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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Automatic Labs, which was recently acquired by SiriusXM, shuts down its vehicle-tracking service, tells users to remove its connected car adapters from vehicles — Automatic has announced that it'll be abruptly shutting down on May 28th because “the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our business.”
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| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Valve ends SteamVR support for macOS, three years after Apple announced it at WWDC; Valve's survey found only 4% of Steam users were using macOS — Valve just ended SteamVR's support for macOS. ‘Legacy builds’ will continue to be available. — SteamVR is Valve's PC-based virtual reality platform, supporting Windows and Linux.| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Federal judge rules FCC must give access to logs containing IP addresses behind public comments for the 2017 net neutrality vote, after repeated fraud claims — A Manhattan federal judge has ruled the Federal Communications Commission must provide two reporters access to server logs … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
CDC issues new criteria for evaluating contact tracing tools to be used by public health authorities, opening the door for Apple-Google approach — - A new document published by the Centers for Disease Control outlines what it sees as the critical features for digital contact tracing apps.
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| Eric Rosenbaum / CNBC: |
Q&A with CEO of Apple subsidiary Claris who says FileMaker, Claris' low-code app development software, has seen a spike in interest amid the pandemic — - Apple owns enterprise software company Claris and its low-code application development software called FileMaker.| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
While the pandemic has driven sales for VR makers like Oculus, it has yet to give the tech mass-market appeal as a social or collaborative experience — Virtual escapism is perfect for a pandemic, but V.R. still seems far from a mainstream technology. — I have wanted to love virtual reality for a really long time.| The Economic Times: |
India's government has mandated all private sector employees to download its COVID-19 contact tracing app, following its mandate for all the public sector staff — Privacy activists said a diverse group of organisations and individuals had endorsed a representation to the Prime Minister's Office … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to buy UK-based robotic process automation software startup Softomotive — Microsoft Corp. is in talks to buy Softomotive Ltd., a U.K.-based startup that makes software robots to automate tasks, according to people familiar with the matter.| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
House Judiciary Committee demands Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing on Amazon's alleged misuse of third-party seller data or face a potential subpoena — A top House committee investigating the tech industry has asked him to agree to appear or face a potential subpoena if he declines
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| Sirin Kale / WIRED UK: |
An inside look at the dropshipping scene in Bali, where expats typically purchase items on AliExpress and have them shipped directly to buyers in the West — In Bali, western immigrants are selling products they've never handled, from countries they've never visited, to consumers they've never met
Tweets: @ramit, @thedalstonyears, and @gregwilliams718
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Bangalore-based education app Byju's is in talks to raise up to $400M at $10B valuation, up from a valuation of $8B in February — Byju's, an education learning startup in India that has seen a surge in its popularity in recent weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak … | George Chidi / CoinDesk: |
Bitfinex's parent firm has applied for subpoenas in three US states asking federal courts to aid in recovering $800M+ in user funds seized by legal authorities — The Bitfinex crypto exchange is making a new push to find and potentially recover more than $800 million in user funds seized … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Profile of Canada-based Draganfly, which is piloting “pandemic drones” that use machine vision and AI to track social distancing and monitor health vitals — Like the rest of the world, Canadian drone maker Draganfly has been anxiously watching the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
How researchers are working to build AI with common-sense reasoning, such as the COMET system, which combines symbolic reasoning and neural language modeling — The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years.
Tweets: @quantamagazine and @mslima
| Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: |
Google's Messages app, which isn't part of Google's apps package often pre-installed on phones by 3rd-party Android OEMs, passes 1B+ installs on the Play Store — Google's Messages app is packed with features, including a built-in markup tool, reminders, context-aware recommendations, a dark mode, RCS support, and a web interface.
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish: |
Apple has missed an opportunity by not introducing a product like Facebook Portal by combining different aspects of the Apple TV and HomePod with FaceTime — Apple TV should own the living room with FaceTime. And the Facebook Portal market with HomePod. And yet...
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @500ish, and @msliwinski
| Synergy Research Group: |
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, cloud infrastructure spending grew 37% YoY to $29B in Q1, with Amazon at 32% market share followed by Microsoft at 18% — New data from Synergy Research Group shows that Q1 spend on cloud infrastructure services reached $29 billion, up 37% from the first quarter of 2019.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Federal judge rules that Uber must face a lawsuit claiming its anticompetitive practices stifled competition, and drove Sidecar out of business — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc was ordered by a U.S. judge on Friday to face a lawsuit claiming its illegal predatory pricing … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, FedEx, Target, and Walmart join together in striking on May 1, demanding better workplace safety conditions — Demands include better cleaning services and 14-day shutdowns at affected locations — On May 1st, workers from Amazon, Whole Foods …
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