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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources: prototypes of Google's Dragonfly search engine for China link the search app on users' Android devices to their phone numbers — Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier …
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Engadget, CNET, BGR, The Verge, Beyond Search, Neowin, Fortune, Android Police, and Slashdot
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
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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Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @theintercept, @natashakhanhk, @rj_gallagher, @wonkvj, @ceodonovan, and @buzzfeednews
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Airware, a drone startup that has raised $118M from Andreessen Horowitz, Google's GV, Kleiner Perkins, and others, is shutting down — Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Mary Meeker and three partners are leaving Kleiner Perkins to form a new firm; sources describe clashes between early and late stage groups at Kleiner Perkins — Meeker is leading an exodus in a huge split at one of Silicon Valley's most famous firms. — Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: North Korean operatives are evading US sanctions and earning millions by using fake identities on services like Github, Slack, and Paypal — Hiding behind social-media fake profiles, a group linked to Pyongyang solicited technology work to send hard currency back home
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TechCrunch, U.S. Department …, Axios, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @alastairgale, @xinwenfan, @wsj, and @dnvolz
| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News: |
European website finds that a free app is exposing the exact locations of Grindr's 3.6M+ active users via unauthorized access to Grindr's private API — The gay dating app Grindr is still exposing the precise location of its more than 3.6 million active users although it has long been aware of the issue.
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Engadget, Queer Europe, The Register, and BetaNews
Tweets: @itsnicolenguyen, @itsnicolenguyen, @buzzfeednews, and @itsnicolenguyen
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth review of Android 9 Pie, which comes with a lot of useful user-facing changes and, maybe, improved battery life, but the gestures remain a mess — The time has come for our annual deep dive (~19,000 words) into the latest Android release. — It's time for another big Android release …
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9to5Google and Forbes
| Chromium Blog: |
Google adds support for fingerprint sensors on Android phones and Touch ID on Macs to Chrome 70 beta, allowing developers to use biometrics for authentication — Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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The Verge, Engadget, CNET, The Register, Gizmodo, Android Police, TechSpot, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and 9to5Google
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Study: Facebook engagement for sites identified as publishing fake news dropped by 50%+ between 2016 election and July 2018, while shares on Twitter kept rising — Facebook's efforts to reduce misinformation in its news feed since the 2016 election have opened the company to all manner of criticism …
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Engadget, The Verge, Stanford University …, and The Interface
| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday — The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period … | 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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Motherboard, The Verge, KnowTechie, CNET, CNET, Mashable, TechSpot, VentureBeat, and Slate
Tweets: @weatherchannel, @blkahn, @slmandel, @dmartosko, @zachbraff, @dburka, and @wired
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Profile of Procore, a cloud-based platform for the $1T US construction industry that has raised $200M+ and is thinking about IPO after barely surviving in 2008 — n a quiet street in Montecito, California, a suburb of Santa Barbara, Procore CEO Craig “Tooey” Courtemanche is considering how best to break into his own house.Sponsor Posts
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