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• The convergence of telemedicine, personal health tech, and AI (zdnet.com)
  Dr. Jason Hallock, chief medical officer at SOC Telemed, sits down and tells Tonya Hall that the COVID-19 pandemic sped up the evolution of…
• Bot or Not tests if you know you are talking to a human or machine (zdnet.com)
  Can you tell a human from a bot when you are using instant messaging?
• Privacy browser Brave busted for autocompleting URLs to versions it profits from (zdnet.com)
  Chromium-based Brave stumbles in its efforts to shake up the browser business with cryptocurrency and privacy.
• Vulnerabilities in popular open source projects doubled in 2019 (zdnet.com)
  Jenkins and MySQL vulnerabilities have had the most weaponized vulnerabilities in the past five years.
• COVID-19: The after economy and developing appropriate responses (zdnet.com)
  Marshall Lager, thought leader, influencer in the CRM/CX world, speaks to the after-economy: What should we be looking for and what we migh…
• SpaceX: We've launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet (zdnet.com)
  SpaceX engineers also reveal machine learning is not used on the Dragon and Falcon spacecraft.
• Ubuntu opens the door to talking with Linux Mint about Snap (zdnet.com)
  Ubuntu explains its position about the Chromium Snap. Canonical would welcome the chance to talk with Linux Mint about their issues with Sn…
• Meet GAIA-X: This is Europe's bid to get cloud independence from US and China giants (zdnet.com)
  France and Germany launch GAIA-X EU cloud independence project.
• How to make the Amazon Fire HD 8 even better (zdnet.com)
  For $90, the new Amazon Fire HD 8 is a fantastic tablet. But with a little know-how, you can make it even better.
• These open-source software developers want to give diabetics new tools to manage their condition (zdnet.com)
  Tidepool has persuaded some of the biggest diabetes tech players to start opening up, which could offer diabetics new options.
• Cash payments plummet thanks to pandemic (zdnet.com)
  Reserve Bank of Australia has said cheques are on their death bed. The only question surrounding the long-term decline of cash is whether r…
• Culture still keeps eating Agile software strategies for breakfast (zdnet.com)
  The latest Agile survey finds efforts still crushed by organizational inertia; however, Agile efforts still shined through recent COVID-19…
• You'll wish you'd made this simple iPhone tweak years ago (zdnet.com)
  Apple has done a good job of making the iOS interface easy to use. But there's one hidden feature that take usability to the next level.
• How Adobe subscribed to a new school of success… and a new class of competitors (zdnet.com)
  By embracing SAAS, the House that Photoshop Built tripled its reach and became a leading force in martech. But more companies are drawing a…
• Approximately 117,000 IT jobs lost since March, US data shows (zdnet.com)
  The latest government employment data sheds light on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the IT job market.
• Alexis Ohanian steps down from Reddit board to make room for a black candidate (zdnet.com)
  The co-founder of the social media platform said "resignation can be an act of leadership from people in power right now."
• Google revamps Pixel line with safety and wellness features (zdnet.com)
  The updates include a "bedtime" feature, improvements to the Recorder app, and improved Adaptive Battery capabilities.
• Linux Mint dumps Ubuntu Snap (zdnet.com)
  The popular desktop Linux distribution, Linux Mint, wants nothing to do with Ubuntu's Snap software installation system.
• Ready to run Linux on Windows 10? Here’s how (zdnet.com)
  Ed Bott explains how Microsoft helped him install the latest version of Ubuntu Linux on his Windows 10 PC.
• QNAP NAS devices targeted in another wave of ransomware attacks (zdnet.com)
  eCh0raix ransomware gang returns with a new wave of attacks against QNAP NAS devices.
• Meet the new Microsoft, same as the old Microsoft? (zdnet.com)
  Satya Nadella's company claims its purpose is to play well with others. But some say it's become "sharp-elbowed" again. Should we be surpri…
• How do tech giants know so much about you? (zdnet.com)
  A new study shows just how much valuable information we freely give away.
• What does Trump's executive order mean for social media platforms? (zdnet.com)
  An executive order from the White House challenges the legal protections for the content published by social media platforms such as Facebo…
• iOS or Android: Here are the five apps I install first (zdnet.com)
  I've noticed that no matter whether I'm setting up a new iPhone or iPad, or a new Android device, it's the same five apps that I install fi…
• Social media during protests: The good, the bad, and what must change (zdnet.com)
  In this week's Jason Squared, Jason Perlow and Jason Cipriani discuss social media's enormous power to complement, coordinate and escalate…
• Contact tracing: Still no firm date for when the UK's app will arrive (zdnet.com)
  The NHS contact-tracing app should have been available to download in May, but it still doesn't have a launch date.
