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Uber partners with telemedicine service Ro to give US workers free COVID assessments, as Lyft partners with One Medical for one month trial memberships (Dara Kerr/CNET)

ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital (ICANN)

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 (Monica Chin/The Verge)

IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever (Aimee Chanthadavong/ZDNet)

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" (Benjamin Romano/The Seattle Times)

The UN's social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals (Joseph Cox/VICE)

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" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted (Bobbie Johnson/MIT Technology Review)

The ‘PuffPacket’ could help researchers learn when, how and why people vape

Covid hoaxes are using a loophole to stay alive—even after being deleted

B2B challenger bank Finom raises $7M Seed from Target Global and General Catalyst

Biloba lets you chat with a doctor if you have questions about your children

African fintech firm Flutterwave launches SME e-commerce portal