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Google says it will not host an in-person I/O event this year, due to coronavirus fears, and will instead offer a series of online events — Following a string of other tech cancellations in recent days, Google just announced that it will not host an in-person I/O 2020 over coronavirus concerns.
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| Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
India's Supreme Court strikes down central bank's two-year-old ban on cryptocurrency trading in the country — - RBI banned banking services for digital currencies in 2018 — Start ups, exchanges, industry body challenged RBI's directive — India's Supreme Court struck …
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
In an email to staff, Amazon says an employee at its Seattle headquarters has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the affected employee remains in quarantine — An Amazon employee at the company's Seattle headquarters has tested positive for the novel coronavirus spreading across the country …
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| Jim Salter / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt discovers a bug in its Certification Authority Authorization code, meaning affected users need to manually force-renew certs to avoid downtime — Let's Encrypt users will need to manually force-renew once to avoid downtime. — On Leap Day, Let's Encrypt announced …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood says recent outages were caused by an “unprecedented load” on its system, will waive Gold customers' fee for 3 months, ~$15, as initial compensation — It wasn't the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood's massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Legal tech startup Atrium is shutting down, laying off 100+ employees; CEO Justin Kan says Atrium failed to be more efficient than a traditional law firm — Justin Kan's hybrid legal software and law firm startup Atrium is shutting down today after failing to figure out how to deliver better efficiency than a traditional law firm.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Citing coronavirus concerns, Apple restricts employee travel to Italy and South Korea, following its similar restrictions for China — - Company sends memo to employees about Covid-19 response — Sick employees told to take leave; virtual meetings encouraged
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| Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times: |
Uber sold Uber Eats in India to Zomato for $206M, instead of $350M as previously reported, in return for a 9.99% stake, lowering Zomato's ~$3B valuation — Ride-hailing major Uber Inc sold its India food delivery business to larger rival Zomato for $206 million in return for a 9.99% stake, regulatory filings by the US-based firm show.| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
KPMG report estimates that more than $9.8B worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen since 2017 because of lax security or poorly written code — - Digital assets are vulnerable to lax security and weak code — Industry custodians ‘have a tremendous opportunity to profit’
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hulu makes its live TV service available on the PS4, following Sony's decision to shut down their PlayStation Vue service in January — More live TV options come to Sony's gaming console — Hulu is bringing its live TV service, which is separate from its standalone on-demand streaming app … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Eden buys Managed by Q, a workplace management competitor, from WeWork for $25M cash, after WeWork bought Q for $220M last year — Managed by Q co-founder Dan Teran had a plan. After selling his office management company to WeWork last year for a tidy $220 million … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
A look at some ways people in China are using AI and machine learning algorithms to detect the spread of COVID-19, predict survival rates for patients, and more — The spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is a fluid situation changing by the day, and even by the hour.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
CB Insights analysis of top 100 AI startups: the “most promising” 65 are US-based, though some have a dual HQ in China; overall US investment share is dropping — - Study finds companies focus on health, retail, transportation — Investment from other countries could slow American share| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook plans to use digital versions of government-backed currencies along with its Libra token for its Calibra wallet when it is launched in October — Facebook is scaling back its ambitious plan to upend the global financial system with a new digital currency.
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Bloomberg, Input, Telegraph, Protocol, CryptoGlobe, BitcoinExchangeGuide, The Block, Ars Technica, The Overspill, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, CNET, BBC, The Verge, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is working on six products with mini-LED tech including an iMac Pro refresh for Q4 '20, a 7.9" iPad mini coming in 2020, and a 14.1" MacBook Pro — Apple has six mini-LED products in the works that are set to debut in 2020 and 2021, and production is not expected to be delayed by the coronavirus …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at three startups making credit cards for businesses, Ramp, Divvy, and Brex, which have collectively received over $1B in funding and debt — - Investors have placed big bets on business credit cards — American Express is still handily the largest player| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Overview of the steps Singapore is taking to improve consumer IoT security, including a proposed Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme for home routers and smart hubs — Singapore says it will launch the Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme for home routers and smart home hubs, as part of efforts … | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
Facebook says it has developed a more efficient ML tool to spot fake accounts, which has already helped take down 6.6B such accounts in the last year — Even equipped with a brand-new, high-performance algorithm, Facebook is unsure that it will ever win the war against fake accounts.Sponsor Posts
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