Former Uber engineer says Uber HR repeatedly dismissed claims of sexual harassment by “high performing” manager
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like.
Report: Apple buys Israeli facial recognition startup RealFace
US giant acquires Tel Aviv-based Israeli cybertechnology startup for a couple of million dollars, Calcalist says — Apple Inc. has acquired Israel's Realface, a cybertechnology startup whose facial r...
Snap starts selling Spectacles online in the US for $130 at Spectacles.com
Snap wants to prove to investors in its upcoming IPO that Spectacles can earn money for its business, not just be a brand stunt. So today, Snap begins selling its video-recording sunglasses Spectacle...
Google and Microsoft's Bing agree to demote piracy search results in the UK by 1 June 2017, as part of a deal with the entertainment industry
Google and Microsoft's Bing have agreed to crack down on piracy sites in the UK after years of wrangling with film and music rights holders.
Snap explains how it's unique in these five clips from its 35-minute IPO roadshow video
SAN FRANCISCO — Snap, the parent company of the ephemeral-message application Snapchat, on Friday revealed its own story: the video presentation it will use to pitch investors as it prepares to go pub...
ZTE shuts down its Hawkeye phone Kickstarter campaign after reaching only $36K of its $500K goal
After a month and a half of letting its Hawkeye phone flounder on Kickstarter, ZTE is finally ending the campaign. It received $36,245 out of its $500,000 funding goal.
Uber CEO says he was unaware of former employee allegations; board member Arianna Huffington to work with Uber's new HR chief on “independent” investigation
Another tale of sexism and unacceptable workplace behavior in Silicon Valley company has emerged.
Sources: Microsoft shuffles HoloLens' roadmap, cancelling the planned second version of the device to focus on more ambitious hardware slated to launch in 2019
It was a little over two years ago that Microsoft first showed the world HoloLens and the company immediately grabbed headlines around …
Bill Gates supports taxing the use of robots to slow the spread of automation and to finance other employment
Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies' use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of emp...
Sriram Krishnan, who led Snap's ad tech offerings, is leaving the company after one year
Sriram Krishnan, who joined a year ago from Facebook, was a key leader on Snap's ad tech team. — Sriram Krishnan, one of Snap's top ad executives, has left the company less than a month before Snap'...
Microsoft Office for Mac gets Touch Bar support
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Nebraska state senator warns that Apple is opposing the state's proposed “right to repair” bill; similar bills are making their way through 7 other states
Apple is inventing new and interesting arguments to prevent you from fixing your iPhone: It's lobbying Nebraska lawmakers to kill …
EU Parliament rejects proposal to tax robot owners to fund support for or retraining of workers who are put out of jobs by robots
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Mark Zuckerberg's lip service to journalism is not enough to sustain media amid Facebook's ad revenue siphoning and hands-off view of editorial responsibility
It's not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago.
AT&T starts testing drones to provide LTE service in disaster areas or other locations without cell coverage
During several short test flights in a “dead zone” about an hour outside of Atlanta, the drones successfully transmitted and received LTE signals.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp launches Status, an encrypted Snapchat Stories clone
It was just eight years ago, in February 2009 … Thanks: @joshconstine
Hands-on pics and specs of LG G6 leak: always-on display, Snapdragon 821, 4GB of RAM, base 32GB of expandable storage, and a 3,200 mAh battery
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Cliqz, the German privacy-focused browser maker backed by Mozilla, buys Ghostery browser extension, which monitors and lets you block tracking scripts on sites
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YouTube will discontinue 30-second unskippable ads in 2018
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How competition from T-Mobile forced bigger carriers to offer “unlimited” data plans again, and how those plans compare
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Q&A with Sonos' CEO on his plans to integrate assistants from firms like Amazon and Google
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How locals' producing and selling of goods on Alibaba's eBay-like marketplace Taobao is helping to eliminate poverty in over 1,000 Chinese villages
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Q&A with Bill Gates on his work as an adviser to Microsoft, the evolution of the company, and his focus on natural language processing and virtual assistants
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