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| Yoko Kubota / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple pushes back production of flagship iPhones coming later this year by about a month, as the pandemic weakens demand and disrupts manufacturing — The phones, some with 5G connectivity, will vary in price and come in three sizes — Apple Inc. is pushing back the production ramp …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Interviews and documents show Europe's GDPR rules have been stymied by a lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources, and tech companies stalling — Nearly two years in, there has been little enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation, once seen as ushering in a new era.
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| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
Germany says it will adopt a decentralized approach to digital contact tracing backed by Apple and Google, abandoning its home-grown alternative — BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany changed course on Sunday over which type of smartphone technology it wanted to use to trace coronavirus infections … | Neha Alawadhi / Business Standard: |
WhatsApp says there has been a 70% reduction in the number of highly forwarded messages sent after its new forwarding limit was enforced — Earlier this month, WhatsApp limited the number of times a frequently forwarded message can be sent further to only one chat at a time
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| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
How Magic Leap failed to miniaturize tech used in its early, stunning demos, which wooed high-profile investors, leading to an unspectacular consumer product — Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel … | Bloomberg: |
Australia launches a contact-tracing app that records digital handshakes between smartphones via Bluetooth, sees 1.1M signups within a few hours — - Software records digital handshake between smartphones — Tracking app needs to overcome privacy concerns to succeed| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Reliance and Facebook pilot JioMart e-commerce orders via WhatsApp in three cities in Maharashtra, India, partnering with 1,200 grocery stores — JioMart, an e-commerce venture run by India's most valued firm, is testing an “ordering system” on WhatsApp, teasing the first peek … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Codota, which offers an AI tool for developers to autocomplete strings of code, raises $12M Series A led by e.ventures, bringing its total raised to $16M — Thanks to smartphones and their downsized keyboards, autocomplete has become a nearly ubiquitous feature of how we write these days.| Financial Times: |
US startups and big companies like PwC are making contact tracing apps to track staff in reopened facilities, some incorporating data from Bluetooth wearables — Tools could track movement of office workers to within a few centimetres — Companies including PwC, the global consultancy …
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Protocol. Tweets: @sedyst, @mshannahmurphy, @frances_coppola, @went1955, @hypervisible, @lukolejnik, @chrissyfarr, @seanmmcdonald, @carnage4life, @meadwaj, and @privacymatters
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE — He's stepped up to lead the war against COVID-19 — “I didn't know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the business.”
Tweets: @paulg, @thogge, @scottbelsky, @dflieb, @joshconstine, @mgcardamone, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app's old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more — Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they're so difficult to detect.| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Teams that could have been exploited by hackers to hijack accounts by sending malicious links or GIFs — Microsoft has addressed a vulnerability that could have been exploited by hackers to hijack Microsoft Teams accounts by sending specially crafted links …
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