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Companies are increasingly using employee survey data, from services like Perceptyx that offer a "union vulnerability index", to predict and squash organizing (Sarah Kessler/OneZero )

Trump says he will ban TikTok in the US

A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help (Kevin Collier/NBC News)

Google updates its "Why this ad" feature, now "About this ad", to show verified names of advertisers and is testing "trust tokens" to replace 3rd-party cookies (Mike Schulman/The Keyword)

William English, who alongside Douglas Engelbart built the first computer with a mouse and showed it at "The Mother of All Demos", dies at 91 (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Trump told reporters he will use executive power to ban TikTok

President Trump says he will ban TikTok in the US through executive action as soon as Saturday (CNBC)

When companies have too many smaller teams, slicing problems too thinly, they face high coordination costs as teams become too dependent on each other (Kislay Verma)

Lemonaid Health, which offers an on-demand service for accessing health care online, raises $33M Series B, bringing its total raised to $55M (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

Apple acquires Mobeewave, whose app lets shoppers tap their credit card or phone on a smartphone to make a payment; one source says the deal is worth ~$100M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Disrupt 2020 early-bird savings extended until next week

COVID-19 has pushed museums to improve their online offerings, including virtual tours, as they explore potential business models based on digital content (Daniel Grant/Wall Street Journal)

Australia unveils plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for news

New games 2020: game release dates for console and PC

Best upcoming games 2020: the biggest games coming to console and PC