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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook says Apple has now sourced 20M+ masks for healthcare workers from its supply chain, has designed and is shipping face shields at a rate of 1M per 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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| Harriet Sherwood / The Guardian: |
After some cell towers in the UK were set on fire, govt to meet with 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 … | Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
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| Valerie Strauss / Washington Post: |
Zoom is being banned over security concerns by some US school districts, including NYC, which is directing teachers to switch to Microsoft Teams — Some school districts around the country have started to ban the use of Zoom for online learning from home during the coronavirus crisis …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
NetMarketShare: Microsoft Edge becomes the second most popular desktop browser for the first time, with a market share of 7.59%, beating Mozilla Firefox's 7.19% — The Microsoft Edge browser is now being used by more people than Mozilla Firefox making it the 2nd most popular desktop browser.| 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 … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Skype no longer requires video call participants to have an account or to download software, letting users join a call via a link, similar to Zoom — Microsoft has made some nice improvements to its Skype video call service. Starting today, users don't need to sign up for an account …
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| Nathan DiCamillo / CoinDesk: |
PwC report: the total number of crypto M&A deals dropped from 189 in 2018 to 114 last year, while the value of M&A deals dropped from $1.89B to $451M — Crypto companies kept buying each other last year even as both M&A and funding deal flow in the industry took a dive, according to a report released Monday by PwC.
Tweets: @coindesk
| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
In internal email lists Amazon corporate employees express dismay over the firing of Christian Smalls and a report that management discussed a plan to smear him — Amazon fired warehouse worker Christian Smalls after he led a walkout at a Staten Island facility in late March. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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Margins, New York Times, Forbes, Slate, and Fox News
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Huawei joins the Open Invention Network, the leading US-based patent non-aggression group covering Linux and related open-source tech — In a move many will find surprising, Huawei is joining the Linux and Open Invention Network, the leading US-based open-source patent non-aggression group.
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| Protocol: |
Execs at US digital banks say European challengers, like N26, are underestimating the hurdles they will face in the US, like regulation and cultural differences — Banking is becoming increasingly all-digital, and European upstarts want to dominate in the U.S. But it won't be that simple, experts say.| 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.Sponsor Posts
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