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London-based Blink, an app that helps companies and orgs connect with their frontline workers, raises £8.2M Series A led by Partech as it launches publicly (Annie Musgrove/Tech.eu)
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu : London-based Blink, an app that helps companies and orgs…
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PresenceLearning, which helps school districts provide speech and mental health therapy to students online, raises $27M Series D, bringing total raised to $70M+ (Tony Wan/EdSurge)
Tony Wan / EdSurge : PresenceLearning, which helps school districts provide speech …
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AI has played a useful but fragmented role in the global fight against COVID-19, from predicting outbreaks to aiding diagnosis and drug discovery efforts (Kai-Fu Lee/Wired)
Kai-Fu Lee / Wired : AI has played a useful but fragmented role in the global fight…
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Facebook has had a recent influx of millennial and Gen Z users, some of whom say certain Facebook groups offer unemployment support, job search help, and more (Jael Goldfine/PAPER)
Jael Goldfine / PAPER : Facebook has had a recent influx of millennial and Gen Z us…
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Upgrades of 911 emergency response systems enable paramedics to do video call assessments to prioritize resources and pinpoint callers' locations more precisely (Shira Ovide/New York Times)
Shira Ovide / New York Times : Upgrades of 911 emergency response systems enable pa…
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Facebook revises proposal for Willow Village, its 50+ acre development project in Menlo Park, to reduce square footage by 29%, from 1.75M to 1.25M square feet (George Avalos/Mercury News)
George Avalos / Mercury News : Facebook revises proposal for Willow Village, its 50…
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Telehealth will be more proactive, hyper-personalized, and data-driven thanks to connected devices, remote healthcare kits, mobile apps, and AI-based monitoring (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company : Telehealth will be more proactive, hyper-personalize…
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Report: 60% of insider cybersecurity threats involve employees leaving their jobs, with 44% forwarding content to personal emails, 16% misusing cloud privileges (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Report: 60% of insider cybersecurity threats involve empl…
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Senate passes legislation that would bar Alibaba and Baidu from US stock exchange listing, if they cannot certify they aren't under foreign government control (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Senate passes legislation that would bar Alibaba and Baidu from US stoc…
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Twitter's plan to let users restrict tweet replies may curb some harassment, but will allow some users to shut down criticism and will reduce random engagement (Will Oremus/OneZero )
Will Oremus / OneZero : Twitter's plan to let users restrict tweet replies may…
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Sources: Deel, a payroll service for remote workers, raises $14M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Hugh Son/CNBC)
Hugh Son / CNBC : Sources: Deel, a payroll service for remote workers, raises $14M …
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KKR to invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio for a 2.32% stake; this is Reliance Jio's fifth major raise in just as many weeks (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : KKR to invest $1.5B in Reliance Jio for a 2.32% stake; …
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Gen Z TikTok stars have embraced the rise of "collab houses" in Los Angeles, where young social media personalities chasing influence live and work together (Taylor Lorenz/New York Times)
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times : Gen Z TikTok stars have embraced the rise of “coll…
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Report: Chinese investors in US tech companies closed 11 deals worth $400M in Q1, down from 18 deals worth $1.8B in Q1 2019, as China looks to EU for investment (Yujie Xue/South China Morning Post)
Yujie Xue / South China Morning Post : Report: Chinese investors in US tech compani…
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A look at the accuracy of commercial fitness trackers, as studies show factors like having darker skin or shuffling when walking can throw off sensors (Sara Harrison/The Markup)
Sara Harrison / The Markup : A look at the accuracy of commercial fitness trackers,…
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After its debut last year, the Oculus Quest has quickly overcome many of its initial compromises, with an expanded library and better PC VR integration (Sam Byford/The Verge)
Sam Byford / The Verge : After its debut last year, the Oculus Quest has quickly ov…
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Despite qualms from some experts, Google and Apple's exposure notification API enables the most privacy-respecting approach to contact tracing in history (Techdirt)
Techdirt : Despite qualms from some experts, Google and Apple's exposure notifi…
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A hacker is selling the details of 40M registered users of the polling app Wishbone, including email addresses and some passwords in a weak hashing format MD5 (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : A hacker is selling the details of 40M registered users o…
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Robotic toy maker Sphero names Paul Copioli as new CEO, and announces a spin-off company called Company Six, that will make robotic systems for first responders (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Robotic toy maker Sphero names Paul Copioli as new CEO, …
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Scribd announces Scribd Perks, which gives paying subscribers access to additional audio and video streaming services like Pandora Plus at no extra charge (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Scribd announces Scribd Perks, which gives paying subscrib…
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