Tech Responses to COVID-19 Challenges

How Facebook is coping with Corona, Google Podcasts comes to iOS, ad blocking officially comes to Safari, when Apple thinks it can re-open stores, Singapore open-sources it’s Corona-contact-tracing app, and have your screen time notifications horrified you this week? You’re not alone.

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• Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic (NYTimes)
• The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse
• More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America (NYTimes)
• Google Podcasts is finally available of iOS (TechCrunch)
• Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking (The Verge)
• Apple May Start Reopening Stores in First Half of April (Bloomberg)
• iPhone Makers Suspend India Production Due to Lockdown (Bloomberg)
• Coronavirus: S'pore Government to make its contact-tracing app freely available to developers worldwide (The Straight Times)
• Court in Telegram case blocks gram token issuance, says token distribution likely violates securities law (The Block)
• Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ (Washington Post)

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