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Report: CDC, state and local authorities in the US have started using anonymized location data from mobile ads to help plan their response to the pandemic — The use of phone location tracking to keep tabs on COVID-19 is becoming increasingly common, and the US appears to be no exception.| Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
Microsoft says that there has been a 775% increase in use of its cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders — This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services.
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Cloud Computing Services, Forbes, GeekWire, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, ZDNet, The Register, TechSpot, Shrewsbury Tech, MSPoweruser, VG247, and Dot Esports
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Crowdsourced data from Candor shows 267 tech companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, while 111, like Zoom and Twitter, are hiring — The coronavirus has taken a toll on the workforce, and now you can see a list of who's hiring, freezing hires, laying off people …
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| Financial Times: |
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet — New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services
Tweets: @martinsfp, @bakerluke, @amir, @jgriffiths, @madhumita29, @tonytassell, @iyervval, @hoofnagle, @hillmanje, and @financialtimes
| Financial Times: |
An in-depth look at China's New IP proposal, whose plans are being spearheaded by Richard Li, chief scientist at Futurewei, Huawei's California-based R&D arm — Huawei is developing the technology for a new network. But what does this mean for the rights of users?| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Zoom updates its iOS app to remove Facebook SDK after concerns were raised over Zoom's failure to disclose Facebook data sharing in privacy policy — On Friday video-conferencing software Zoom issued an update to its iOS app which stops it sending certain pieces of data to Facebook.
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Zoom Blog, The Verge, CNET, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, IT Management, Neowin, MSPoweruser, BetaNews, iMore, and Seeking Alpha
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| Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: |
AppBrain: Google Classroom, which wasn't in the top 100 most popular apps in the Play Store at the start of March, surpasses 50M installs, joins top 5 in the US — Because of the coronavirus pandemic, most schools and universities around the world have had to close.
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AppBrain, 9to5Google, Telegraph, and Android Police
| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
UK's NHS says it is working with Microsoft, Google, Palantir, and Faculty AI on a dashboard that shows the spread of the virus and NHS' ability to deal with it — The NHS has confirmed it is teaming up with leading tech firms to ensure critical medical equipment is available to the facilities …
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Technology in the NHS. Tweets: @nhsx, @tomcopsymes, @rachelcoldicutt, @lisafox202, @danielkorski, @palantirtech, @jdr_tech, @benpatrickwill, @nmrperrin, @rowlsmanthorpe, @paulias, @jenit, @yvesalexandre, @peterkwells, @ruskin147, and @halhod
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure should let startups and small businesses defer their cloud infrastructure payments for three to six months — Or their COVID-disrupted customers could shut down — Google, Amazon and Microsoft are the landlords.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Big Tech's response to COVID-19 may have paused the tech backlash that dominated the coverage of companies like Facebook and Amazon over the past 3+ years — The backlash against tech giants may not be over — but at the very least it's on pause — On March 5th, as COVID-19 began …
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The Economic Times, The Verge, Fox Business, Business Insider, CNET, The Economic Times, ZDNet, The Precursor Blog, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @gaberivera, @balajis, @berci, @cwarzel, @alecstapp, @karolien1231, @psb_dc, @william_fitz, @cwarzel, and @cwarzel
| ProPublica: |
An in-depth look at China's Twitter propaganda machine, which uses over 10K fake Twitter accounts to promote the Chinese government's image abroad — Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese.
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New York Times, Trustnodes, Reclaim The Net, and The Atlantic
Tweets: @usbotschaft, @risj_oxford, @huwlemmey, @john_sipher, @summerinsmokehk, @momblogger, and @bethanyallenebr
| Peter White / Deadline: |
Q&A with Jeffrey Katzenberg on launching Quibi on April 6 in the middle of a global pandemic, why Quibi only licenses rather than owns the content, and more — Quibi is one of the most anticipated platform launches of the year and it's also one of the most talked about in Hollywood circles.
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