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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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Tweets: @wsj, @tomwarren, @markgurman, @northmantrader, @laurengoode, and @adrianweckler
| Bloomberg: |
Australia launches a contact-tracing app that records digital handshakes between smartphones via Bluetooth, seeing 1.1M signups within a few hours — - Software records digital handshake between smartphones — Tracking app needs to overcome privacy concerns to succeed
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| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
UK's NHS says it's making a contact tracing app that uses a centralized approach, giving it more insight into COVID-19's spread than Apple and Google's approach — The UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app is set to use a different model to the one proposed by Apple and Google, despite concerns raised about privacy and performance.
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| Douglas Busvine / Reuters: |
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| New York Times: |
Many tech startups are successfully applying for loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, often to extend their runways despite already raising large sums — Some young companies have turned to the government loans not for day-to-day survival but simply to buy useful time.
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PYMNTS.com and CNBC
Tweets: @nick_farina, @dmccabe, @nytimesbusiness, @cnbc, and @robertmaguire_
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
As COVID-19 decimates the global economy, tech giants have a unique opportunity to expand their power, crush rivals, and improve their political fortunes — The global pandemic gives Silicon Valley titans a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand their power, crush rivals and change their political fortunes.
Tweets: @byheatherlong, @reedalbergotti, and @dhh
| CNN: |
Baseless YouTube conspiracy videos, embraced by CCP media and uploaded to WeChat, Weibo, claim a US Army reservist started the pandemic and are ruining her life — Maatje Benassi, a US Army reservist and mother of two, has become the target of conspiracy theorists who falsely place …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Josh Constine says he's leaving TechCrunch after 8.5 years to join VC fund SignalFire as their head of content and a principal investor — How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love.
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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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Brave Browser, TechCrunch, and The Irish Times
Tweets: @matthausk, @paultang, @mattbilinsky, @piracybydesign, @nytimes, @1br0wn, @nytimesbusiness, @johnnyryan, @1br0wn, @counternotions, and @satariano
| 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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CyberArk, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, Dark Reading, Petri, Neowin, infosecurity-magazine.com, Input, Computer Business Review, BetaNews, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, HackRead, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, WinBuzzer, BBC, and Threatpost. Tweets: @dinodaizovi
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Review of Google's second-generation $179 wireless Pixel Buds: sound quality has improved, but their silicone “stabilizer arc” can cause discomfort over time — Google's new earbuds finally go truly wireless and have improved sound quality — Google's original Pixel Buds came …
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CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Laptop Mag, Android Police, Engadget, YouTube, Android Authority, Droid Life, Android Central, Tom's Guide, and Gotta Be Mobile
Tweets: @chriswelch, @backlon, @backlon, @backlon, and @dcseifert
| 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 … | 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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TechCrunch, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, BGR, TechSpot, Android Central, Firstpost Tech, 9to5Google, BBC, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, MediaNama, Engadget, and CNET
Tweets: @damiancollins, @fabiochiusi, @alnehaa, and @sumitkashyapjha
| David Pierce / Protocol: |
A look at video conferencing startups like Shindig, Remotion, and Whereby that are challenging the tech giants by focusing on niche features and services — Videoconferencing has gone from novelty to niche to necessity in record time. But while a handful of tech giants dominate, with Zoom …
Tweets: @pierce
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter turned off the ability to receive tweet alerts via SMS messages in most countries last week — The ability to receive tweet notifications has been disabled — For the most part, you can no longer use Twitter as it was originally built to be used: over text message.
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DansDeals.com and Neowin
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
As the pandemic halts filming, ad agencies are increasingly turning towards digitally altered, deepfake-style ads that repurpose old footage for new uses — With the pandemic having shut down production, companies are asking ad agencies to create commercials made up of digitally altered footage.
Tweets: @tiffkhsu, @joshsternberg, @edbott, @changeist, and @kerrymflynn
| Reuters: |
Amazon says it is testing a video conference system to verify the identities of new merchants, used by 1,000+ applicants in the US, UK, China, and Japan so far — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is piloting the use of video conference calls to verify the identity of merchants who wish …
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The Verge, GeekWire, The Daily Dot, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, and TechRadar.com
| Abby Ohlheiser / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the ways medical professionals are using TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube to combat COVID-19 misinformation and the challenges they face as influencers — When President Trump suggested during a press conference that doctors should look into treating covid-19 patients with an … Sponsor Posts
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