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Germany says it will adopt a decentralized approach to digital contact tracing backed by Apple and Google, abandoning its home-grown alternative — BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to trace coronavirus infections … | John Luttig / luttig's learnings: |
The internet tailwinds that propelled meteoric growth in Silicon Valley are stalling, which will accelerate zero-sum games between startups and incumbents — The Internet tailwinds that propelled Silicon Valley's meteoric growth for decades are stalling out. The ripple effects will jolt the tech industry.
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Australia launches a contact-tracing app that records digital handshakes between smartphones via Bluetooth, sees 1.1M signups within a few hours — - Software records digital handshake between smartphones — Tracking app needs to overcome privacy concerns to succeed| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
How Magic Leap failed to miniaturize tech used in its early, stunning demos, which wooed high-profile investors, leading to an unspectacular consumer product — Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel … | Neha Alawadhi / Business Standard: |
WhatsApp says there has been a 70% reduction in the number of highly forwarded messages sent after its new forwarding limit was enforced — Earlier this month, WhatsApp limited the number of times a frequently forwarded message can be sent further to only one chat at a time
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Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE — He's stepped up to lead the war against COVID-19 — “I didn't know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the business.”
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance and Facebook pilot JioMart e-commerce orders via WhatsApp in three cities in Maharashtra, India, partnering with 1,200 grocery stores — JioMart, an e-commerce venture run by India's most valued firm, is testing an “ordering system” on WhatsApp, teasing the first peek … | Financial Times: |
US startups and big companies like PwC are making contact tracing apps to track staff in reopened facilities, some incorporating data from Bluetooth wearables — Tools could track movement of office workers to within a few centimetres — Companies including PwC, the global consultancy …
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A deep dive into Clubhouse, an invite-only audio-based social network, how it might evolve, and its long-term potential as a business — About a month ago I got a DM inviting me to “a community for casual, drop-in audio conversations.” So I downloaded the app, created a profile, and was greeted by a blank screen.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app's old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more — Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they're so difficult to detect.| Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: |
A look at the origin of the conspiracy theory linking 5G to COVID-19, which went mainstream as influential people and celebrities started amplifying it in March — Damaged cabling and telecommunications equipment is pictured following a fire at a phone mast attached to a chimney in Huddersfield, northern England, on April 17.
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Afraid of losing rankings in Amazon search, some suppliers are redirecting a “lion's share” of their products to Amazon, and whatever is left to other retailers — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.
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