A look at the symbiotic ties of anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 conspiracy theorists with mainstream YouTubers, as the platform tries to regulate misinformation
Covid-19 conspiracy theorists are still getting millions of views on YouTube, even as the platform cracks down on health misinformation.
Sources: Microsoft is planning to add cursor support to Office for iPad by the fall
Microsoft is already working on latest iPadOS features — Microsoft is planning to update Office for iPad with support for Apple's latest iPadOS trackpad and mouse support.
Sources: UK's NHS has already begun developing a second contact tracing app in parallel, using Google and Apple's contact tracing APIs
NHS team that built first app is told to build another on Apple-Google system — The NHS has already begun building a second smartphone app to trace …
Zoom reaches agreement with NY AG over security concerns; Zoom agrees to maintain security protocols, including protections for students, admits no wrongdoing
- Zoom reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General Letitia James' office Thursday, closing the state's inquiry …
Samsung says it will launch a debit card in partnership with fintech startup SoFi, this summer
Samsung Pay will help you do more with your money this year. — Source: Android Central — What you need to know — To elevate the Samsung Pay experience, Samsung is partnering with SoFi to launch a...
Target to acquire technology and assets of same-day delivery startup Deliv, which has raised a total of $80M in venture capital according to Crunchbase
Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv
Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person startup, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls, the first acquisition in the company's nine-year history
but for real this time Michael McSweeney / The Block : Zoom acquires Keybase as it seeks to enhance video platform privacy Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk : Zoom Seeks to Deflect Privacy, Security Concerns...
Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract
Microsoft and Amazon are at it again as the fight for the Defense Department JEDI contract continues.
NewsGuard report: Twitter is failing to clamp down on COVID-19 misinformation “superspreaders”, including some verified accounts with over 100,000 followers
some of which are verified — promoting misinformation about questionable treatments or cures that appear to violate recent policies banning such content.” https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshan...
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners says it will invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio Platforms, which would give it a 2.32% stake, valuing the telco firm at $65B
Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners said on Friday it will invest $1.5 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms …
In filing, Clearview AI says it is canceling client accounts not associated with law enforcement or other government entities, amid mounting scrutiny
Clearview AI — the controversial face-tracking company known for scraping more than 3 billion photos from social media sites including Facebook …
Google brings all of its messaging and communication apps under a single team to be led by Javier Soltero, who is VP and GM of G Suite
Integration isn't on the roadmap, but coherency may be — In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite …
Dropbox beat estimates in Q1 with first-ever net income of $39.3M on sales of $455M, up 18% YoY; number of paying customers rose to 14.6M from 13.2M a year ago
Dropbox Inc. reported its first-ever net income, in a quarter when demand for cloud software was bolstered by a shift to working from home.
Google expands Read Along, its Android app that uses AI to help children read via verbal and visual feedback in nine languages, from India to 180+ countries
Google today launched Read Along, an Android app that taps AI and machine learning to help children learn to read by providing verbal and visual feedback.
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”
Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
Interview with Xbox Series X development lead Jason Ronald, on the console's power and price, its new boot screen, giving developers creative control, and more
Jason Ronald's job title is partner director of program management for the Xbox platform team, but what that somewhat robotic label boils …
A researcher found NSO Group's contact tracing system, codenamed “Fleming”, unprotected on the Internet, NSO says system was a demo, hence not a security lapse
As countries work to reopen after weeks of lockdown, contact-tracing apps help to understand the spread of the deadly coronavirus strain, COVID-19. Tweets: @lorenzofb , @rj_gallagher , @campuscodi , @...
HackerEarth survey: 32% of 16K+ experienced developers pick Google's Go as the programming language they want to learn, followed by Python at 24%
But they are over having meetings, and most of them working for large enterprise aren't happy with their job.
Uber reports Q1 revenue of $3.54B, up 14% YoY, gross bookings of $15.8B, up 8%, net loss of $2.9B; rides gross bookings fell 5%, Eats bookings were up 52% YoY
but says business is starting to pick up again https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ ... Lora Kolodny / @lorakolodny : Uber reports Q1 earnings after the bell - analysts are expecting losses of 88 cents...
Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought
in 2012!!! https://public-assets.graphika.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @4ngl3rf1sh : 1/ Facebook Downs Inauthentic Cluster Inspired by QAnon Below are some key elements from the great report form ...
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review: nice display, lovely keyboard, and great performance, but models with 10th-gen Intel CPUs are pricey and it can get hot
and the new 13-inch MacBook Pro is great Tweets: Luke Miani / @lukemiani : The new base model MacBook Pro is confusing 🧐 What do you think? Good value? Wait for a maybe 14"? https://www.youtube.com/.....
Google updates its Lens app for iOS and Android to let users copy and paste some handwritten text to Chrome, read text aloud, and provide information on words
James Vincent / The Verge :
The pandemic is forcing tech companies to rethink open-floor plans as they prepare to reopen offices in the coming weeks and months
When the headquarters of Mission Bio reopens next week, employees will find many of the familiar perks they enjoyed before Silicon Valley went into lockdown have changed. Tweets: @markmilian and @vscp...
A look at how streamers like Bytedance have prospered in China while the country has lost 20% of its theatrical release capacity and 5K+ film and TV companies
Things got weird on the Chinese Internet in January. — With at least 760 million of the nation's residents … Tweets: @variety , @variety , and @variety Tweets: @variety : Coronavirus is catalyzing a...
Lyft says it now requires drivers and riders to confirm they are free of COVID-19 symptoms and to wear face masks or coverings during rides
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
A look at how JD.com and Alibaba's Taobao in China used livestreaming to help farmers engage with their customers and sell more products amid COVID-19
Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review :
Citizen Lab: WeChat screens overseas users for sensitive content, which it then bars from being viewed by Chinese accounts
Owen Churchill / South China Morning Post :
Facebook will begin to open most of its offices on July 6 but says most employees will be given the choice to continue to work from home through the end of 2020
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
A Facebook SDK crash caused iOS apps like TikTok and Venmo to crash on Wednesday, showing the need for Apple to sandbox third-party SDKs from an app's own code
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Sonos cofounder calls out Spotify CEO's criticism of Apple, says it's “significantly more difficult to work within Spotify's ‘closed’ ecosystem than Apple's”
Charlie Wood / Business Insider :
Xiaomi, Vivo, Samsung, Oppo, and others begin to partially resume smartphone production in India after getting approval from some states
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Roku posts revenue of $320.8M for Q1, up 55% YoY, and a net loss of $54.6M, warns that ad revenue growth will slow this year; stock down 9%+ after hours
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Square launches Online Checkout to let sellers accept card payments without having to build an entire online store
And (Cash) Challenges Tweets: Sean D. Emory / @_seandavid : Interesting rollout by Square: $SQ Square launches online checkout. Create buttons, links, etc. Add to Instagram, or transact via chat, or e...
Sources: Zoox, which has raised $1B, is in talks with automakers about a potential deal or financing, as the self-driving car startup contemplates a sale
Amir Efrati / The Information : Tweets: @filippie509 , @william_blake , @fmanjoo , @kateclarktweets , @amir , and @amir Tweets: Filip Piekniewski / @filippie509 : I've seen that movie before... https...
Workstream, which helps SMBs automate much of the hiring of deskless workers, raises $10M Series A led by Founders Fund and Basis Set Ventures
Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @nmasc_ Tweets: Natasha Mascarenhas / @nmasc_ : I love writing about founders that come from nontraditional networks. In this case, I talked to Desmond Lim,...
AMD launches Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors, with better security features and improvements to battery life and performance
Monica Chin / The Verge :
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.