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How IT companies in India transitioned 4M employees to work remotely, including by moving desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: How IT companies in India transitioned 4M employees to work remotely, including by moving desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes  —  IT companies had to move desktops that employees were using at their workplaces to their homes as they could not procure laptops in multiple thousands at

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Innovative leaders must practice ‘radical empathy’ — especially in times of isolation

{$inline_image}Now that millions are at home to help stop the spread of COVID-19, every organization, from the scrappiest basement startup to the most sprawling enterprise, is suddenly adapting to working on distributed teams, with remote clients and customers — a great many either alone or with family and housemates in total isolation for an indefinite

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Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange (Alexander Behrens/Decrypt)

Alexander Behrens / Decrypt: Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source of signed price data for BTC-USD and ETH-USD markets sourced from the Coinbase Pro exchange  —  San Francisco-based Coinbase has released a DeFi pricing oracle fed by the Coinbase Pro exchange and secured by advanced Coinbase infrastructure.  —  Ethereum Coinbase announces Coinbase Oracle, a source

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Apple says it found no evidence of hackers exploiting the newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says it found no evidence of hackers exploiting the newly discovered vulnerabilities in the Mail app for iPhone and iPad  —  – It saw no immediate threat to users after investigating  — Hundreds of millions worldwide use Apple’s mobile devices  —  Apple Inc. said it found … Apple says it

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Slack says it will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, will continue to pay contractors and hourly workers their regular wages (Paayal Zaveri/Business Insider)

{$inline_image} Paayal Zaveri / Business Insider: Slack says it will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, will continue to pay contractors and hourly workers their regular wages  —  – Slack will not reopen its offices until at least September 1 of this year, and is committed to continue paying

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Tech companies cut hiring, with analysts seeing ~20% drops in job openings between mid-March and mid-April, steep drops in supply chain logistics and delivery (J.R. Reed/CNBC)

J.R. Reed / CNBC: Tech companies cut hiring, with analysts seeing ~20% drops in job openings between mid-March and mid-April, steep drops in supply chain logistics and delivery  —  – Despite the massive shift to remote work and the surge in demand for certain online services, the tech industry has seen a widespread drawdown in

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Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19 (Tom Simonite/Wired)

Tom Simonite / Wired: Low paying but accessible jobs in crowd work, such as tagging photos and filling out surveys, are seeing a boom on platforms like Mechanical Turk since COVID-19  —  People who’ve lost jobs and are stuck indoors are turning to crowd work—filling out online surveys and transcribing audio for less than the

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