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Sources: NHSX, UK health service's technology arm, is working on a Bluetooth-based contact tracing app with Google and Apple at a “breakneck speed” — Ministers have ordered the creation of an NHS mobile phone app the government hopes will help end the coronavirus lockdown.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Apple says COVID-19 contact tracing apps can include duration of proximity when deciding what is a proximity event, potentially limiting false positive pings — Adoption is the hard part of contact tracing apps so far — but if it's baked into the operating system, it gets a lot easier
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
NHSX to test an app for users to send a “yellow alert” if they self-diagnose with COVID-19 symptoms and a “red alert” if they test positive, to recent contacts — The UK has confirmed plans for an app that will warn users if they have recently been in close proximity …
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| The Guardian: |
Leaked docs reveal the extent of UK's cooperation with Faculty and Palantir on a “Covid-19 datastore” to power the previously announced NHS pandemic dashboard — Technology firms are processing large volumes of confidential UK patient information in a data-mining operation …
Tweets: @thattimwalker, @gladstein, @rowlsmanthorpe, and @paullewis
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Cloudflare says it will drop Google's reCAPTCHA bot detection service, as Google plans to charge for its use, and replace it with Intuition Machines' hCAPTCHA — Cloudflare says its moving to hCaptcha, an alternative CAPTCHA service, more private than reCAPTCHA.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches a site for COVID-19 testing providers to submit info on their testing locations, which, once reviewed, will be displayed on Apple Maps — Continuing Apple's efforts in helping fight the coronavirus, Apple Maps will soon display testing sites directly on the map.
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| Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at the evolving safety precautions at Amazon's JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York, and how changes are driven primarily by worker pressure — Early Tuesday, March 24th, Barbara Chandler drove from her home in Queens to the Staten Island Amazon warehouse where she'd worked for three years.
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| Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
A third of India's 4M IT workers at firms like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, and Wipro still go to the office daily to serve clients abroad amid lockdown — Looking at Big Tech as the next Big Oil. — The world's abrupt slowing down in the past few weeks may have introduced millions …
Tweets: @aakar__patel and @passivefool
| Duncan Fyfe / VICE: |
A look back at Leisure Suit Larry and the claims that pirated versions of the game contributed to the spread of the Jerusalem DOS virus in the late 1980s — Leisure Suit Larry sprang from the womb a combed-over Casanova in white polyester. A court jester with a satyr's appetites …
Tweets: @vice, @duncanfyfe, @robzacny, @derektmead, and @mistertechblog
| Garrett Bridges / Android Police: |
Instagram has now added support for watching Live streams on the web for some users — Instagram Live has become one of the largest platforms for personal streaming, but broadcasts were only viewable from the mobile app, which can be a drag for longer streams.
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| New York Times: |
Experts say social distancing directives, likely to continue in some form after the COVID-19 crisis, could prompt various industries to accelerate automation — Broad unease about losing jobs to machines could dissipate as people focus on the benefits of minimizing close human contact.
Tweets: @mckinsey_mgi, @ashkan, @mcharlesworth7, @nytimesbusiness, @hidetomitanaka, @danileis, @kevin_kubi, @ptknight_, and @nytimestech
| Washington Post: |
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced experts to reframe the debate about screen time, at least temporarily, as devices become portals to employment and education — Go ahead, look at your phone and tablet. Much of it is necessary. Even the frivolous stuff. — We're on Zoom calls six hours per day.
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