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Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launches a $1B climate innovation fund — The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas …
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Google announces Premium Support plan for enterprise cloud customers, starting at $12.5K per month with 15-minute response times for mission-critical situations — Keeping up its push to get more large enterprises to use its cloud, Google LLC today announced a new Premium Support plan …
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Turkey lifted a two-and-a-half year ban on Wikipedia on Wednesday, restoring access after the country's top court ruled that blocking it was unconstitutional — The country's top court had ruled that the move was unconstitutional. — The Turkish government lifted a two-and-a-half-year ban …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Internal memo: Mozilla lays off ~70 after its 2019 plans to boost revenue streams outside of search, like new subscription products, did not pan out — Mozilla laid off about 70 employees today, TechCrunch has learned. — In an internal memo, Mozilla chairwoman and interim CEO Mitchell …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Fitbit confirms it has begun the rollout of blood oxygen monitoring feature to some of its wearables — Fitbit's devices from recent years have blood oxygen monitoring (SpO2) hardware, but they haven't used it — until now. Users on Reddit and elsewhere have noticed that their Versa …
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
As tech becomes the dominant force in the modern economy, Silicon Valley's culture since 1970s of nimble startups successfully challenging incumbents is fading — For decades, whole regions, nations even, have tried to model themselves on a particular ideal of innovation, the lifeblood of the modern economy.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that makes goal setting and management software, raises $30M Series C led by a16z, less than a year after a $23M Series B — WorkBoard, a SaaS startup that provides goal setting and management software to other companies, announced today that it has closed … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook's “shameful” behaviour, saying it doesn't “care about truth” and schmoozes Trump's admin to avoid taxes and antitrust action — - During her weekly press briefing, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district includes tech-heavy San Francisco …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
In a tweet, Trump criticizes Apple for refusing to unlock phones of violent criminals and says his administration helps Apple “all of the time” on trade — - In a tweet, president Donald Trump addressed the conflict between the FBI and Apple over locked iPhones used by the suspected Pensacola shooter.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google sets timeline for phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems by July 2022; the change won't affect Chrome extensions — Back in 2016, Google announced that it was killing Chrome Apps in favor of the web. This process began with that category disappearing …
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Following a BBC investigation, Twitter apologizes for letting ads be micro-targeted using keywords like “transphobic”, “white supremacists”, and “anti-gay” — Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bose to close all 119 of its retail stores in N. America, Europe, Japan, and Australia due to the shift to online shopping but will maintain stores elsewhere — The move will result in hundreds of employees being laid off — Bose plans to close its entire retail store footprint in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
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| New York Times: |
Analysis: US-China “phase one” trade deal has wins for both sides, but questions remain about how committed China is and areas like cybersecurity aren't covered — The agreement includes some wins for President Trump, but implementing and enforcing the deal could be difficult.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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