Mozilla and Scroll team up to take on online advertising
The Mozilla Foundation, creators of the popular Mozilla web browser, and Scroll, a startup offering a subscription service that allows users to read articles on news sites without seeing advertisements, have teamed up to offer users Firefox Better Web with Scroll, which combines Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection with Scroll's ad-free browsing experience.
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Google plans to pay publishers for news content
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Microsoft replacing journalists with Artificial Intelligence
Tech giant Microsoft announced that the company is laying off dozens of journalists and editors at its Microsoft News and MSN organizations. The layoffs are part of a bigger push by Microsoft to rely on artificial intelligence to pick news and content that’s presented on MSN.com, inside Microsoft’s Edge browser, and in the company’s various Microsoft News apps.“Like all companies, we evaluate our business regularly,” says a Microsoft spokesperson
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UK National Health Service releasing coronavirus contact tracing app … without using Apple API
Unfortunately, the app will not use of the Apple/Google privacy-conscious exposure notification framework, and instead the NHS are rolling their own solution, as reported in a statement to BBC News today. The NHS app will send exposure events to a centralized server, which means it will necessitate that users share more information than if they had adopted the official Exposure Notification API, which Apple and Google are evangelizing.
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D-Wave provides COVID-19 researchers with free access
The Canadian quantum computing startup D-Wave has announced that they will provide free cloud access to their quantum processors for any researchers that are working to develop solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. This includes not just pharmaceutical research but also research that seeks to solve logistical problems, diagnostics or contagion modeling.
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