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Sources: a list of seven employees who quit Google over Dragonfly, including some engineers with up to 11 years tenure, is circulating inside Google — A list that names seven employees who say they quit their jobs at Google over a lack of corporate transparency is circulating within the company's ranks.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others — What the leak of a video says about this moment at Alphabet — It's an unhappy time at Google.
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| Katherine Ellen Foley / Quartz: |
The FDA cleared the Apple Watch Series 4's heart monitoring abilities based on Apple-backed studies, but mandated Apple label the risks of inaccurate readings — When Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 yesterday (Sept. 12), the device received a lot of attention for its health-monitoring capabilities.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Lobe, a San Francisco-based startup that lets users build machine learning models using a visual interface with no coding required — Microsoft today announced it has acquired Lobe, creator of a platform for building custom deep learning models using a visual interface …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How The Weather Channel and The Future Group used the Unreal Engine to create a stunning depiction of Hurricane Florence's storm surge — AT A CERTAIN point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families — A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Kids app adds an “older” filter for profiles of kids 8-12 and adds ability for parents to whitelist channels and videos on Android, with iOS coming soon — YouTube Kids' latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
The bubble around self-driving cars has turned into a trough of disillusionment; firms are now factoring for autonomous driving tech to be viable much later — The bubble around self-driving cars turns into a ‘trough of disillusionment’; firms refactor for much later arrival
Tweets: @gerberkawasaki, @triketora, and @mims
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart's Jet.com relaunches its website to focus on products and services localized to cities, starting with NYC, and launches three-hour grocery delivery — Jet.com, the e-commerce site Walmart acquired in 2016 for $3 billion, is relaunching itself today with an upgraded look and assortment … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia says it has launched Project Maglev, an initiative to use its Drive AI platform to enable product development in industries like robotics and health care — Nvidia is using the underlying architecture of its Drive autonomous vehicle platform to enable product development in other verticals …
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| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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| Lisa Marie Segarra / Fortune: |
Twitch hires its first head of diversity and inclusion from Vimeo, also a new human resources chief and CFO; it now has four women in its seven-person C-suite — Twitch is shaking things up. The Amazon-owned service for streaming video of people playing video games just announced hires …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook has built and deployed an AI tool, SapFix, that identifies bugs in code, tests patches, and suggests the best to apply, will share with devs eventually — Facebook has quietly built and deployed an artificial intelligence programming tool called SapFix that scans code …
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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
A look at Standard Cognition's tech, which uses cameras and AI to track who people are and what they buy, as it opens San Francisco's first cashierless store — A start-up uses visual tracking and behavioral data to operate a new San Francisco market, which lets shoppers walk out unimpeded.
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