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AT&T says it has restored service to 60% of Puerto Rico's population, launches limited LTE connectivity in remote areas in partnership with Project Loon — About a month after Hurricane Maria's devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, and a couple of weeks after the FCC gave clearance …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Google says it plans to take a percentage of fees for new subscriptions that media publishers get via its upcoming subscriber targeting tools — Google plans to share revenues with publishers which benefit from the company's new digital subscription tools, in a scheme comparable to its successful advertising revenue model.| Raj Mukherjee / Indeed Blog: |
Survey of 1,011 US tech workers: 43% worry about losing their job due to age, 87% say diversity possibly or definitely has a positive impact on performance — In many cultures, elders are held in high regard as a source of wisdom. — In the world of tech, it often seems—not so much.
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| Sophie Daniel / Motherboard: |
Physical penetration tester and infosec consultant on how she uses social engineering to gain access into high security facilities — Sophie is a physical penetration tester and information security consultant. She specializes in social engineering security assessments including physical, voice (vishing) and text (phishing).
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Profile of David Hall, CEO and founder of Velodyne, who designed the rotating LIDAR system now used by 13 automakers and at least 22 big tech firms — No matter what it took, David Hall was going to kill that clown. He maneuvered Drillzilla for another ramming run.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine's founders are back with HQ, a live trivia game show app — “It's a way to give people a chance to have fun, maybe win, maybe learn something new.” That's how former Vine co-founder Rus Yusupov describes his new trivia game show app HQ, which feels like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire meets Facebook Live.
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SlashGear, Engadget, and Tubefilter
| Lauren Kirchner / ProPublica: |
Federal judge unseals source code for disputed DNA analysis software developed by New York City's crime lab after motion by ProPublica — A federal judge this week unsealed the source code for a software program developed by New York City's crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing complex DNA evidence.| Mark DeCambre / MarketWatch: |
Bitcoin price passes $6,000 as its total market value hits $100B+ for the first time — The world's most prominent digital currency was on track to mark a fresh milestone on Friday, with bitcoin rallying and putting the cyber currency in position to hit a total market value of around $100 billion.
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Quartz, Fortune, Forbes, Fortune, Futurism, CoinSpeaker, CNET, and Business Insider. Tweets: @galtsgirl
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober — Venture capitalists Dave McClure, Justin Caldbeck and Chris Sacca, SoFi CEO Mike Cagney and a top Uber engineer have all been accused of sexual impropriety in the last six months as a growing number of women …
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USA Today, BuzzFeed, Ars Technica, USA Today, Business Insider, 512tech, CNET, Sara Winge, francine hardaway, BBC, Gizmodo, New York Magazine, Boing Boing, Wired, and Silicon Valley Business …
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| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
Profile of Judge William H. Alsup of Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber, who ruled against API copyright and taught himself to program in QuickBASIC — On May 18th, 2012, attorneys for Oracle and Google were battling over nine lines of code in a hearing before Judge William H. Alsup of the northern district of California.| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
Susan Fowler reflects on the impact of her essay that ignited harassment revelations, says she's working with a talent agency on a movie about her experiences — In her first interview since the essay that started a wave of sexual-harassment revelations, Susan Fowler tells her life story and looks to the future.
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Mashable and IndieWire
Tweets: @gretchencarlson, @susanthesquark, @indiewire, @kimmaicutler, and @lkherman
| Sherri L. Smith / Tom's Guide: |
Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset review: easy setup, broad compatibility, but apps and games are lacking, and it costs as much as the more capable Oculus Rift — Just when you were getting used to virtual and augmented reality, here comes Microsoft to muddy up the waters with its new mixed-reality headsets.
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Laptop Mag, The Verge, CNET, Paul Thurrott, Windows Central, Road to VR, TheStreet, Road to VR, and Microsoft Store. Thanks:@mspoonauer
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