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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple pushes back production of flagship iPhones coming later this year by about a month, as the pandemic weakens demand and disrupts manufacturing — The phones, some with 5G connectivity, will vary in price and come in three sizes — Apple Inc. is pushing back the production ramp …
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| CNN: |
Baseless YouTube conspiracy videos, embraced by CCP media and uploaded to WeChat, Weibo, claim a US Army reservist started the pandemic and are ruining her life — Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place …
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Many tech startups are successfully applying for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, often to extend their runways despite already raising large sums — Some young companies have turned to the government loans not for day-to-day survival but simply to buy useful time.| Bloomberg: |
Australia launches a contact-tracing app that records digital handshakes between smartphones via Bluetooth, seeing 1.1M signups within a few hours — - Software records digital handshake between smartphones — Tracking app needs to overcome privacy concerns to succeed
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Interviews and documents show Europe's GDPR rules have been stymied by a lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources, and tech companies stalling — Nearly two years in, there has been little enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation, once seen as ushering in a new era.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Josh Constine says he's leaving TechCrunch after 8.5 years to join VC fund SignalFire as their head of content and a principal investor — How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love.
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Teams that could have been exploited by hackers to hijack accounts by sending malicious links or GIFs — Microsoft has addressed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by hackers to hijack Microsoft Teams accounts by sending specially crafted links … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Review of Google's second-generation $179 wireless Pixel Buds: sound quality has improved, but their silicone “stabilizer arc” can cause discomfort over time — Google's new earbuds finally go truly wireless and have improved sound quality — Google's original Pixel Buds came …
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| 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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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
A look at video conferencing startups like Shindig, Remotion, and Whereby that are challenging the tech giants by focusing on niche features and services — Videoconferencing has gone from novelty to niche to necessity in record time. But while a handful of tech giants dominate, with Zoom …
Tweets: @pierce
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
As the pandemic halts filming, ad agencies are increasingly turning towards digitally altered, deepfake-style ads that repurpose old footage for new uses — With the pandemic having shut down production, companies are asking ad agencies to create commercials made up of digitally altered footage.
Tweets: @tiffkhsu, @joshsternberg, @edbott, @changeist, and @kerrymflynn
| Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the ways medical professionals are using TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to combat COVID-19 misinformation and the challenges they face as influencers — When President Trump suggested during a press conference that doctors should look into treating covid-19 patients with an … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Automation Anywhere, a robotic process automation firm valued at $6.8B in its $290M Series B last fall, is laying off over 10% of its 2,600 employees — Automation Anywhere, a robotic process automation company valued at $6.8 billion last fall by venture capitalists …
Tweets: @danprimack
| Reuters: |
Amazon says it is testing a video conference system to verify the identities of new merchants, used by 1,000+ applicants in the US, UK, China, and Japan so far — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is piloting the use of video conference calls to verify the identity of merchants who wish …
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