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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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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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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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| 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 …
Tweets: @petergschmidt, @tomkarren, @howardlindzon, @shiraovide, @yoda, @timcohn, and @joshconstine
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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| 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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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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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.| 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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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Anaplan, which makes cloud-based business planning software, has filed for IPO, one week after its CFO joined the company from Tesla, where he was for one month — A week ago Dave Morton left Tesla, where he spent just one month, to become chief financial officer of Anaplan. Now he's preparing for an IPO.
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Tweets: @alexbarinka, @alex, @alex, @alex, @levynews, @jordannovet, @alex, @alexbarinka, and @alex
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will shut down Fabric, the mobile app development tool it acquired in 2017 from Twitter, in mid-2019 after it migrates Fabric's users to Firebase — On Apple's iPhone day this week, Google announced it is killing Inbox by Gmail. But that's not the only service … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Mercedes-Benz to integrate SoundHound's AI voice assistant in A-Class cars soon; the AI assistant is also coming to Kia and Hyundai cars in 2019 — Drivers of new Mercedes-Benz A-Class vehicles will soon be able to talk to their cars. And the cars will respond.
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Tencent-backed content aggregator Qutoutiao closes up 128% after raising $84M in its IPO, the biggest first-day increase of a significant US IPO in 2018 — - ‘Fun Headlines’ news aggregator rises as much as 191 percent — Downsized, bottom-range IPO leads to biggest first-day rise| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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