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Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and VP at Amazon, resigns after nearly six years, criticizing the company on his blog for firing protesting workers — Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been …
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Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, 10th-gen Intel CPUs, double the SSD storage, and faster RAM, available to order today starting at $1,299 — Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever …
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Microsoft says there's been a 75% YoY jump in time spent in Windows 10, and Windows 10X, originally pitched for dual-screen devices, is coming first to laptops — More people are turning to Windows PCs during the pandemic — Microsoft is confirming today that it's planning to refocus Windows 10X on single-screen devices.
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Apple and Google release sample code, UI screenshots, and detailed policies for COVID-19 exposure notification apps — Apple and Google are providing additional resources for developers working with the first version of their Exposure Notification API, the development tools the companies …
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Intel says it is buying the urban mobility platform Moovit for approximately $900M — On the heels of a spate of reports over the weekend, today Intel confirmed its latest move to grow its automotive division: the chip giant is acquiring Moovit, an Israeli startup previously backed by Intel … | William Foxley / CoinDesk: |
NEAR, a blockchain project for running dapps, says it closed a $21.6M token sale led by a16z — NEAR, a blockchain project for running decentralized applications (dapps), announced Monday the closing of a $21.6 million token sale led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
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PE firm Silver Lake announces it will invest $747M in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, giving it a valuation of $65B, weeks after Facebook invested $5.7B — Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Robinhood raises $280M Series F led by Sequoia Capital valuing the company at $8.3B and says it's added 3M funded accounts since the beginning of the year — The popular stock-picking app Robinhood announced on Monday it raised a Series F funding round that will see the company valued at $8.3 billion.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Poynter Institute launches a COVID-19 chatbot on WhatsApp that uses information from 100+ independent fact-checkers in 70+ countries to debunk falsehoods — You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . — Poynter Institute … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon, Flipkart, Ola, and Uber say they are resuming some services in India's “green” and “orange” zones, covering 82% of the country's 733 districts — E-commerce firms Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart, and ride-hailing giants Ola and Uber are partially resuming …
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Filipino Onel de Guzman, author of the Love Bug worm that infected millions of PCs in May 2000, talks about his creation and claims he regrets writing it — The man behind the world's first major computer virus outbreak has admitted his guilt, 20 years after his software infected millions of machines worldwide.
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Nvidia acquires Cumulus Networks, which offers a Linux distribution for networking hardware and had previously raised a total of $134M — Nvidia today announced its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, an open-source centric company that specializes in helping enterprises optimize their data center networking stack.| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
The pandemic forced many restaurants to pivot to food delivery, which will make them more reliant on services like DoorDash, GrubHub even after lockdowns lift — Social distancing is pushing restaurants toward delivery-only models powered by tech platforms — Bua Vanitsthian says she's always been passionate about food.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Tokopedia, Indonesia's largest e-commerce site, is investigating the alleged leak of 91M account details, which are being sold online for as little as $5,000 — A hacker is selling a database containing the information of 91 million Tokopedia accounts on a dark web market for as little as $5,000.| VICE: |
TikTok stars, many of them young and holding down other jobs, are struggling to make money, despite millions of views, due to a lack of monetization tools — This story is part of the VICE guide to 2030. Reach more here. — Keondra is 20 years old, lives in St. Paul, Minnesota …
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| Carl Miller / BBC: |
Investigation by BBC and ISD think tank into the COVID-19 “infodemic” on Facebook finds right-wing misinformation had far more interactions than the WHO and CDC — “What if [they] are trying to kill off as many people as possible” reads one Facebook post.Sponsor Posts
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