• Microsoft Teams: Now free version finally lets you create video meetings (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft Teams free version users can set up video meetings instead of just joining ones created by paying users.
• Elon Musk: 'Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong' (zdnet.com)
  Elon Musk calls for break-up of space rival Jeff Bezos' Amazon in row over a book on coronavirus lockdowns.
• Commercializing space: The pros and cons (zdnet.com)
  Author Andy Weir talks to Tonya Hall about the potential commercialization of space, what that would mean for society, and any potential th…
• IBM releases toolkit aimed at keeping data encrypted even while in use (zdnet.com)
  IBM's new toolkit aims to give developers easier access to fully homomorphic encryption, a nascent technology with significant promise for…
• Microsoft dropped for open source: Why Hamburg is now following Munich's lead (zdnet.com)
  Former Microsoft bastion Hamburg's decision is particularly telling, say observers.
• Motorola launches revamped budget Moto e, Moto g fast (zdnet.com)
  The devices cover the lower end price points of the Moto portfolio and offer good value.
• To Zoom or not to Zoom? Virtual parliament continues - at least for some (zdnet.com)
  The UK's experiment with a virtual parliament has not quite come to an end, yet.
• France develops its own contact-tracing app bypassing Apple and Google's protocol (zdnet.com)
  StopCovid will not use the API put forward by Apple and Google.
• Should you stay at a hotel yet? (zdnet.com)
  As hotels come back online, guests are in for some major changes to the hospitality experience.
• Windows 10's new open-source PowerToys Run app launcher: Microsoft fixes the bugs (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft polishes its new PowerToys Run app launcher with the release of a glitch-fixing update.
• Superhero offers instant payment, turning web addresses into P2P wallets (zdnet.com)
  Blockchain-based Superhero offers peer-to-peer social sharing project for cash tips, patronage, and sponsoring opportunities.
• Meet the people keeping the cloud up and running in the middle of lockdown (zdnet.com)
  Keeping the cloud-computing infrastructure that we rely on operating in the middle of a the coronavirus crisis is a complicated challenge.
• In discussion on network performance (zdnet.com)
  Wireless networks are being asked to do more than ever before, but in many instances the technologies they are built on have their origins…
• AU$721 million in robo-debts to be returned as Australian government admits error (zdnet.com)
  Services Australia has identified 470,000 debts raised wholly or partially using income averaging of ATO data.
• SK Telecom invests in Israeli digital X-ray firm Nanox (zdnet.com)
  The companies plan on deploying 2,500 Nanox Systems in South Korea and Vietnam.
• WWF-Indonesia using machine learning to save critically endangered orangutans (zdnet.com)
  World Wildlife Fund for Nature Indonesia has turned to AWS to speed up orangutan conservation efforts.
• Kiwibank overhauled its customer service management system in time for COVID-19 (zdnet.com)
  The timeline had to be unexpectedly brought forward to enable contact centre staff to service customers.
• Queensland fire service adopts virtual reality technology to train new recruits (zdnet.com)
  A move that is touted to reduce risks and costs without jeopardising the ability to learn.
• Jio Platforms receives over ₹9,000 crore investment from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala (zdnet.com)
  Jio Platforms has now received investments totalling ₹87,655 crore in six weeks.
• Learning platform Chegg acquires Mathway to expand its math services globally (zdnet.com)
  The $100 million deal gives Chegg access to Mathway subscribers in about 100 countries.
• AWS brings EC2 C5a instances, powered by AMD, into general availability (zdnet.com)
  The new instances are well-suited for compute-intensive workloads that can take advantage of the 2nd Gen Epyc processor's high core counts,…
• Slack, AWS forge multi-year partnership for cloud services, product integration (zdnet.com)
  AWS and Slack have a mutual foe in Microsoft with Azure and Teams, respectively.
• NextCloud gets bigger and better with Nextcloud Hub 19 (zdnet.com)
  The best open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, Nextcloud, is getting even better with improved security and built-in Collabora On…
• Broadcom beats Q2 revenue expectations, expects "substantial reset" in wireless (zdnet.com)
  Meanwhile, MongoDB and Domo beat quarterly expectations with sales driven by accelerated digital transformation efforts.