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Stories discussed this week:

  • Tinder CEO Elie Seidman on finding love during the pandemic
  • It’s hard to figure out how often people without symptoms spread COVID-19
  • Inside Nextdoor’s ‘Karen problem’
  • Nextdoor tells community leads to allow Black Lives Matter discussions after exposé
  • Contact tracing programs have to work with local communities to be successful
  • Apple launches $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
  • Android 11 beta: all the announcements
  • Android 11: conversations, bubbles, and making sense of complexity
  • Five new features Android 11 borrows from the iPhone
  • Android 11 may be the best texting platform if you use multiple chat apps
  • Apple’s virtual WWDC keynote will take place on June 22nd at 1PM ET
  • Apple will announce move to ARM-based Macs later this month, says report
  • Apple pulls podcast apps in China after government pressure
  • The new Sonos app and S2 update are available now
  • IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology
  • Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology for the next year 
  • Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law

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