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Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes:Profile of Larry Ellison, who has turned the Hawaiian island of Lanai into a data-powered wellness lab and is building a COVID-19 database for the White House  —  As Larry Ellison sits in one of several idyllic bubbles he has…

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:Zoom apologizes for routing some calls made in N. America through China, says it “mistakenly” allowed Chinese data centers to accept calls due to traffic spike  —  Hours after security researchers at Citizen Lab reported…

David McCabe / New York Times:A look at how tech's lobbying efforts in the US are quietly pushing for long-held goals in the frantic political and economic environment amid COVID-19 outbreak  —  Silicon Valley hasn't suffered from the same financial…

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:UK researchers are using Google's mobile location data collected from apps like Google Maps to help track and predict the spread of COVID-19 across Europe  —  - Data is anonymized and aggregated, can't track individuals  —…

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:Zoom will require passwords to enter calls via Meeting ID and will turn on Waiting Rooms by default to prevent trolls from disrupting calls, starting April 5  —  Zoom is making some drastic changes to prevent rampant abuse as…

Nick Statt / The Verge:US federal law enforcement warns that invading Zoom meetings to broadcast “disruptive content” will result in fines or possible imprisonment  —  Hacking into a conference call seems like a fun prank — until you get arrested …

Abhilash Kumar / Counterpoint Research:Global online music streaming grew 32% YoY in 2019, reaching 358M total subs; Spotify led with 31% market share of paid subs, followed by Apple Music at 19%  —  - Spotify continues to be the market leader and recorded…

Aliya Chaudhry / The Verge:Google temporarily rolls back its SameSite policy in Chrome, to allow stability for essential service websites that may not meet third party cookie requirements  —  Google says it wants to provide stability during the COVID-19…

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Qcraft, which is developing simulation software to help train autonomous vehicle systems, raises a seed round in the “dozens of millions”, led by IDG Capital  —  Qcraft, a robotics startup focused on autonomous vehicles (AV)…

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:Apple has acquired Dublin-based AI startup Voysis, which developed a platform for digital assistants to better understand people's natural language  —  - Company continues to buy AI, voice startups to improve Siri  —…

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:Apptopia and Braze study: with 59M global installs, Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Disney+ in Q1, but more time was spent on YouTube Kids  —  Netflix may still dominate global streaming, but Disney+ has made a huge…

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:Insight Partners closes its $9.5B Fund XI, says it will be “hyper-focused on supporting its portfolio companies” with ongoing and near-future funding  —  We're now several weeks into what has become a very big dip for the…

Bloomberg:Four Democratic senators send a letter to Apple asking whether its COVID-19 app and website comply with HIPAA, and seeking info on its government agreements  —  - Menendez, Harris, Booker, Blumenthal send letter to Cook  — Apple says it's…

Reuters:Internal docs: Amazon to postpone Prime Day at least until August, expects a potential $100M hit from excess devices it may now have to sell at a discount  —  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is postponing its major summer shopping event Prime…

Alicja Siekierska / Yahoo Finance:Justin Trudeau says Canada has signed an agreement with Amazon to distribute critical medical supplies across the country  —  Canada has signed an agreement with Amazon (  —  AMZN) to distribute critical medical…