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Tim Cook says Apple has now sourced 20M+ masks for healthcare workers from its supply chain and has designed and will ship face shields at a rate of 1M/week — Tim Cook is back with another update on Apple's ongoing efforts to help healthcare professionals amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Quibi app review: works reliably, auto-flips between landscape and portrait, but no tablet-optimized mode, no family member profiles, and lacks a TV experience — A mobile-only video app was always going to be a hard sell — After months of publicity, Quibi — the mobile phone app that's centered …
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| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Jeffery Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's Quibi short-video streaming service launches with $1.8B in funding amid the COVID-19 pandemic — Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman had to cancel a starry Hollywood party for their short-video platform because of the virus. But Quibi is still going live.
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| Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian: |
After some UK cell towers were set on fire, the government will meet Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to stop the spread of a conspiracy theory linking 5G to COVID-19 — After a spate of fires, the government is stepping in to halt the spread of linking coronavirus to the mobile network
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
YouTube says it will remove content spreading conspiracy theories linking 5G and coronavirus, but will leave content that is simply conspiratorial about 5G — Decision comes as four more phone masts are attacked — Play Video — YouTube will reduce the amount of content spreading conspiracy theories …
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| Gareth Corfield / The Register: |
UK High Court judge says Google will either need to let an SEO expert inspect its ranking algorithms or withdraw evidence from its long-running competition case — Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case — Google must either show its “crown jewels” to a man it described …
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook review: excellent keyboard, beautiful display, thin and light design, and fast performance, but poor battery life and expensive — That 4K screen comes at a major cost. — 6m ago — Google has been selling expensive, high-end Chromebooks for years now.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Twice this week, traffic to 200+ of the world's largest CDNs and cloud hosts was redirected through Russia's telco Rostelecom in likely BGP hijacking attacks — Rostelecom involved in BGP hijacking incident this week impacting more than 200 CDNs and cloud providers.| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Q&A with Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and ex-head of Microsoft Office products, on his present role as VP and GM of G Suite, the future of email, and more — Javier Soltero is six or so months into his job at Google as vice president and GM of G Suite, and he readily admits he still … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Yapily, which offers an API to let enterprises connect to banks offering open banking services, raises $13M Series A led by Lakestar — Yapily, one of a number of fintech startups that offer an opening banking API to let enterprises, such as financial service providers and merchants … | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz / New York Times: |
Researchers: Google searches about symptoms, like loss of smell, can help find places where positive COVID-19 cases were missed and reveal undetected symptoms — They can also reveal symptoms that at first went undetected. I may have found a new one. — Mr. Stephens-Davidowitz is the author of …
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| Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
A look at how big tech companies and startups are helping governments around the world tackle COVID-19, with chatbots, supercomputers, hackathons, and more — Governments around the world have called on the help of the technology industry. Here are a few of the projects in the works.Sponsor Posts
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