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Sources: UK's NHS has already begun developing a second contact tracing app, using Google and Apple's contact tracing APIs — NHS team that built first app is told to build another on Apple-Google system — The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace the spread of the coronavirus …
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| Wired: |
States like NY, CA, MA, and cities like Baltimore and SF are skeptical about tech-based contact tracing, instead hiring thousands for manual contact tracing — Silicon Valley companies have proposed automating the arduous task of identifying people potentially exposed to Covid-19. They're finding few takers.
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| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Apple to begin reopening US stores next week using safety measures like temperature checks, starting with some stores in Idaho, S. Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska — Apple is preparing to reopen a select number of retail stores in the United States next week.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Facebook says it plans to complete the rollout of its redesigned desktop website to all users over the “next few weeks” — After the better part of a year, Facebook has started rolling out its redesigned desktop website to all of its users. The company announced today it plans …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds a kid-friendly “family mode” to Duo and says Duo on the web will soon support group calls, starting as a preview on Chrome — Work and personal video calling are surging in light of COVID-19, with Google announcing a handful of new Duo features last month to support that demand.
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| TechCrunch: |
Target to acquire technology and assets of same-day delivery startup Deliv, which has raised a total of $80M in venture capital according to Crunchbase — Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning to add cursor support to Office for iPad by the fall — Microsoft is already working on latest iPadOS features — Microsoft is planning to update Office for iPad with support for Apple's latest iPadOS trackpad and mouse support.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract — Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues.
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| Bloomberg: |
Google says it expects most of its staff to work from home until 2021 — Elon Musk wants people to return to work. Google and Facebook Inc. have another message for their staff: get ready to stay home for all of 2020. — Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive officer …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Dropbox reports first quarterly profit since IPO, with Q1 net income of $39.3M and sales up 18% YoY to $455M; paying customers rose to 14.6M from 13.2M in 2019 — Dropbox Inc. reported its first-ever net income, in a quarter when demand for cloud software was bolstered by a shift to working from home.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
IT services provider Cognizant says it expects to lose between $50M and $70M in Q2 due to a ransomware attack in April, from which it has now fully recovered — Cognizant says April ransomware incident will negatively impact Q2 revenue. — IT services provider Cognizant said in an earnings call … | CNN: |
Twitter disputes US State Department claims that it was “highly probable” that China coordinated networks of Twitter accounts to disseminate COVID-19 disinfo — (CNN)Twitter pushed back on an assertion from the US State Department Friday that it was “highly probable” … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Uber CEO says drivers should earn health-care benefits commensurate with the hours they work and Uber is prepared to create a system to pay for those benefits — - Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said drivers should earn health-care benefits commensurate with the hours they work.| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
WHO plans to launch a COVID-19 symptom app globally this month and is considering a contact tracing feature, with the app's open source code released on GitHub — OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to launch an app this month to enable people …
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| Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer.net: |
Interview with Xbox Series X development lead Jason Ronald, on the console's power and price, its new boot screen, giving developers creative control, and more — Jason Ronald's job title is partner director of program management for the Xbox platform team, but what that somewhat robotic label boils …
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
The pandemic is forcing tech companies to rethink open-floor plans as they prepare to reopen offices in the coming weeks and months — When the headquarters of Mission Bio reopens next week, employees will find many of the familiar perks they enjoyed before Silicon Valley went into lockdown have changed.| Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc / DealStreetAsia: |
South Korean online grocery delivery startup Kurly raises ~$160M Series E led by DST Global, bringing its total raised to $328M — South Korean online grocery delivery startup Kurly has raised 200 billion won ($160 million) in a Series E funding round led by DST Global, according to the company's statement.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Zeus, a long-term corporate housing marketplace, raises $15M from existing investors, halving the company's valuation to ~$110M from December round — - Housing startup raises $15 million at about $110 million value — Raised new money from backers CEAS, Initialized and Soros
Tweets: @livcarville
| 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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Tweets: @alexstamos, @jaycuthrell, @jason, @yuanfenyang, @evacide, @mountain_ghosts, @leolaporte, @thegrugq, and @pinboard
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