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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Two Google employees who helped organize walkouts say they've faced demotions or dramatically changed roles, plan a town hall to share stories of retaliation — TWO EMPLOYEE ACTIVISTS at Google say they have been retaliated against for helping to organize a walkout among thousands …
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| Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian: |
TED talk details the targeted disinformation on Facebook ahead of Brexit and the dark money that likely funded it, as Zuckerberg keeps refusing to testify in EU — For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley.| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Samsung says it is delaying the release of the Galaxy Fold past the original April 26 launch date, will announce a new release date “in the coming weeks” — Samsung has delayed the release of the Galaxy Fold past the original April 26 launch date.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Facebook hires Jennifer Newstead, a legal advisor for the US State Department who helped craft the Patriot Act, as its general counsel, replacing Colin Stretch — 'Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission,' says Sheryl Sandberg
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
After ditching Nvidia, Tesla unveils its own custom chip for enabling full self-driving features, says all new Model S, 3, and X vehicles being made include it — The Tesla computer, a new custom chip designed to enable full self-driving capabilities, is now in all new Model 3, X and S vehicles …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: Apple spent $350M in 2018 and is now spending $30M+ every month on Amazon's cloud, making it one of the biggest AWS customers — As Apple and Amazon compete for a greater share of consumer dollars and attention, they also have a particularly intimate business relationship …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Luminary, the subscription-based podcast app backed by $100M in venture capital, debuts Tuesday without The New York Times' The Daily or shows from Gimlet Media — It took less than a day for Luminary to become enemy number one of the podcast industry. Last month, on the same day that it unveiled …
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: at WWDC, Apple plans to announce new Siri intents, APIs to port apps to Mac, a new AR content creation app, support for stereo AR headsets, and more — Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on June 3rd. Last week, we shared exclusive details about iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Sources: Sets, Microsoft's Windows-management feature which allowed users to organize their workflow in tabs, is gone and not expected to return in Windows 10 — Sets, Microsoft's Windows-management feature which allowed users to group data, sites and other information in tabs …
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| Paige Leskin / Business Insider: |
DataCamp, which hosts online data science courses, said that an unnamed exec made “uninvited physical contact” with an employee; sources say the exec is the CEO — - DataCamp, a startup that runs data science courses, disclosed in an April blog post that an unnamed DataCamp executive made …
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| Law360: |
AT&T and Sprint say they have settled a lawsuit over AT&T's “5G Evolution” branding; source: AT&T will continue to use the branding in its ads and marketing — Law360 (April 22, 2019, 3:41 PM EDT) — Sprint and AT&T said Monday they have agreed to settle Sprint's lawsuit seeking …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
The Galaxy Wearable app has had login problems since at least Thursday, as Samsung Gear and Galaxy Watch Active users report getting stuck on a white screen — If you were hoping to set up your Samsung smartwatch with a new phone, you might want to hold off.
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| Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent-backed DouYu, a Chinese video game live-streaming platform, files for a US IPO; DouYu reported net revenue of $531.5M and a net loss of $127.4M in 2018 — DouYu International Holdings Ltd., a Chinese video-game live-streaming platform, filed for an U.S. IPO as it seeks … Sponsor Posts
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