ICANN:
ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital  —  Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public I…

Monica Chin / The Verge:
Reddit has disabled its chat room feature, Start Chatting, a day after launch due to “several errors” in rollout and moderators’ concerns over lack of control  —  The company says the rollout had s…

Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet:
IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever  —  Shipment volumes suffered its largest year over year decline in the first quarter.  —&…

Benjamin Romano / The Seattle Times:
Amazon tells its Seattle and Bellevue employees already working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2”  —  Amazon told its corporate emplo…

Joseph Cox / VICE:
The UN’s social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals  —  This week a division of the United Nations announced its n…

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Walmart is piloting a 2-hour “Express” grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee; plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ “personal shoppers”  —  Record usage of grocer…

Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review:
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted  —  Pandemic conspiracy theorists are using the Wayback…

Vaping is a controversial habit: it certainly has its downsides, but anecdotally it’s a fantastic smoking cessation aid. The thing is, until behavioral scientists know a bit more about who does it, when, how much, and other details, its use will continue to be something of a mystery. That’s where the PuffPacket comes in. Designed […]

William Gallagher / AppleInsider:
Apple Q2: services hit an all-time record of $13.35B, up from $11.45B in Q2 2019, as Wearables, Home and Accessories grew to $6.3B, compared to $5.13B last year  —  While the coronavirus has affected …

The nonprofit has identified hundreds of profiles that espouse hate, with little attempt from the gaming platform to stop them.