Techmeme: About 200 Googlers protest placing of two of their colleagues on administrative leave over the actions they took opposing some of Google management's decisions (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Queenie Wong / CNET:

Facebook built a now discontinued internal app, report says between 2015 and 2016, that let employees identify colleagues and friends via facial recognition — Facebook , which has been under fire because of privacy concerns, said Thursday it built an internal app that allowed employees …

Source: Business Insider. More: Mashable, MSPoweruser, VentureBeat, and Seeking Alpha

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Cory Weinberg / The Information:

Source: Airbnb lost about $100M in Q2 2019, compared to the profit of $10M it made a year ago — Airbnb lost about $100 million before interest and taxes in the second quarter this year, a big swing from the profit of $10 million it made in the year-earlier period, according to financial information viewed by The Information.

Tweets: @coryweinberg, @modestproposal1, @edbott, and @eliotwb

Deirdre Bosa / CNBC:

Airbnb announces that COO Belinda Johnson will step down from her role in March 2020, but will join the company's board of directors as its ninth member

More: Airbnb Newsroom, Observer, Yahoo Finance, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @dee_bosa

Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire:

Amazon filed its formal protest over JEDI on Friday, citing a Fox News segment and a Trump rally as evidence of improper political pressure from the White House — Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft's victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract …

More: Washington Post, Vox, SiliconANGLE, Axios, and Fortune

Tweets: @keithboykin, @megawatts55, and @paulkrugman. Thanks:@taylor_soper

Tarleton Gillespie / Slate:

Every ad, political or commercial, should reveal its provenance, and all advertisers should stand by their ads and be held accountable for them — On Oct. 30, Twitter announced it would now prohibit political advertising on its platform. On Friday, it tried its best to explain exactly what that would mean.

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tweets: @bowlinearl and @frankpasquale

Ernie Smith / VICE:

As Slack gets criticism from power users for its WYSIWYG editor and plans an option to revert, a look at the history of Markdown, used by Slack's old interface — Slack just updated its longtime editor for its primary interface—and the rich-text result hints at a longstanding tension …

More: MSPoweruser. Tweets: @alexislloyd, @vice, @artemr, @shortformernie, @katienotopoulos, @carnage4life, and @wongmjane

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:

About 200 Googlers protest placing of two of their colleagues on administrative leave over the actions they took opposing some of Google management's decisions — - Company denies wrongdoing with two employees placed on leave — Culture of openness battered by Google's staff rebellion

More: Vox, CNET, OneZero, Forbes, Fast Company, Gizmodo, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @josheidelson

Rachel Metz / CNN:

How facial analysis software that classifies gender misidentifies trans and non-binary people, is inaccurate with people of color, and could harm these groups — San Francisco (CNN)Artificial intelligence doesn't know what to make of Os Keyes. — The 29-year-old graduate student is dark-haired …

More: KnowTechie

Kashmir Hill / New York Times:

A look at the Legal Aid Society of New York City's efforts to close the tech gap between public defenders and law enforcement with respect to digital forensics — Public defenders lack access to gadgets and software that could keep their clients out of jail. — On April 27, a woman in eastern Brooklyn called the police.

Tweets: @kashhill, @geomblog, @nytimes, and @tmluongo

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

FCC bans carriers from using federal subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE, considers ordering subsidy recipients to replace current Chinese equipment — The FCC is acting on its vow to keep Chinese technology out of American wireless networks. Commissioners have unanimously approved …

More: Federal Communications …, Reuters, Washington Post, Axios, Reuters, CNET, International Business Times, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, Politico, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, CRN, PCMag, Telecompaper, Light Reading, Light Reading, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, GeekWire, and MacDailyNews

Tweets: @repjimbanks, @sentedcruz, and @fcc

Alexandra Witze / Nature:

Experts say ITU's newly agreed 5G radio-frequency standards will interfere with weather satellite readings of water vapor, impacting weather forecasts worldwide — Meteorologists say international standards for wireless technology could degrade crucial satellite measurements of water vapour.

More: Washington Post, The Verge, Science, and WebProNews

Tweets: @alexwitze, @mikamckinnon, @alexwitze, and @alexwitze

Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:

Inside Spotify's plan to dominate audio by spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele, Mark Wahlberg and the Obamas — Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds …

More: Tubefilter. Tweets: @jimprosser, @john, @thr, and @trengriffin

Rita Liao / TechCrunch:

Profile of Dongtu, a China-based Giphy-like service that is baked into some 3,000 apps with chatting features, including WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and Weibo — With its own universe of homegrown social networks, e-commerce platforms and search engines, the Chinese internet is a world apart …

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