A text string in the Sindhi language can crash iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Watch when devices receive a notification with it; bug seems to be fixed in iOS 13.4.5 beta
Every so often, a bug in iOS emerges where a certain string of text will cause your iPhone or iPad to crash.
Nintendo says 160K Nintendo accounts have been breached since the beginning of April using credentials obtained illegally by “some means other than our service”
The issues started at the beginning of April — Nintendo is disabling the ability to log into a Nintendo Account through …
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson to step down, President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1
- AT&T announced CEO Randall Stephenson will retire and President and COO John Stankey will take over the position on July 1. — The transition comes at a tough …
FCC adopts a proposal that opens the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, freeing up more than 1,200MHz of additional bandwidth for next-gen Wi-Fi 6E devices
The unanimous decision opens 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for Wi-Fi 6E devices that are expected to begin arriving this year.
Internal documents: Google plans to cut its marketing budget by as much as 50% for the second half of the year and freeze hiring of marketing employees
- The company is planning to slash its marketing budgets by as much as half, according to internal documents viewed by CNBC.
Apple says it found no evidence of hackers exploiting the newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad
- It saw no immediate threat to users after investigating — Hundreds of millions worldwide use Apple's mobile devices — Apple Inc. said it found …
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process
- Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
Federal court officially approves the $5B settlement Facebook reached with the FTC last July
Now it's official. — Now, it's Facebook official. The social network said a federal court on Thursday officially approved a settlement Facebook reached with the US Federal Trade Commission …
Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange
San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase announced today the release of Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange.
Leaked images from 2019 show Google considered a feature that let users tip money to websites like Wired or NYT as part of its Contributor program
Leaked images obtained by TechCrunch reveal that Google considered and designed a feature that would let people donate money to websites …
Sources: Zuckerberg suspended the push to introduce ads to WhatsApp partly to avoid antagonizing regulators but also to avoid angering privacy-conscious users
Worried about angering regulators and wanting to prioritize a broader integration of its services, Facebook pulled back last year …
Slack says it will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, will continue to pay contractors and hourly workers their regular wages
- Slack will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, and is committed to continue paying its employees …
Expedia names Peter Kern, previously vice chairman, to CEO; Eric Hart to become CFO as the company faces a ~40% dip in stock price in 2020
Bloomberg :
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $19.83B, up 23% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $6.99B, up 42.7% YoY; stock is down 3%+
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Amazon confirms a major outbreak of COVID-19 at a NJ warehouse after employee says 30+ are infected, as Amazon is set to end unlimited unpaid time off April 30
- Over 30 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Carteret, New Jersey, have contracted COVID-19, according to sources at the facility.
Facebook adds knowledge library and alerting service to Workplace, says the tool is well placed to support remote work during pandemic
With more people switching to working from home amid the COVID-19 lockdowns, Facebook is adding some new features to its professional Workplace platform …
Tech companies cut hiring, with analysts seeing ~20% drops in job openings between mid-March and mid-April, steep drops in supply chain logistics and delivery
- Despite the massive shift to remote work and the surge in demand for certain online services, the tech industry has seen a widespread drawdown in job listings. Tweets: @carnage4life . Thanks: @mattr...
Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19
People who've lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the minimum wage. Tweets: @sesmith and @scottthurm Tweets: S.E. ...
Facebook removes “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people after report that the category contained more than 78M people
Aaron Sankin / The Markup :
Israel's parliament blocks extension of emergency measures to use phone location data to enforce quarantine past this week
How IT companies in India transitioned 4M employees to work remotely, including by moving desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes
IT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multiple thousands at such short notice. Tweets: @omkar_raii Tweets:...
Boston Dynamics says its quadruped Spot robot is in use at one Boston hospital for remote triage of patients suspected of having COVID-19
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Researchers from Apple and CMU detail a system for AI-enabled smart home devices to interpret events in their environments by listening to ambient noise
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Report: EU commissioner says Tim Cook told him Apple and Google's contact tracing API will be available to developers from April 28
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : Source: Les Echos .
Binance launches Bundle, a no-fee social payments app for users in Africa, starting in Nigeria with support for the naira, bitcoin, binance coin, and BUSD
Paddy Baker / CoinDesk :
Bakkt CEO Mike Blandina is stepping down 4 months after taking the role and will be replaced by David Clifton, VP of M&A and integration at parent company ICE
Paddy Baker / CoinDesk :
Nextdoor and Walmart launch Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a feature that lets vulnerable users get shopping help from neighbors planning a Walmart trip
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Digits comes out of stealth with a $22M Series B led by GV and launches a free AI-powered expense monitoring dashboard for small businesses
10k businesses have signed up to try the product! Excited to see the team onboard more customers and offer Expenses, their first product, for free. 🚀 https://techcrunch.com/... Ari Levy / @levynews : ...
The coronavirus is accelerating the shift to automation, chatbots, and AI in the call center industry and threatening jobs
Financial Times : Tweets: @chupchap , @ron_miller , and @johnreedwrites Tweets: NTB / @chupchap : Most of the companies are working on low hanging fruits even now. 1. Categorisation with AI and routi...
Instacart says it plans to hire 250K more shoppers and extends availability of COVID-19 sick pay for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch :
Researcher finds 29,463 employees were laid off from 292 tech companies between March 11 and April 21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
the worst numbers since the Great Depression. This is an unprecedented economic crisis that will require unprecedented solutions. Let's give $2000/month to people who are struggling. https://www.cnbc....
Snap to raise $750M through a private-placement debt offering, along with an option for buyers to purchase up to an additional $112.5M of convertible securities
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Google launches a Watchlist feature for Search to help users keep track of TV shows and movies
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
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.