Apple and Google confirm contact tracing update will work on devices running iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play and say only health authorities can access API
Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …
Amazon fires two tech workers who'd been warned for publicly criticizing its warehouse workplace conditions and were outspoken critics of its climate stance
The workers had been outspoken critics of the e-commerce giant's climate policies and were previously warned about making public comments about its business
ESRB, the organization that rates the content of video games, announces a new label for games that offer in-game purchases of loot boxes or other similar items
It's an additional descriptor to the ‘In-Game Purchases’ label introduced in 2018 — The Entertainment Software Rating Board …
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
but it doesn't have to be creepy Vass Bednar / regs to riches : #6 — This is a newsletter about regulatory hacking featuring (mostly) Canadian startups. Xinmei Shen / Abacus : From QR codes to socia...
Sources: Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor that will power Pixel smartphones as soon as next year and future Chromebooks
Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel smartphone as soon as next year …
Credentials for 500,000+ Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each and, in some cases, given away for free
Over 500 hundred thousand Zoom accounts are being sold on the dark web and hacker forums for less than a penny each, and in some cases, given away for free.
NHSX will test an app for users to send a “yellow alert” if they self-diagnose with COVID-19 symptoms and a “red alert” if they test positive to recent contacts
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OnePlus debuts $699 OnePlus 8, $899 OnePlus 8 Pro with high-refresh 6.55" and 6.78" hole-punch screens, wireless charging, WiFi 6, on-screen fingerprint reader
As the world is in quarantine, smartphone companies aren't standing still and are still moving forward with their new product launches.
Amazon to hire 75,000 workers, on top of the 100,000 new positions from last month; third-party sellers can ship some “nonessential” items to Amazon this week
Tech giant's planned hiring of 175,000 workers to help it handle surge in orders during pandemic
OnePlus 8 Pro review: great build quality, superb screen, and speedy wireless charging, but its color camera is gimmicky and dim light photography is mediocre
The best flagship of 2020, even if it is more expensive Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo : OnePlus 8 Review: This Is the Android Phone for Most People Ryne Hager / Android Police : OnePlus 8 Pro review: The f...
Amazon says it will put new online grocery delivery customers on a waitlist and prioritize existing customers amid surging demand
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Starting April 18, Zoom will allow paying customers to opt in or out of specific data center regions after some calls were inadvertently routed through China
Free users can't change their region, but data won't be routed through China — Zoom will let paying customers pick …
Chinese government data: iPhone shipments jumped 19% YoY in March to 2.5M, while overall smartphone sales, including Android devices, fell ~22% to 21M
- China's phone market continued decline, official data show — Foxconn production back to normal levels in late March
Apple responds to Democratic senators' letter on the privacy of its COVID-19 tools, saying the tools are not subject to HIPAA rules but don't collect user data
Apple Inc. responded to Democratic Senators who sent a letter to Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with questions related …
Facebook debuts Kit, an experimental Apple Watch app, for one-tap communication with close friends via audio recording, emoji, location sharing, scribble, more
Facebook's internal R&D group has today launched a new app that lets you keep up with your close friends via your Apple Watch.
SoftBank forecasts a $7B net loss for the year ending in March, due to coronavirus and losses related to WeWork, and expects an operating loss of $12.5B
then its share price pumped TechCrunch : SoftBank expects $24 billion in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb investments Sam Nussey / Reuters : SoftBank shares fall 3.5% after flagging first fi...
Sources: Apple is planning an iPad Pro-like design with flat edges and a smaller notch for iPhones, a smaller, cheaper HomePod, and Apple Tags for the fall
Bloomberg :
As the coronavirus pandemic threatens to unravel Airbnb's business, some question whether CEO Brian Chesky can shift focus from new pursuits to preserving cash
The founder of the travel rental site has spent more than a decade building the company into one of the world's most influential startups. Tweets: @mdudas , @amir , @davidsacks , @coryweinberg , @alex...
VC firm Lightspeed raises $4B across three funds: $890M and $1.83B for early and later stage funds, respectively, and a $1.5B fund for doubling down on winners
Covering venture capital, software and startups — Investor Bejul Somaia is used to flying from India to Silicon Valley on a monthly basis. Tweets: @mdudas and @alexrkonrad . Thanks: @helenaspopkin T...
Report: in Q1 2020, 62 VC funds raised a total of $21B in the US despite the pandemic crisis and invested $34.2B in 27% fewer deals than a year earlier
The spreading coronavirus pandemic has slammed tech startups, forcing dozens to shed thousands of jobs.
Instagram updates its IGTV app with a hands-free recording mode, a Discover tab, and a redesigned homepage featuring a recommended creator at the top
Though long overshadowed by Instagram's … Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott : Instagram's IGTV App Just Got a Massive Upgrade Mahit Huilgol / iPhone Hacks : Instagram Updates IGTV with New Discover Tab, Brings...
Reddit's new transparency hub discloses the identities of its political advertisers since Jan. 2019, how they target users, and amount spent on each campaign
Cristiano Lima / Politico :
MIT's Dream Lab is developing open source wearable devices to track and interact with dreams in order to boost creativity and treat trauma
that semilucid state between wakefulness and sleep where thoughts untether from reality and begin to get dreamy. http://read.medium.com/hPUaE3z
Beyond Identity, which aims to provide passwordless identity management requiring no change to security infrastructures, raises $30M Series A led by KDT and NEA
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Binance adds Bitcoin options trading to its mobile app, six months after adding futures trading, as it looks to widen its lead in the Bitcoin derivatives market
Colin Harper / Decrypt :
Bitmain wins legal case against the 2nd-largest Bitcoin mining pool Poolin, which it previously owned, with court ruling Poolin cofounders violated non-competes
Decrypt : Tweets: @decryptmedia Tweets: Decrypt / @decryptmedia : The second largest Bitcoin mining pool Poolin now has to return $123,000 to its former owner Bitmain and pay $173,000 in fines. https...
Leak shows ByteDance is recruiting people for 10K open positions, of which about a third are high-level tech jobs, and aims to hire 40K new jobs in 2020
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : Tweets: @mhbergen Tweets: Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : “The world's largest startup is recruiting people for 10,000 open positions” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
As the COVID-19 pandemic shuts down large parts of the global economy, geospatial analytics companies are tracking food supplies via satellites, drones, more
Anuradha Raghu / Bloomberg :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.