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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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.| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook's security team had disinfo concerns about The Daily Wire's sites in 2019, clashing with the policy team, which prevented action being taken — After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn posted a $1.58B profit in Q4 2019, down 24% YoY; sources say the 5G iPhone will launch in the fall, but future Apple products may be delayed — - The company known as Foxconn grappling with Covid-19 upheaval — Apple's key partner getting back on track after the outbreak
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| Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian: |
Data from a whistleblower appears to show Saudi Arabia tracking the location of its citizens in the US by exploiting flaws in the SS7 phone network protocol — Exclusive: Whistleblower's data suggests millions of tracking requests sent over four-month period
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| Mark Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews: |
Microsoft says it has seen a 775% increase in use of its cloud services worldwide 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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Tweets: @trengriffin, @geo_walters, @brinkhoff_c, @0xdabbad00, and @gossithedog
| Marc Tracy / New York Times: |
Facebook invests $100M more to support the news industry amid COVID-19: $25M in emergency grant funding for local news and $75M in additional marketing spend — With grants and marketing spending, the social media giant hopes to support outlets doing essential local reporting but struggling with a drop in advertising.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @joshjame, @campbell_brown, @learmonth, @gavmorris, @sofus_d, and @brianstelter
| Zara Stone / OneZero : |
A look at video chat service Houseparty, which has topped the Australian, Canadian, and UK iOS App Stores and is like Zoom but with built-in games — ast Saturday night, Jason Shaverin, a 36-year-old project manager in London, spent three hours talking to friends on Houseparty … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
HQ Trivia, which laid off its entire staff and shut down in February, has been acquired by an undisclosed investor and has already returned, airing another show — HQ Trivia, the live game-show app that shut down in February and laid off its entire staff, is unexpectedly returning tonight with a new show.
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VentureBeat, CNET, New York Post, Android Authority, Telegraph, Digital Trends, IGN, The Next Web, Mashable, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @mattwasfunny, @hqtrivia, @kerrymflynn, @tomgara, and @kerrymflynn
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
As the Authors Guild voices its opposition to Internet Archive's National Emergency Library, a look at the legal issues related to digital book lending — Massive online library project is venturing into uncharted legal waters. — One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures … | Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google should add contact tracing functionality, similar to Singapore's TraceTogether app, in a privacy-respecting way to iOS and Android — After the shutdown, the testing and tracing. “Trace, test and treat is the mantra ... no lockdowns, no roadblocks and no restriction on movement” in South Korea.
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Schneier on Security and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @bencapper3, @florencebonnet, @karanmerwana, and @tfoil2
| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
Preply, an online language tutoring service that uses machine learning to pair tutors with students, raises €9M led by London-based Hoxton Ventures — Today the edtech startup Preply has announced an additional €9 million of funding, doubling the total raised in its previous rounds.
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Tech.eu, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, PR Newswire, EdSurge, and Business Insider
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Q&A with CA Rep. Ro Khanna on COVID-19's impact on tech industry, how stimulus' SMB loans work for VC-funded companies, unemployment protections for gig jobs — Protocol talks with the California representative about how the tech industry is being affected by the crisis — and what comes next.
Tweets: @protocol and @demianbulwa
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