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June 14, 2020, 5:55 PM

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Nathan Baschez / Divinations:
Apple is building an OS for health to become a chokepoint that all healthcare players, from providers to device makers, must integrate with to get distribution  —  Apple is building an operating system for health  —  This essay was co-authored by Rob Litterst and Nathan Baschez
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Google apologizes for a glitch that made a picture of Winston Churchill disappear from his Knowledge Graph entry  —  This content is likely not relevant anymore.  Try searching or browse recent questions.  —  Get Link Report Abuse  —  Winston Churchill's Image Removed in UK/US Search Results
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
GitHub CEO says company is working to replace the name “master” for the default version of source code repositories with a more neutral term  —  GitHub getting on board legitimizes movement aimed at removing racially-charged language from software.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: at its current pace, Quibi will sign up fewer than 2M paying subscribers by the end of its first year, well under its original target of 7.4M  —  Two veteran executives with contrasting styles are launching Quibi, an on-the-go streaming service, during a pandemic
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Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
In leaked letters, House Judiciary asks Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook to say by Sunday whether their CEOs will testify in antitrust hearings in July  —  House antitrust investigators are pressing Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook to say by Sunday whether their CEOs will testify …
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Vietnam-based Propzy, a full-stack real estate service with an online marketplace for listings, raises $25M Series A led by Gaw Capital, SoftBank Ventures Asia  —  Propzy, a Vietnam-based startup that guides consumers through the entire process of a real estate transaction …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft is aware of a bug affecting Windows 10 PCs with a printer connected via USB that renders the USB port unusable; patch is coming in a future OS update  —  Windows 10 users are reporting that they are unable to print using devices from multiple vendors after installing updates …
Robert P. Baird / New Yorker:
How a philanthropic COVID-19 testing effort by Utah tech companies like Nomi Health and Domo became a commercial enterprise, despite questions about performance  —  At a White House briefing, on April 23rd, Mike Pence offered what he described as “encouraging news” about covid-19 testing.
Katie Paul / Reuters:
reddit:
Well known Apple leaker Fudge on four stages of Mac transition to ARM, which started with the T1 chip and may soon enter stage three with a new 12" MacBook  —  Today, I would like to further elaborate on that. … Apple is very likely going to switch to switch their CPU platform …

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