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Fake Netflix and Disney+ websites are exploiting streaming surge

More than 700 fake websites mimicking Netflix and Disney+ signup pages have been created seeking to harvest personal information from consumers during the coronavirus lockdown streaming boom. Mimecast identified around 700 suspicious websites mimicking Netflix that appeared between April 6 and April 13. The world’s most popular streaming service has predicted it will add seven […]

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Facebook will expand its symptom tracking survey globally to measure the spread of COVID-19

Facebook has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to launch an interactive Covid-19 map that shows the estimated percentage of people exhibiting symptoms of the virus on a county-by-county basis. The map uses aggregated public data from a survey conducted by Carnegie Mellon University Delphi Research Center. Worth reiterating is the fact that it only shows […]

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Instagram cofounders built a website to track state-by-state spread of COVID-19

Instagram’s founders, who have been mostly out of the public eye since leaving Facebook in 2018, introduced a website that gives live state-by-state updates on the spread of Covid-19 across the US.RT.live uses a statistic called an effective reproduction number, which tracks the average number of people who catch the coronavirus from a single infected […]

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Microsoft signs multiyear deal with the NBA for Azure and Surface

Microsoft has signed a multiyear deal with National Basketball Association (NBA) to become the official AI, cloud, and laptop provider for the league. The deal will see the NBA using Microsoft’s Azure platform to broadcast live and on-demand basketball games, with personalized content. “Our goal, working with Microsoft, is to create customized content that allows […]