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| Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the symbiotic ties of anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists with mainstream YouTubers, as the platform tries to regulate misinformation — Covid-19 conspiracy theorists are still getting millions of views on YouTube, even as the platform cracks down on health misinformation.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
NewsGuard report: Twitter is failing to clamp down on COVID-19 misinformation “superspreaders”, including some verified accounts with over 100,000 followers — Posts from high-profile accounts found to be promoting questionable virus therapies and cures| BuzzFeed News: |
In filing, Clearview AI says it is canceling client accounts not associated with law enforcement or other government entities, amid mounting scrutiny — Clearview AI — the controversial face-tracking company known for scraping more than 3 billion photos from social media sites including Facebook …
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CNET, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, IT Management, Engadget, and Mashable
Tweets: @rmac18, @carolineha_, @maggie_mcneill, @conmijente, and @evan_greer
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google brings all of its messaging and communication apps under a single team to be led by Javier Soltero, who is VP and GM of G Suite — Integration isn't on the roadmap, but coherency may be — In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite …
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9to5Google, Neowin, Android Headlines, XDA Developers, and Android Authority
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person startup, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls, the first acquisition in the company's nine-year history — - Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person start-up in New York, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls.
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Zoom Blog, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, Gizmodo, Fortune, Laptop Mag, The Block, coinspeaker.com, MediaNama, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, and Reuters
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
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| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Samsung says it will launch a debit card in partnership with fintech startup SoFi, this summer — Samsung Pay will help you do more with your money this year. — Source: Android Central — What you need to know — To elevate the Samsung Pay experience, Samsung is partnering with SoFi to launch an “innovative” debit card.
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| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty” — Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google expands Read Along, its Android app that uses AI to help children read via verbal and visual feedback in nine languages, from India to 180+ countries — Google today launched Read Along, an Android app that taps AI and machine learning to help children learn to read by providing verbal and visual feedback.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google updates its Lens app for iOS and Android to let users copy and paste some handwritten text to Chrome, read text aloud, and provide information on words — If you handwriting is neat enough — Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool.
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| Frank X. Shaw / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft communications VP, Frank Shaw, says Amazon has filed another protest against Microsoft's JEDI deal, this time out of public view, directly with DoD — Many years ago when I was on active duty as a Marine officer in the 1980s, I went through cold weather training carrying …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners says it will invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio Platforms, which would give it a 2.32% stake, valuing the telco firm at $65B — Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A researcher found NSO Group's contact tracing system, codenamed “Fleming”, unprotected on the Internet, NSO says system was a demo, hence not a security lapse — As countries work to reopen after weeks of lockdown, contact-tracing apps help to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus strain, COVID-19.
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BeInCrypto. Tweets: @campuscodi, @malwarejake, @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post: |
Citizen Lab: WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being viewed by Chinese accounts — Research group Citizen Lab finds WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being received by Chinese accounts Findings are likely …
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The Citizen Lab, Washington Post, WRAL TechWire, Politico, The Citizen Lab, CBC News, and Tech Xplore
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A Facebook SDK crash caused iOS apps like TikTok and Venmo to crash on Wednesday, showing the need for Apple to sandbox third-party SDKs from an app's own code — Facebook's near-ubiquitous SDK broke yesterday, taking major mobile apps with it — Sometime around 6:30PM ET on May 6th …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought — The attempts seem to be experiments that were quickly abandoned, and none of those identified received substantial engagement.
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| Charlie Wood / Business Insider: |
Sonos cofounder calls out Spotify CEO's criticism of Apple, says it's “significantly more difficult to work within Spotify's ‘closed’ ecosystem than Apple's” — - The cofounder of smart speaker firm Sonos called out Spotify CEO Daniel Ek for his remarks on Apple's closed ecosystem.| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at how JD.com and Alibaba's Taobao in China used livestreaming to help farmers engage with their customers and sell more products amid COVID-19 — When coronavirus ground the country to a halt, the agricultural industry could no longer sell its produce. E-commerce giants used the chance to bring the sector online.| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue of $3.54B, up 14% YoY, gross bookings of $15.8B, up 8%, net loss of $2.9B; rides gross bookings fell 5%, Eats bookings were up 52% YoY — - Ride-hailing giant Uber reports first-quarter results Thursday after the bell. — This week, Uber laid off about 14% …
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TechCrunch, Protocol, Uber, coinspeaker.com, Inc42 Media, Quartz, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, and TheStreet
Tweets: @ryan_browne_, @litcapital, @studtrader_ag, @stevekovach, @cnbc, @biaus, @lorakolodny, and @daveleeft
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook will begin to open most of its offices on July 6 but says most employees will be given the choice to continue to work from home through the end of 2020 — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday will announce that most of the company's employees will be given the choice to continue …
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CNET and Business Insider
Tweets: @caseynewton, @chloemeyere, @threddyrex, @tprophet, @trinadelasuerte, @stevetex, @hshaban, @moorehn, @adamsinger, @carlquintanilla, @reybango, and @jorilallo. Thanks:@sal19
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