Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a "union vulnerability index", to predict and squash organizing (Sarah Kessler/OneZero )

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A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

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Raksha Bandhan 2020: Quotes and wishes to share with your siblings

Raksha Bandhan is a day that celebrates the promise that we make to our siblings that no matter what situation arises, we will protect them and love them. Each year siblings come together on Raksha Bandhan to tie rakhis to each other and exchange gifts and sweets.

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Trump says he will ban TikTok in the US US security officials fear the Chinese-owned app could be used to collect Americans' personal data. August 01, 2020 at 10:46AM

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Google updates its "Why this ad" feature, now "About this ad", to show verified names of advertisers and is testing "trust tokens" to replace 3rd-party cookies (Mike Schulman/The Keyword)

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William English, who alongside Douglas Engelbart built the first computer with a mouse and showed it at "The Mother of All Demos", dies at 91 (Cade Metz/New York Times)

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President Trump says he will act as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok from the United States (CNBC)

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When companies have too many smaller teams, slicing problems too thinly, they face high coordination costs as teams become too dependent on each other (Kislay Verma)

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Lemonaid Health, which offers an on-demand service for accessing health care online, raises $33M Series B, bringing its total raised to $55M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

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Apple acquires Mobeewave, whose app lets shoppers tap their credit card or phone on a smartphone to make a payment; one source says the deal is worth ~$100M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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COVID-19 has pushed museums to improve their online offerings, including virtual tours, as they explore potential business models based on digital content (Daniel Grant/Wall Street Journal)

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Twitter hack: Staff tricked by phone spear-phishing scam Twitter says employees were tricked into handing over credentials to the cyber-attackers. July 31, 2020 at 04:17PM

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#ChallengeAccepted: Why the Instagram hashtag went viral, may be 'self promotional'...

The hashtag #ChallengeAccepted has been around for a while, and has been used to promote cancer awareness, spread positivity and is now being used to raise awareness about femicides and domestic violence in Turkey. But those black and white glamour shots are may just be ‘self promotional’.

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Twitter bans ex-KKK leader David Duke He was permanently suspended for repeatedly violating Twitter's "hateful conduct" rules. July 31, 2020 at 03:39PM

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Chinese importers are ramping up chip imports through Hong Kong before US sanctions shut the route; chip imports to China through Hong King are up 11% YoY (South China Morning Post)

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Physical distancing linked with significant reduction in Covid-19 transmission: Study

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Android malware BlackRock may steal banking data, CERT-In issues advisory The malware can extract credentials and credit card information from over 300 apps.

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BlackRock malware hits Android smartphones, steals your banking details The research says that the target list of the BlackRock malware contains an important number of social, networking, communication and dating applications.

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Burberry and Tencent team up for concept stores The luxury British retailer and China's tech giant have joined forces amid growing national tensions. July 31, 2020 at 09:30AM

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League of Legends European Championship cancels Saudi deal after backlash Fans of the esports league say they were right to highlight Saudi Arabia's human rights record. July 30, 2020 at 04:52PM

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Happy Birthday JK Rowling: Harry Potter, Ickabog author turns 55, a look at some...

J.K. Rowling shares her birthday with perhaps the most popular fictional character of our time and also her own creation, Harry Potter. As J.K. Rowling turns 55, her creation Harry is all set to celebrate his 40th birthday.

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Buddy, first dog to test positive for coronavirus dies in New York

Buddy’s health declined steadily after he developed breathing problems and thick nasal mucus in April. He was euthanised on July 11 after he started vomiting clotted blood.

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Covid-19 pandemic: Young children carry high levels of coronavirus

Children younger than five carried major amounts of coronavirus in their upper respiratory tract, a small study published on Thursday showed, raising new questions about whether kids can infect others.

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Can't stop the music: Argentine child orchestras play on amid coronavirus lockd...

Children get together and play music online with their youth orchestra group. Some 1,500 youngsters, ages 6 to 19, from low-income areas participate in a 22-year-old music program. When the pandemic hit, teachers had to reinvent their classes to deal with slow internet and getting the children to play together online.

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Sony launches A7S III full-frame mirrorless camera The comes with an ISO range of 80-102,400, which can be expanded to 80-409,600 for video and 40-409,600 for stills.

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Sources: Facebook has completed deals with the three largest music companies, Universal, Sony, and Warner, for the right to show music videos (Bloomberg)

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Emails from Jeff Bezos and other Amazon employees suggest the acquisition of Ring was for "market position - not technology" (Makena Kelly/The Verge)

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World Breastfeeding Week 2020: Support Breastfeeding for a healthier planet

This global campaign was first organised by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF in 1992, in an attempt to raise awareness about the benefits of exclusively breastfeeding for the initial 6 months of a child’s life.

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Young children carry higher levels of coronavirus: study

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In an update to the July 15 hack, Twitter says a few employees were targeted in a phone spear phishing attack, and it had since limited access to internal tools (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Rakuten confirms it is shutting its US online retail store, originally known as Buy.com, over the next two months; Rakuten bought Buy.com for $250M in 2010 (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for July 31, what's in store for Pisces,...

Horoscope Today: Are the stars lined up in your favour? Find out the astrological prediction for Aries, Leo, Virgo, Libra and other zodiac signs for July 31.

