Reuters
Amazon is hiring a further 75,000 workers.
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- $4. Amazon is now estimating it will spend over $500 million on increased wages.
- $4. The two companies say only public health authorities will be able to build apps that use their API.
- $4. The change signals easing pressure on Amazon's supply chain after a month of grappling with a surge in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
- $4. Google is working with the charity GiveDirectly, which is partly funded by Google's charitable arm, Google.org.
- $4. Researchers with security rating service NormShield have identified at least 362 new websites pushing questionable coronavirus drugs that have appeared since January.
- $4. The change is one of several Amazon is making to help its overwhelmed workers and infrastructure meet demand amid the coronavirus outbreak.
- $4 The new rating applies to all games with "any randomized elements, including loot boxes, gacha games, item or card packs, prize wheels, treasure chests, and more."
- $4. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has said the mistake was made because the company was scrambling to keep pace with heightened demand, and didn't follow its usual "best practices."
- $4. Lists of accounts were compiled using "credential stuffing" attacks, where hackers use leaked information from previous data breaches to try to hack into new accounts.
- $4. Apple is expected to launch two high-end iPhone models to replace the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, in addition to two lower end models to replace the iPhone 11.
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