Apple to begin reopening US stores next week using safety measures like temperature checks, starting with some stores in Idaho, S. Carolina, Alabama, and Alaska
Apple is preparing to reopen a select number of retail stores in the United States next week.
Both Defcon and Black Hat, originally scheduled for August, have cancelled in-person events, instead opting to host conferences online
For real this time. Its sister conference, Black Hat, has also been called off. — For years, a simple and elegant inside joke has permeated Defcon, the influential hacking conference.
Google adds a kid-friendly “family mode” to Duo and says Duo on the web will soon support group calls, starting as a preview on Chrome
Work and personal video calling are surging in light of COVID-19, with Google announcing a handful of new Duo features last month to support that demand.
ShinyHunters claims to have stolen 500GB+ of data from Microsoft's private GitHub repositories; Microsoft says it is investigating the claims
A hacker claims to have stolen over 500GB of data from Microsoft's private GitHub repositories, BleepingComputer has learned.
Sources: UK's NHS has already begun developing a second contact tracing app, 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 the spread of the coronavirus …
Lime's new CEO Wayne Ting, who replaces co-founder Brad Bao, talks about Uber-led $170M investment, consolidating assets from Jump, and weathering the pandemic
Lime is receiving a much-need cash infusion from Uber and other investors as the scooter company attempts to reset its business amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A look at TikTok's emerging meme culture, as multi-platform meme brands and independent Instagram meme influencers begin investing heavily in the platform
Bombarding a platform known for dance crazes and skits is strategic, and potentially very lucrative.
Hacker group ShinyHunters claims it has breached ten companies, including dating app Zoosk, and is selling their 73M+ user databases on a dark web marketplace
Hacker group “ShinyHunters” is selling the data of 10 companies on a dark web cybercrime marketplace.
States like NY, CA, MA, and cities like Baltimore and SF are skeptical about tech-based contact tracing, instead hiring thousands for manual contact tracing
Ex-Google engineer James Damore and three other men who alleged hiring bias ask the court to dismiss their lawsuit after reaching an agreement with the company
A lawsuit that made a big bang in Silicon Valley two years ago with allegations of mistreatment of politically conservative tech workers came to a quiet end this week.
Surface Go 2 review: small improvements over original with larger screen and faster CPU, but $400 entry model is lacking in power and upgrades are expensive
Judging the Surface Go 2 really comes down to your expectations. Can you live with slow performance to get a well-designed $400 tablet PC (not including a keyboard)?
Facebook says it plans to complete the rollout of its redesigned desktop website to all users over the “next few weeks”
This week we introduced the new Facebook.com. Nick Statt / The Verge : Facebook's redesigned desktop site with dark mode is now available everywhere Ravish Bhatia / Turnaround : WTF- A short comic str...
Kingsoft Cloud, a China-based cloud service provider, closed up 40% on its trading debut on Nasdaq, after raising $510M in its IPO, and is now valued at $4.77B
- Beijing-based cloud computing company raised $510 million — IPO is the biggest by a Chinese company in U.S. this year
A look at “aimbot” and “wallhack” cheating going on in PC games like CoD: Warzone and Destiny 2, as game developers announce big updates to respond to cheating
If you've ever played a PC game that has a competitive element, you've probably played against a cheater. Tweets: @tomwarren Tweets: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : The world's biggest PC games are fighting...
A history of Nintendo's success through times of global strife as it weathered world wars, a great depression, recessions, natural disasters, and now a pandemic
Hiroshi Yamauchi was a teenager when the first bombs dropped. The young man would become Nintendo's third-ever president … Tweets: @genepark , @winwinirwin , and @sancabmx Tweets: Gene Park / @genepa...
Judo Bank, an Australia-based neobank that provides loans to SMBs, raises $147M Series C, bringing its total equity funding to ~$500M
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Microsoft and Amazon exchange acerbic blog posts, accusing each other of underhanded tactics in their fight over the DoD JEDI cloud infrastructure contract
this time against Pentagon's corrective action Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central : Microsoft and Amazon trade more jabs in fight over DoD JEDI contract Ashley Stewart / Business Insider : Amazon s...
Cornershop, a grocery delivery service operating in Latin America that Uber said it would acquire last year, debuts in the US, launching in Miami and Dallas
Mariana López / Contxto :
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
TechCrunch :
Dropbox reports first quarterly profit since IPO, with Q1 net income of $39.3M and sales up 18% YoY to $455M; paying customers rose to 14.6M from 13.2M in 2019
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
Google says it expects most of its staff to work from home until 2021
"price" discrimination (*every* kind of discrimination) in all aspects of human life https://twitter.com/... Sheryl Jean / @sjeanwrites : The US stock market is up today despite massive job losses for...
Twitter disputes US State Department claims that it was “highly probable” that China coordinated networks of Twitter accounts to disseminate COVID-19 disinfo
but Twitter says the evidence the State Department has provided doesn't support its claims. (w/@jmhansler & @kylieatwood) http://www.cnn.com/...
IDC: India's smartphone market grew 1.5% YoY in Q1 while China and US declined dramatically; Apple still dominates $500+ segment, Xiaomi maintains overall lead
Abhijit Ahaskar / Livemint :
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 :
WHO plans to launch a COVID-19 symptom app globally this month and is considering a contact tracing feature, with the app's open source code released on GitHub
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Sources: Zeus, a long-term corporate housing marketplace, raises $15M from existing investors, halving the company's valuation to ~$110M from December round
Bloomberg : Tweets: @livcarville , @gilliantan , and @katie_roof Tweets: Olivia Carville / @livcarville : Covid-19 continues to bulldoze the travel industry, slashing valuations left, right and cente...
IT services provider Cognizant says it expects to lose between $50M and $70M in Q2 due to a ransomware attack in April, from which it has now fully recovered
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
South Korean online grocery delivery startup Kurly raises ~$160M Series E led by DST Global, bringing its total raised to $328M
Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc / DealStreetAsia :
Sources: EU is initiating a €600K tender for a study on the gatekeeping power of tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple and ways to remedy it
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : Tweets: @danielollecto Tweets: Daniel Oll / @danielollecto : “The Commission's directorate-general for communications and technology expects an interim report in three months...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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