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The hearing at times felt like gaslighting, with the CEOs trying to convince lawmakers that the evidence the House collected wasn't really evidence of anything (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

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Emails in 2006 show Google almost struck a deal with Pure Digital, makers of the Flip Video, to make a "Google branded camera" to increase Google Video uploads (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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TikTok launches £54m fund for European creators to make videos The video sharing app launched a $200m fund for American users earlier this month. July 30, 2020 at 03:59PM

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Sources: EU antitrust regulators are set to open a full-scale investigation of Google's $2.1B bid for Fitbit after EC preliminary review ends August 4 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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WHO debunks myth about Hydroxychloroquine being potential cure for Covid-19

Present research done by the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that “hydroxychloroquine does not have clinical benefits in treating Covid-19.”

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Samsung Galaxy M31s with 64MP Intelli-Cam, Single Take feature launched in India –Know price, specs, availability and more The device sports sAMOLED Infinity O display, a powerful Quad camera with new sensor (IMX 682), 25W in-box fast charger, reverse charging and premium gradient design

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Research firm Forrester: US ad spending will decline by 25% this year and won't recover until 2023, and in 2020 and 2021, ad agencies will shed 52,000 jobs (Tiffany Hsu/New York Times)

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Unwanted WhatsApp group may longer bug you, new feature to enable users mute groups indefinitely: Reports The feature is currently under development and it comes with the 2.20.197.3 update.

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Arm has accused the ousted head of its China unit of hurting its business, in an escalating conflict that may hinder SoftBank's plans to sell the chip firm (Bloomberg)

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Coronavirus: Samsung profits soar on work from home demand The world's biggest producer of memory chips sees demand jump as data centres expanded during lockdowns. July 30, 2020 at 10:01AM

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Nasa Mars rover: Perseverance robot poised for launch The one-tonne vehicle will search for signs of Martian life and prepare rocks to send home to Earth. July 29, 2020 at 10:14PM

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Google builds world’s fastest machine learning training supercomputer that breaks AI performance records Google said that it achieved these results with ML model implementations in TensorFlow, JAX, and Lingvo. Four of the eight models were trained from scratch in under 30 seconds.

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Report: China-linked hackers infiltrated the Vatican's computer networks in the past three months, ahead of the Vatican's diplomatic negotiations with Beijing (New York Times)

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Report: Huawei shipped 55.8M devices globally, down 5% YoY, overtaking Samsung, which shipped 53.7M, down 30% YoY, becoming the world's top smartphone vendor (Canalys)

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Hacker shares data stolen on 18 companies, like Dave and Wattpad, on a forum for free, including 9 previously unreported breaches of Havenly, Indaba Music, more (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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A recap of antitrust hearing, which was messy but overdue and showed us the beginning of Congress holding powerful tech CEOs to account based on actual evidence (Casey Newton/The Interface)

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Samsung to launch Galaxy M31s smartphone with 64-megapixel quad-camera in India on July 30 South Korean electronics giant Samsung will launch its latest smartphone in the M-series - the Galaxy M31s - in India on Thursday (July 30).

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Samsung reports Q2 earnings with sales of ~$44.5B, down 5.6% YoY, but an operating profit of ~$6.8B, up 23.5% YoY, as demand for memory chips increased (Cho Mu-Hyun/ZDNet)

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Horoscope Today: Astrological prediction for July 30, what's in store for Aries,...

Horoscope Today: Are the stars lined up in your favour? Find out the astrological prediction for Aries, Leo, Virgo, Libra and other zodiac signs for July 30.

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During hearing, Rep. David Cicilline confronted Mark Zuckerberg on the spread of misinfo on Facebook, saying it has grown too big to contain dangerous content (Justin Wise/The Hill)

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Amazon emails released by the antitrust subcommittee show Amazon's plan to weaken Diapers.com before buying its parent company Quidsi in 2010 (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Tim Cook defended Apple's removal of rival screen time apps from the App Store when questioned during the hearing, saying Apple was concerned for kids' privacy (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Emails between Eddie Cue and other Apple execs from 2011, revealed in House hearing, show Apple considered 40% cut of first year digital content subscriptions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google face claims of 'harmful' power The executives of the four US tech giants defend their records at a five-hour hearing in Congress. July 30, 2020 at 05:29AM

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Young people 'feel anxiety and terror' using fitness apps A study of young people finds a fine line between getting results and becoming "obsessed". July 30, 2020 at 04:55AM

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Q&A with the new CEO of NYT Meredith Levien on establishing the paper as a world-class digital product and technology company (Ken Doctor/Nieman Lab)

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International Friendship Day 2020: Wishes, images, quotes and greetings to share...

Friends are always around to lighten the mood when tensions are high or as an emotional sounding board when we need to rant about our life’s misgivings. Here are some quotes and wishes you can share with them, to express your appreciation, from the comfort and safety of your home.

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Turkey's MPs vote to tighten grip on social media Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube will now need to comply with requests to remove content. July 29, 2020 at 03:13PM

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Madonna's Instagram account flagged for spreading misinformation The pop star was censured for sharing a video about a coronavirus conspiracy theory. July 29, 2020 at 02:14PM

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