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Amazon says it has begun assembling equipment to build a lab to screen its workers for COVID-19, may be working on antigen testing — With workers in at least 64 warehouses and shipping facilities testing positive, the e-commerce giant says it hopes to start testing a small numbers of employees ‘soon’
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google rebrands its business-focused teleconferencing app Hangouts Meet to Google Meet and Hangouts Chat to Google Chat, leaving Hangouts brand for consumers — Following the official change from Hangouts Meet to Google Meet — Google has officially removed the Hangouts brand …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google creates an application portal to help New York State with the recent surge of unemployment filings, says it could bring a similar service to more states — - The state of New York announced a partnership with Google for an online unemployment application system.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram is rolling out access to DMs on the web to everyone globally, after testing the feature since January — The global rollout starts at 10AM ET — Instagram's making it easier for people to send direct messages from their browser. The company announced on Friday that it's rolling … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook begins rolling out “Quiet Mode” app feature that mutes most notifications and helps schedule breaks; coming to iOS in April and Android in May — Facebook is rolling out a new feature today that allows users to mute all notifications from the social network.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sophos: more than 30 “fleeceware” apps on the App Store, including some of the highest-grossing ones, are abusing free trial mechanics to charge obscene fees — More than 3.5 million iOS users installed ‘fleeceware’ apps from the Apple App Store.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Cybersecurity service Zscaler said it plans to acquire Cloudneeti, a cloud security startup that helps prevent cloud service and application misconfiguration — Publicly traded cybersecurity provider Zscaler Inc. today said it's acquiring Cloudneeti Corp., a Seattle startup … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
How Microsoft Teams plans to use AI for its noise suppression feature to filter out some non-stationary noises like dog barks while keeping others like laughter — Last month, Microsoft announced that Teams, its competitor to Slack, Facebook's Workplace, and Google's Hangouts Chat, had passed 44 million daily active users.| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Amazon stands to emerge from the pandemic stronger than many of its competitors, with as much as an additional $4B in revenue this year, per Bank of America — (CNN Business)As the coronavirus pandemic has forced people to stay inside, few companies have proven themselves as essential as Amazon.| Bani Sapra / Business Insider: |
Facebook files lawsuit against Basant Gajjar, founder of LeadCloak, alleging its software helped scammers run deceptive ads on Facebook and Instagram — - Facebook announced that it filed a lawsuit against the founder of a company called LeadCloak on Thursday, alleging that it was helping …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google launches a braille keyboard for Android that requires no extra hardware, letting users tap a standard 6-key layout to type letters and words — Google today announced the launch of a virtual braille keyboard for Android that's designed to enable those with low vision or blindness …
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| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
Report: Travelex paid hackers 285 BTC, worth around $2.3M, to regain access to its systems after a ransomware attack on New Year's Eve — Travelex paid hackers $2.3 million worth of Bitcoin to regain access to its computer systems after a devastating ransomware attack on New Year's Eve, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
Analysis of efforts by 25 governments to track the COVID-19 pandemic using new surveillance programs, such as using location data or releasing an app — At least 28 countries are ramping up surveillance to combat the coronavirus — an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic …
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Protocol. Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @antoniocasilli, @drorpoleg, @evanselinger, @elemental, @sarahnemerson, @drewcostley, and @davegershgorn. Thanks:@dlberes
| Bloomberg: |
A look at how Google Classroom has doubled its active users to 100M MAUs amid COVID-19, with the ubiquity of Chromebooks, affordability, deep LMS integrations — - Google Classroom users double to 100 million during the crisis — Company has spent years entrenching itself in schools| Bloomberg: |
In a filing, DOJ and other federal agencies urge the FCC to revoke China Telecom's permission to operate in the United States, which it has held since 2007 — - Defense and Justice departments cite national security threat — Security agencies file at Federal Communications Commission
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Starship Technologies expands its autonomous food delivery robot service to Tempe, AZ, following launches in Washington, D.C., and Irvine, citing rising demand — Starship Technologies has launched a robot food delivery service in Tempe, Arizona, as part of the autonomous delivery startup's …
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