained volunteer moderators has raised concerns over censorship and targeting of people of color, an issue amplified by recent events — Kalkidan G. moved to Rancho Santa Fe because it was one of the nicer neighborhoods in San Diego.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DNAnexus, which provides cloud-based analytics software for genomics and other clinical big data projects, raises $100M Series G — DNAnexus, which provides a cloud platform for governments, universities, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies to tap into DNA and other clinical datasets …
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| Sean Keane / CNET: |
Nintendo now says 300K accounts were compromised, up from 160K it said had been affected in April; dates of birth, email addresses, nicknames, and more leaked — On top of the 160,000 it acknowledged back in April, that brings the total to 300,000. — Nintendo on Tuesday updated a notice …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Yugabyte, maker of the open source, cloud-native YougabyteDB distributed database, raises $30M Series B led by 8VC, bringing its total raised to $55M — Ope- source relational database company Yugabyte Inc. is in the mood for expansion after landing a new $30 million funding round announced today.| Jim Robbins / New York Times: |
A look at ICARUS, a new approach to tracking animals, tagged with transmitters, over long distances using new equipment aboard the International Space Station — Using tiny sensors and equipment aboard the space station, a project called ICARUS seeks to revolutionize animal tracking.
Tweets: @nytscience and @nytclimate
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates its COVID-19 app and website to let users anonymously share info, including age, health conditions, and symptoms, with the CDC — Apple has updated its own COVID-19 iOS app and website with new features to allow users to anonymously share info including their age …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, iDownloadBlog.com, and Engadget
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Bipartisan Senate report criticizes the FCC, DHS, DOJ, and others for “minimal oversight” of Chinese telecom companies operating on US communications networks — Alarm has been rising in Washington over the extent of Chinese influence in the U.S., with particular focus on universities …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
France and Germany have kicked off GAIA-X, the EU's bid to get cloud independence from US and Chinese tech companies and distance from laws like US Cloud Act — France and Germany launch GAIA-X EU cloud independence project. — France and Germany have kicked off the GAIA-X cloud project … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Digital volunteerism has spread alongside the pandemic, with community-driven projects like AllClear which provides a directory of COVID-19 testing locations — Three start-up veterans who created an online directory of testing sites are among a wave of volunteers contributing to the virus fight.
Tweets: @evelynrusli, @daiwaka, and @nytimesbusiness
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Database security startup jSonar raises $50M Series A from Goldman Sachs — Why would Goldman Sachs invest a hefty amount into a previously little known company working on something unsexy like database security? — Let's face it: database security is not the most appealing topic for most people.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and SiliconANGLE
| Reuters: |
Online used car seller Vroom raises $467.5M in its US IPO after pricing its shares at $22, above the initially marketed range of $18-$20 — (Reuters) - Online used car seller Vroom Inc raised $467.5 million in its U.S. initial public offering, the company said on Monday …
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