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Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told peers in memo about his departure to “intentionally not collect data where possible” and be willing to pick sides on moral issues — In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored …
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Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, who led the company's investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving at the end of the year — Colin Stretch's announced exit marks the second high-level departure in recent weeks — Facebook Inc.'s FB 1.78% top lawyer …
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Waymo partners with Walmart, AutoNation, Avis, and others to ferry their customers to various locations in Phoenix, Arizona — Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google's former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country's largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Steam is rolling out Steam Chat, its new text and voice features that compete with gaming chat app Discord, to all users — In a bid to keep Discord from dominating the social space around PC gaming — Steam has begun rolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friends list, to all users beginning today.| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese government has withdrawn its approval for Facebook's new subsidiary in the country — SHANGHAI — For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. — For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang.| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Facebook set up subsidiary in China with registered capital of $30M; when asked, it said they are interested in setting up an innovation hub to support startups — BEIJING (Reuters) - Facebook has set up a subsidiary in China with registered capital of $30 million, according … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
BitTorrent confirms it has been acquired by blockchain startup Tron; filings suggest about $126M in cash was paid for the company — File sharing veteran BitTorrent has finally confirmed that it has a new owner: “We are excited to announce that Tron has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent … | Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
Apple issues a fix for 2018 MacBook Pro CPU throttling/thermal management issues via macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update — Apple has been catching heat over the performance of its new MacBook Pro laptops, but the company hopes a new software update will cool off outraged power users.
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G Suite adds Grammar Suggestions in Google Docs, voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware customers, and its Smart Reply feature to Hangouts Chat — At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google debuted several new capabilities for the productivity suite, which now has more than 4 million customers.
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Grubhub to acquire Boston-based LevelUp, which offers a platform to manage digital ordering, payments and loyalty, for $390M in cash — Grubhub announced this morning that it's agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. — Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Chrome 68, rolling out today, shows a “not secure” warning for any HTTP website; in October the warning's color will change to red — Three and a half years ago, Google predicted the day would come when Chrome would warn us all of the security risks of using the web's seminal HTTP technology …
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Q&A with Sen. Ron Wyden, who co-wrote Section 230 of Communications Decency Act, on privacy, content moderation, First Amendment, and tech giants like Facebook — There may not be a lawmaker in Congress who has done more to shape the internet than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Washington AG says Facebook signed legal agreement to change ad platform so third parties can't discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation — The agreement with Washington state forces Facebook to make nationwide changes — Facebook has signed a new …
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Uber begins putting self-driving cars back on public roads in Pittsburgh, but only in non-autonomous mode and driven manually by humans — Uber is putting its autonomous vehicles back on Pittsburgh's city streets, four months after a fatal accident involving one of its self-driving cars prompted …
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DARPA sets aside $75M for partners under the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, which is expected to receive $1.5B over the years to fund new ideas in chip tech — The Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is throwing a event around its “Electronics Resurgence Initiative,” …
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Snapchat has been showing non-exclusive video shows from publishers like BuzzFeed, Wired, GQ, and Complex Networks in its Discover feed since June — Complex Networks' “Sneaker Shopping,” which follows host Joe La Puma as he goes shopping with celebrities ranging from Kevin Hart to Marshawn Lynch … Sponsor Posts
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