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Google uses aggregated anonymized location data from 131 countries to show which places are complying with social distancing and which aren't — New COVID-19 mobility reports show changes in traffic to stores, parks, transit stations, and more — Google is using location data gathered …
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Researchers are using Facebook's location data to provide daily updates to US cities and states evaluating the effectiveness of social distancing amid COVID-19 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Infectious disease researchers are using Facebook Inc mobile location data to provide daily updates … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Civil liberties advocates say a data-driven approach to pandemic response is compatible with individual rights, but with limits and justifications at every step — In less than a decade, whistleblowers like the NSA's Edward Snowden and Cambridge Analytica's Christopher Wylie helped spur … | Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets — Meetings on Zoom, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious …
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Profile of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, who says the company will “probably” suspend all tracking on Zoom's sites and consider open-sourcing its code in the future — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Zoom CEO Eric Yuan's kids finally care about what he does for a living.
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Source: Apple's new entry level iPhone will be called iPhone SE, available in white, black, and red, with 64GB, 128GB, or 256GB storage options — 9to5Mac has learned new information about Apple's long-rumored, entry-level iPhone model, including the marketing name, product colors …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Leaked memo: Apple told employees that its retail stores in the US will remain closed and work-from-home procedures will remain in place until early May — - Apple's top retail, human resources exec sends memo to workers — Work from home to also remain in place in U.S. on Covid-19| Pururaj Dutta / Appleosophy: |
Apple references its rumored AirTags item tracking tags in a video uploaded to its Apple Support channel on YouTube — Apple just uploaded a video on their Apple Support YouTube channel titled “How to erase your iPhone”. This tutorial tells us about the process of erasing an iPhone …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Source: Airbnb CEO told staff at a company-wide meeting that the company lowered its internal valuation to $26B, a 16% drop since its last funding round — Exclusive: short-term rental site hit by sharp drop in bookings because of coronavirus outbreak — The short-term rental site Airbnb …
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| Julian Borger / The Guardian: |
Twitter deletes 20K fake accounts linked to governments of Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Honduras, and Indonesia for “attempt to undermine public conversation” — Accounts also linked to Honduras and Indonesia violated policy and were ‘targeted attempt to undermine the public conversation’| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft's Azure Cognitive Services gets new voice styles designed to help developers tailor the voice of their apps and services to their brand or scenario — Microsoft Corp. today added new “voice styles” to Azure Cognitive Services, its cloud-based suite of application programming interfaces …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A deep dive into the deal between Apple and Amazon that lets the retail giant process some payments in Prime Video app, and the motivations of both companies — Benjamin Mayo, writing for 9to5Mac yesterday: … I've been digging into this since the news broke, and I think it's even more significant than Mayo suggests.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
The new iPad Pro gets a privacy feature, first introduced on 2018 MacBooks, that disconnects hardware microphones when an attached MFi compliant case is closed — Recent Apple MacBooks have included an aggressive security feature that disconnects hardware microphones when the lid is physically closed.
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