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In an open letter, 90+ Google employees join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China — We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google's effort to create …
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Tweets: @dropdragonfly, @kevinroose, @rj_gallagher, @amnesty, and @rj_gallagher. Thanks:@dropdragonfly
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, and claims 45% lower costs for some workloads — After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale on the cloud, Amazon Web Services just went ahead and designed its own.
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| Asha McLean / ZDNet: |
Amazon announces AWS Global Accelerator to boost performance across regions and AWS Transit Gateway, a tool to simplify network architecture and reduce overhead — The AWS Global Accelerator is expected to boost performance of global workloads and the AWS Transit Gateway is aimed at simplifying network architecture.
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AWS News Blog, AWS News Blog, The Register, GeekWire, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @nitin
| Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC: |
Uber fined ~$1.17M by British and Dutch authorities for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed the personal details of 2.7M British and 174K Dutch users — - Uber was fined a combined $1.17 million by British and Dutch authorities Tuesday for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Adobe: total sales through phones on Cyber Monday hit $2.2B, up from $1.4B last year, as total traffic to online stores from mobile phones rose to 47% — The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. — Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in its history, topping Prime Day's 100M+ products sold, with the new Echo Dot as the best seller — Amazon said on Tuesday it just had its biggest shopping day in the company's history on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26), based on the number of products sold worldwide.
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Current and former employees of news orgs sponsored by the blockchain startup Civil say they haven't received the compensation they were promised when hired — Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism. But so far, journalists working on its platform … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Pixel Slate review: nice hardware, including great speakers, but its Chrome OS software is riddled with bugs, and Android app integration still needs work — Great hardware undone by a hundred tiny software indignities — The tricky thing about Google's new Pixel Slate is that it checks …
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9to5Google, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Engadget, Laptop Mag, Android Authority, Android Police, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNET, Chrome Unboxed, and The Keyword. Tweets: @pierce
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple unveils Entrepreneur Camp to help female founders of app-driven companies with training, support, and more, hosted at Apple Park for two weeks quarterly — Apple wants to help give female developers a boost when it comes to iOS apps. — The company on Monday unveiled … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details three independent root causes behind last week's worldwide MFA outage that affected Azure, Office 365, Dynamics, and other Microsoft users — Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week.
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, The Register, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, SecurityWeek, and The Register
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's case before SCOTUS is about standing, and its argument is strong, but that doesn't mean App Store isn't a monopoly and rent-seeking isn't on the rise — Yesterday the Supreme Court held a hearing in the case Apple Inc. v. Pepper. “Pepper” is Robert Pepper, an Apple customer who …
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
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SCOTUSblog, Gizmodo, CNBC, SCOTUSblog, Associated Press, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Telecoms.com, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Fortune, Motherboard, Thurrot, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, Computerworld, Washington Post, MacRumors, The Verge, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Axios, TechSpot, and Reuters
Tweets: @linamkhan, @travisbdriver, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Stock trading app Robinhood has hired Jason Warnick, an Amazon veteran who joined the company in 1999 and was most recently VP of finance, as its new CFO — Jason Warnick has presumably had a lot of job offers since joining Amazon in the 20th century. — The stock-trading startup Robinhood …
Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @alexeheath
| Katie Collins / CNET: |
UK Parliament says it hopes to publish the internal Facebook documents seized this weekend “within the next week”, after fully reviewing them — The UK's Parliament said on Tuesday that it hopes to publish documents relating to Facebook's business practices “within the next week.”| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it's making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS — It's Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that's a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available … | Margi Murphy / Telegraph: |
WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company — WhatsApp's chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook. — Neeraj Arora, once tipped …
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Tweets: @neerajarora, @ceciliakang, @vijayshekhar, and @pranavdixit
| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Google buys a 51.8 acre Mountain View business park with 12 buildings for $1B, in what is the Bay Area's largest real estate purchase so far in 2018 — MOUNTAIN VIEW — In an unexpected mega-deal, Google has paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View business park, a head-spinning acquisition …
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Tweets: @rolandlisf, @jrbinsv, and @louisgray
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Watch Party, its group viewing feature where users can see and comment on the same video at the same time, to all profiles and Pages worldwide — Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so it's hoping to differentiate through the company's core strength: social.Sponsor Posts
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