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Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees — Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy — SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail Twitter's struggle to control employee account access: multiple warnings to Dorsey since 2015, bogus help requests used to snoop, and more — - Dorsey, Twitter's board warned repeatedly, ex-employees say — Company says 1,500 staff and contractors can access user data| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies — - CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China
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Jeff Bezos has taken a hands-off approach to Washington, staying above the fray, but that changes with his first-ever Congressional testimony on Wednesday — The chief executive, who testifies before Congress for the first time on Wednesday, had taken a hands-off approach with lawmakers in Washington.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Garmin says a ransomware attack occurred on July 23 but there's “no indication” customer data was stolen, expects to return to normal operation in a few days — Sport and fitness tech giant Garmin has confirmed its five-day outage was caused by a ransomware attack.
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| Matt Johnston / iTnews: |
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent — This time over expanded use of personal data. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken aim at Google …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa app gets revamped, adding more personalization options and replacing 3rd-party skill suggestions on the main screen with frequently used actions — After launching a number of new developer tools for Alexa last week, Amazon today introducing an updated version of its Alexa mobile app for consumers.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Inside Facebook's “AI red team”, which hacks its own AI systems to stay ahead of outside attackers and better understand vulnerabilities and blind spots — Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative.
Tweets: @krishnan, @nxthompson, and @wired
| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Match Group names ex-CBS Interactive boss Jim Lanzone as Tinder's new CEO, beginning August 3 — Match Group's flagship dating app is navigating changes to online dating during the Covid-19 pandemic — Match Group Inc. MTCH 1.56% is naming a new chief executive for the company's flagship dating app Tinder …
Tweets: @sarafischer, @jlanzone, @joshelman, and @bgurley
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at work-from-home trends: rise of “desktop as a service”, purpose-built hardware for remote communication, and more investment in home office equipment — Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Ro, a telemedicine startup that caters to the uninsured, raises $200M led by General Catalyst valuing it at $1.5B and says it has hit $250M in annual revenue — - Ro wants to build the “Shopify for health care,” beginning by catering to patients without insurance who want to pay for health care without an in-person doctor's visit.| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm announces Quick Charge 5, refueling smartphone batteries to 50% in five minutes and 100% in 15, likely to start showing up over the next few months — Wireless recharging has become increasingly popular over the past few years due to its convenience — just drop your phone on a pad …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Samsung's trailer for its August 5 Unpacked event seems to confirm the launch of Galaxy Buds Live, Note20, Watch 3, Z Fold 2, and Tab S7 — Samsung is preparing to launch a slew of new products on August 5th and, now, the company has put out a teaser which essentially confirms which devices are arriving at the event.Sponsor Posts
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