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• CDC updates COVID-19 guidance for critical businesses (like Amazon)

  10-04-2020 22:05 via zdnet.com
  
  Critical workers should be sent home immediately if they're sick, the CDC says, while special precautions should be taken after potential exposure.
  
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• Backed to Business: A printer to go, a slider phone, and a mechanical keyboard

  10-04-2020 21:52 via zdnet.com
  
  This edition of Backed to Business looks at a mechanical keyboard that combines portability with ergonomics, a new smartphone with a best-in-class keyboard, and a tiny cube of a printer that can print on almost anything, even you.
  
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• Coronavirus: Apple and Google team up to contact trace Covid-19

  10-04-2020 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The companies plan to add contact tracing to their operating systems so no extra apps are needed.
  
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• Win a home security bundle by Canary*

  10-04-2020 21:00 via zdnet.com
  
  One lucky winner will take home a Canary Pro, Canary Flex, and one-year premium membership. Open to the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada (excluding Quebec).
  
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• Members of Congress want to give $2B more to healthcare facilities for broadband

  10-04-2020 20:44 via zdnet.com
  
  To ramp up the use of telemedicine during the COVID-19 crisis, a new House bill proposes a big influx of cash to existing program that subsidizes broadband deployments.
  
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• Apple, Google team up to develop COVID-19 contact tracing technology

  10-04-2020 20:29 via zdnet.com
  
  The joint effort will focus on the use of Bluetooth technology to track the spread and identify potential hotspots of coronavirus transmission based on smartphone location data.
  
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• Dutch police take down 15 DDoS services in a week

  10-04-2020 19:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Dutch authorities launch sudden strike against DDoS-for-hire operators; take down 15 sites in a week.
  
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• IBM, Open Mainframe Project launch initiative to help train COBOL coders

  10-04-2020 19:00 via zdnet.com
  
  State agencies are struggling to find actively working COBOL engineers who can update their unemployment benefit systems to factor in new parameters for unemployment eligibility.
  
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• Startup Tenstorrent shows AI is changing computing and vice versa

  10-04-2020 18:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Tenstorrent is one of the rush of AI chip makers founded in 2016 and finally showing product. The new wave of chips represent a substantial departure from how traditional computer chips work, but also point to ways that neural network design may change in the years to come.
  
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• In a time of crisis, can digital technology save globalization?

  10-04-2020 18:13 via zdnet.com
  
  I have to ponder: If digital technology-enabled globalization -- or at least massively accelerated it -- can it also save it?
  
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• Gambling company to set aside $30 million to deal with cyber-attack fallout

  10-04-2020 17:16 via zdnet.com
  
  In the middle of a merger, SBTech will have $30 million placed in escrow to deal with the repercussions of a suspected ransomware infection.
  
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• Brazilian food and drug regulator bans Zoom

  10-04-2020 16:48 via zdnet.com
  
  Heightened concerns around security in the pandemic prompted Anvisa to tell staff to use Microsoft Teams instead.
  
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• I’ve been working from home for 13 years and I’m beginning to hate it

  10-04-2020 15:49 via zdnet.com
  
  So many people claim that this is the Great Working-From-Home Experiment. It isn't. It doesn't come with many of the true benefits of working from home. Why, it's even getting to me.
  
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• Coronavirus tech conference cancellations list: Apple WWDC, Microsoft Build and Ignite, E3, HPE Discover, Gartner, Dell World and more

  10-04-2020 15:36 via zdnet.com
  
  As the COVID-19 outbreak spreads, tech conferences are being canceled, postponed, or turned into virtual events.
  
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• Work from home: The best VPNs for your home office or any remote connection

  10-04-2020 15:33 via zdnet.com
  
  VPNs aren't essential only for securing your unencrypted Wi-Fi connections in coffee shops and airports. Every remote worker should consider a VPN to stay safe online. Here are your top choices and how to get set up.
  
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• Coronavirus: Google data suggests park visits rose on weekend

  10-04-2020 14:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warm weather saw an increase in park visits last weekend, but overall activity was lower than usual.
  
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• Launching Oracle’s COVID-19 Therapeutic App: The back story

  10-04-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Oracle’s APEX application development framework was an unsung hero in enabling a drug treatment reporting app to make it from design to full national rollout in the US in barely two weeks. Here’s how it happened.
  
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• Coronavirus: Amazon builds its own testing lab for staff

  10-04-2020 13:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The retail giant intends to start testing a "small number" of frontline employees for Covid-19.
  
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• Brilliant: One team's 48-hour COVID-19 hackathon

  10-04-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The story of a small but passionate team, thoughtful leadership, and the best of what technology can offer human beings.
  
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• SEC settles with two suspects in EDGAR hacking case

  10-04-2020 12:04 via zdnet.com
  
  Hacker directly responsible for the hack is still at large, though.
  
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• Coronavirus: Teachers in Singapore stop using Zoom after 'lewd' incidents

  10-04-2020 09:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A secondary school home-based geography lesson in Singapore was hijacked by two men.
  
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• Robots stand-in for graduating students and other news

  10-04-2020 09:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week's technology stories.
  
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• Where to ‘go out’ and have fun this lockdown Easter weekend

  10-04-2020 07:00
  
  Although you can't actually leave the house this weekend, you can still experience the outside world through a variety of live-streamed cultural activities
  
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• These games will get you through the long weekend lockdown

  10-04-2020 07:00
  
  Ahead of the long weekend, we've picked out the most-absorbing, entertaining, immersive games to get lost in during self-isolation. Stay home, stay safe, play these
  
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• No eggs? No worries with this list of ingenious kitchen hacks

  10-04-2020 07:00
  
  How to bake without flour or eggs; cook bread without any kneading required; make your own pasta and do just about anything in your kitchen with what you’ve already got in your cupboards
  
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• Immunity passports aren’t a good way out of the coronavirus crisis

  10-04-2020 07:00
  
  The UK government is considering issuing immunity passports to people who can prove they are immune to Covid-19, but the idea is fraught with problems
  
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• Coronavirus tests and masks sold by fraudsters online

  10-04-2020 06:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A BBC investigation has found online scams selling fake protective equipment and coronavirus tests.
  
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• Coronavirus: Astronauts arrive at ISS after long quarantine

  10-04-2020 02:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut docked at the space station after their rocket took off from Kazakhstan.
  
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• Coronavirus: The people fighting fakes from their sofas

  10-04-2020 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bad information is spreading online. But a band of volunteers up and down the country are trying to stamp it out.
  
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• Should we teach children about quantum computing?

  10-04-2020 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For parents with the money, companies are offering courses in cutting-edge technology, but are they worth it?
  
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• Brazil undertakes massive tech-enabled financial inclusion exercise with "coronavoucher"

  10-04-2020 00:35 via zdnet.com
  
  Millions of unbanked citizens are receiving the government's emergency financial aid through a mobile app.
  
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• Time to re-evaluate AI algorithms right from the design stage, experts urge

  10-04-2020 00:07 via zdnet.com
  
  With AI bias and errant outcomes surging, a call for more human involvement. 'Even the people deploying these algorithms sometimes would be surprised that these things could happen'
  
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