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COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom — Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before Q2, as suppliers like lens manufacturer Genius Electronic Optical struggle to keep up amid COVID-19 — Apple's iPhone production will not significantly improve until the second quarter of 2020, according to a research note … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO — Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Alphabet's X unveils Tidal, a moonshot project to track thousands of fish using computer vision and AI to protect the ocean and help feed humanity sustainably — Latest Division X project aims to help fish farmers, and the planet — Today Alphabet is announcing Tidal …
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A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19 — A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher demos multiple ways of how to take over and repurpose allegedly state sponsored Mac malware — Former NSA hacker repackages in-the-wild Mac malware for his own use. — SAN FRANCISCO—Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors'.
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| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia's library is sparse because Google wasn't offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future — - Last November, Google finally launched a major gaming platform that was in development for years: Google Stadia.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Several terabytes of stolen adult content from OnlyFans, a social media platform popular with sex workers, influencers, and porn actors, have leaked — A leak of several terabytes of pornographic images and videos from clip site OnlyFans went viral on Thursday.
Tweets: @allyo_reilly
| Don Clark / New York Times: |
How CEO Robert Swan is overhauling Intel's culture to improve the relationship between chip designers and manufacturing, and vastly speeding up product design — Robert Swan, who leads the world's biggest chip maker, is pushing his 110,000 employees to confront internal problems more openly.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @jonmasters
| Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr: |
Indian used-car platform Spinny raises $43.7M Series B led by the Fundamentum Partnership, claims to have sold 10,000 cars through its marketplace — Full-stack pre-owned car retailing platform Spinny announced that it has raised $43.7 million in Series B funding round led by Nandan Nilekani … | Leah Nylen / Politico: |
AG Bill Barr, a close Trump ally, has spent months taking greater control of DOJ's antitrust probes into big tech firms, sidelining current antitrust leadership — Attorney General William Barr has spent months taking greater control of the Justice Department's antitrust probes into the big tech companies … Sponsor Posts
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