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SoftBank Vision Fund records $17.7B loss in the last fiscal year after writing down investments including WeWork and Uber, reports a net loss of $8.96B (Pavel Alpeyev/Bloomberg)

Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: SoftBank Vision Fund records $17.7B loss in the last fiscal year after writing down investments including WeWork and Uber, reports a net loss of $8.96B  —  SoftBank Group Corp. said its Vision Fund business lost 1.9 trillion yen ($17.7 billion) last fiscal year after writing down the value of investments …

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Alibaba's Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank board, as he pulls back from formal business roles to focus on philanthropy; SoftBank to propose three new appointments (Sam Nussey/Reuters)

Sam Nussey / Reuters: Alibaba’s Jack Ma resigns from SoftBank board, as he pulls back from formal business roles to focus on philanthropy; SoftBank to propose three new appointments  —  TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp said on Monday that Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma will resign from its board … Alibaba's Jack Ma resigns from

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Google Meet, which became free to use at the end of April, passes 50M installs on the Play Store, after passing 5M at the beginning of March (Hagop Kavafian/Android Police)

Hagop Kavafian / Android Police: Google Meet, which became free to use at the end of April, passes 50M installs on the Play Store, after passing 5M at the beginning of March  —  Due to the coronavirus pandemic, most people are stuck at home and looking for ways to keep in touch with each other.

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Apple says it's reopening 25 US stores this week plus 12 stores in Canada, adding to nearly 100 global locations that have reopened so far (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Apple says it’s reopening 25 US stores this week plus 12 stores in Canada, adding to nearly 100 global locations that have reopened so far  —  – Company has 100 stores back in operation after virus closures  — Plans temperature checks and face coverings at every location Apple says it's reopening 25 US stores

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Chinese state-backed funds invest $2.25B in chip factory of local company Semiconductor Manufacturing International, amid US move to limit chips sold to Huawei (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Chinese state-backed funds invest $2.25B in chip factory of local company Semiconductor Manufacturing International, amid US move to limit chips sold to Huawei  —  – State-backed funds invest in Semiconductor Manufacturing plant  — China is aiming to increase monthly capacity by 5 times Chinese state-backed funds invest .25B in chip factory of local company

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Hackaday Links: May 17, 2020

Consider it the “Scarlet Letter” of our time. An MIT lab is developing a face mask that lights up to alert others when the wearer has COVID-19. The detection technology is based on sensors that were developed for the Ebola virus scare and uses fluorescently tagged DNA fragments freeze-dried onto absorbent strips built into the

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Edison Mail says it has "rolled back" an iOS app update that gave a "small percentage" of users full access to other users' email accounts (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Edison Mail says it has “rolled back” an iOS app update that gave a “small percentage” of users full access to other users’ email accounts  —  Edison Mail is one of the more popular third-party email applications for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, but an apparent bug in the service is raising

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Secret Service investigating a crime ring inundating unemployment offices with fake claims

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Secret Service says it is investigating a Nigerian crime ring that has been using Americans’ stolen identities to file fraudulently for unemployment benefits, according to Krebs on Security. Authorities say members of the ring were able to exploit weak security measures within many states’ unemployment systems

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While the pandemic has boosted recruitment at Chinese tech companies in some sectors, many smaller online companies have experienced job cuts and hiring freezes (South China Morning Post)

South China Morning Post: While the pandemic has boosted recruitment at Chinese tech companies in some sectors, many smaller online companies have experienced job cuts and hiring freezes  —  In the first quarter of 2020, the number of Chinese recruitment postings across all industries fell 22.6 per cent compared … While the pandemic has boosted

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