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How data sources like satellite images and internet traffic are helping researchers track the impact of COVID-19 outbreaks better than official government data (Gian Volpicelli/WIRED UK)

{$inline_image} Gian Volpicelli / WIRED UK: How data sources like satellite images and internet traffic are helping researchers track the impact of COVID-19 outbreaks better than official government data  —  Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19  —  Something was wrong with Malaysia’s internet. How data sources like

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Why every online store needs a customer service chatbot

In recent times, organizations have been competing with one another to implement chatbots for various reasons, including enhancing customer experience, streamlining processes, and fueling the demand for digital and innovative technologies. Cognitive technologies such as chatbots have become an apt candidate for end-use application as they have high automation feasibility, high potential of accuracy, low

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Israeli cybersecurity firm Checkmarx, owned by Insight Partners, to be bought by PE firm Hellman & Friedman at $1.15B valuation; Insight to keep minority stake (Michael Novinson/CRN)

Michael Novinson / CRN: Israeli cybersecurity firm Checkmarx, owned by Insight Partners, to be bought by PE firm Hellman & Friedman at $1.15B valuation; Insight to keep minority stake  —  Application security testing vendor Checkmarx has grown its headcount to more than 700 people, up 28 percent from 534 employees … Israeli cybersecurity firm Checkmarx,

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Satya Nadella, whose 23-year-old son is a legally blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy weakening his immune system, on Microsoft's role in slowing COVID-19 (Geoff Baker/The Seattle Times)

Geoff Baker / The Seattle Times: Satya Nadella, whose 23-year-old son is a legally blind quadriplegic with cerebral palsy weakening his immune system, on Microsoft’s role in slowing COVID-19  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits to feeling the personal anxieties many of his employees have shared about the coronavirus pandemic. Satya Nadella, whose 23-year-old son

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Facebook's efforts to help governments, emergency response orgs, SMBs, its employees, and users during the pandemic could help improve its tarnished reputation (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Facebook’s efforts to help governments, emergency response orgs, SMBs, its employees, and users during the pandemic could help improve its tarnished reputation  —  – Over the past few weeks, Facebook has been quick to launch a number of efforts to help combat the spread of the coronavirus … Facebook's efforts to

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The Tezos Foundation says it has agreed to settle for $25M a class action suit that alleged it ran an unregistered securities sale through its $232M ICO (Liam Frost/Decrypt)

Liam Frost / Decrypt: The Tezos Foundation says it has agreed to settle for $25M a class action suit that alleged it ran an unregistered securities sale through its $232M ICO  —  The project behind a $232 million initial coin offering has decided the lawsuit is too “expensive and time-consuming.”  —  Tezos  —  In brief

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