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Dara Kerr / CNET : Uber partners with telemedicine service Ro to give US workers free COVID assessments, as Lyft partners with One Medical for one month trial memberships   —  The ride-hailing company partners with the telemedicine service to help drivers figure out if they may have been infected with the coronavirus. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2xn5Vd9 via IFTTT

ICANN : ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital   —  Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN. source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p46#a200430p46

ICANN : ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital   —  Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3f9JDN2 via IFTTT

Monica Chin / The Verge : Reddit has disabled its chat room feature, Start Chatting, a day after launch due to “several errors” in rollout and moderators' concerns over lack of control   —  The company says the rollout had several errors  —  Remember how Reddit announced just yesterday that it was introducing built-in subreddit chat rooms? from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2WcIBHG via IFTTT

Monica Chin / The Verge : Reddit has disabled its chat room feature, Start Chatting, a day after launch due to “several errors” in rollout and moderators' concerns over lack of control   —  The company says the rollout had several errors  —  Remember how Reddit announced just yesterday that it was introducing built-in subreddit chat rooms? source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p45#a200430p45

Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet : IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever   —  Shipment volumes suffered its largest year over year decline in the first quarter.  —  The latest data from International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that as the world grapples … source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p44#a200430p44

Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet : IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever   —  Shipment volumes suffered its largest year over year decline in the first quarter.  —  The latest data from International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that as the world grapples … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/35miL8a via IFTTT

Benjamin Romano / The Seattle Times : Amazon tells its Seattle and Bellevue employees already working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2”   —  Amazon told its corporate employees working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2 … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3bUN6x9 via IFTTT

Benjamin Romano / The Seattle Times : Amazon tells its Seattle and Bellevue employees already working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2”   —  Amazon told its corporate employees working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2 … source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p43#a200430p43

Joseph Cox / VICE : The UN's social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals   —  This week a division of the United Nations announced its new social distancing app designed to help alert people when they get too close … source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p42#a200430p42

Joseph Cox / VICE : The UN's social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals   —  This week a division of the United Nations announced its new social distancing app designed to help alert people when they get too close … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2YlUOfJ via IFTTT

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Walmart is piloting a 2-hour “Express” grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee; plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ “personal shoppers”   —  Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders … source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p41#a200430p41

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Walmart is piloting a 2-hour “Express” grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee; plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ “personal shoppers”   —  Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2VPbaMe via IFTTT

Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review : Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted   —  Pandemic conspiracy theorists are using the Wayback Machine to promote “zombie content” that evades moderators and fact-checkers. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2z1HClK via IFTTT

Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review : Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted   —  Pandemic conspiracy theorists are using the Wayback Machine to promote “zombie content” that evades moderators and fact-checkers. source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p40#a200430p40

Tom Krazit / Protocol : Wall Street has been slow to shift to the cloud, using mainframes until recently, but issues like handling spikes in demand amid COVID-19 may change that   —  Financial services companies were skeptical of cloud computing's benefits and wouldn't hand over control of their data.  But the pressure is rising. source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p5#a200430p5

Tom Warren / The Verge : Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting a misleading claim in its original blog post, which now says 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants”   —  Zoom quietly updated a blog post earlier this month  —  Zoom has admitted it doesn't have 300 million daily active users. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2WbkLvL via IFTTT

Dan Primack / Axios : Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies   —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $515 million for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.  —  Strategy: Like its $300 million predecessor … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2xlmlTv via IFTTT

Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy’s Shorenstein Center, where I am the director, has been investigating how misinformation, scams, and conspiracies about covid-19 circulate online. If fraudsters are now using the virus to dupe unsuspecting individuals, we thought, then our research on misinformation should focus on understanding the new tactics of these media manipulators. What we found was a disconcerting explosion in “zombie content.” In April, Amelia Acker, assistant professor of Information Studies at UT Austin, brought our attention to a popular link containing conspiratorial propaganda suggesting China is hiding important information about covid-19.  The News NT website The original post was from a generic looking site called News NT , alleging that 21 million people had died from covid-19 in China. That story was quickly debunked and, according to data from Crowdtangle (a metric and engagement produ...

Tom Warren / The Verge : Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting a misleading claim in its original blog post, which now says 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants”   —  Zoom quietly updated a blog post earlier this month  —  Zoom has admitted it doesn't have 300 million daily active users. source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p4#a200430p4

Dan Primack / Axios : Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies   —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $515 million for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies.  —  Strategy: Like its $300 million predecessor … source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p3#a200430p3

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker : Q&A with EU's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on virus tracking apps and privacy, her disagreements with Elizabeth Warren about regulating big tech, and more   —  “She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met.”  This was President Trump's assessment of Margrethe Vestager … source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p2#a200430p2

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker : Q&A with EU's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on virus tracking apps and privacy, her disagreements with Elizabeth Warren about regulating big tech, and more   —  “She hates the United States perhaps worse than any person I've ever met.”  This was President Trump's assessment of Margrethe Vestager … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2zJJgZu via IFTTT

Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider : Salesforce is moving all of its events in 2020 online, including Dreamforce, which drew over 170K attendees in 2019, contributing $150M+ to the SF economy   —  - Salesforce is cancelling all its events for the rest of 2020 and making them virtual, including its annual Dreamforce conference. source http://www.techmeme.com/200430/p1#a200430p1

Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider : Salesforce is moving all of its events in 2020 online, including Dreamforce, which drew over 170K attendees in 2019, contributing $150M+ to the SF economy   —  - Salesforce is cancelling all its events for the rest of 2020 and making them virtual, including its annual Dreamforce conference. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2KNYfUl via IFTTT