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Google Debit Card, Zoom Burnout

•  Google is working on a debit card to rival Apple card
•  Google posts testing center maps
•  Zoom burnout is now a thing
•  Microsoft: how to preserve privacy while tracking COVID-19
•  Amazon shuts down 6,000 accounts for price gouging
•  Twitter tried to tell us that the government is spying on you. A judge just said they can't.
•  Tubi is mining credit bureaus to target ads at you
•  Palantir will track COVID-19 for Trump
•  Is Twitter good again?
•  Fortnite on Google Play
•  Stuntmen on Twitter

Picks of the Week

•  Leo's Tool: How-To: Data Tracking for a Sourdough Starter - Twilio
•  Stacey's Thing: Folding@Home on a Pi
•  Jeff's Numbers: Twitter discovers White Castle paté

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Links

• Google working on a smart debit card
• Google says it is now displaying information for over 2,000 COVID-19 testing centers
• Google displays unemployment benefit details based on your state
• Facebook's biggest investment: $5.7b for 10% of India's Jio
• Amazon has suspended 6,000 seller accounts globally for coronavirus price gouging
• U.S. judge blocks Twitter's bid to reveal govt surveillance requests
• Snooty Times journos ask: Is Twitter good?
• Tubi taps credit bureau for personalized streaming TV ads | FierceVideo
• Gmail now blocking 18 million Coronavirus scams every day
• Microsoft's security stance
• Peter Thiel’s controversial Palantir is helping build a coronavirus tracking tool for the Trump admin
• Senator demands Tim Cook be personally accountable for any contact tracing privacy failure
• Head of Postal Workers Union Says Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months
• Jeff post on the open information ecosystem of medicine and what we have to learn from it
• Jeff Twittertyphoon on awful NYTimes reporting on a preprint, relevant to the post above
• Zoom to revamp bug bounty program, bring in more security experts
• Google makes ‘Hey Google’ sensitivity setting official, gradually rolling out
• Google Fi gets iPhone eSIM support
• Google Meet adding Gmail integration, grid layout, improved low-light quality, more
• YouTube Music to improve music discovery with new Explore tab
• Google Play Store pushes health/fitness apps, Android TV gets ‘stay mindful & fit’ row
• Google Meet’s Zoom-like gallery view is rolling out now globally
• Free 'Sonos Radio' streaming music service launched with 60,000 radio stations
• Fortnite' is finally available through the Google Play Store
• Quarantined stuntmen
• How-To: Data Tracking for a Sourdough Starter - Twilio
• Folding@Home on a Pi
• Twitter discovers White Castle pate