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.
The FDA cleared the Apple Watch Series 4's heart monitoring abilities based on Apple-backed studies but mandated Apple label the risks of inaccurate readings
When Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 yesterday (Sept. 12), the device received a lot of attention for its health-monitoring capabilities.
Breitbart's leaked Google all-hands video, while innocuous, is another example of employee dissatisfaction on public display, following James Damore and others
Casey Newton / The Verge :
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 …
How The Weather Channel and The Future Group used the Unreal Engine to create a stunning depiction of Hurricane Florence's storm surge
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Facebook expands fact-checking efforts to photos and videos, targeting those that are manipulated, out of context, or presented with false audio or text
Today, Facebook announced that it's … Paul Hill / Neowin : Facebook expands fact-checking to photos and videos in misinformation crackdown Cohen Coberly / TechSpot : Facebook is using AI to automatica...
Google adds support for fingerprint sensors on Android phones and TouchID 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.
EFF and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School help eliminate “seven dirty words” restriction policy from .US domain name registrations, reinstating fucknazis.us
Jeremy Rubin just wanted to speak out about the rise of white supremacist groups in the U.S. and raise some money to fight against those groups.
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.
YouTube Kids app adds an “older” filter for profiles of kids 8-12 and adds ability for parents to whitelist channels and videos on Android, with iOS coming soon
YouTube Kids' latest update is giving parents more control over what their kids watch.
Microsoft says it acquired Lobe, a San Francisco-based startup that lets users build machine learning models using a visual interface with no coding required
Microsoft today announced it has acquired Lobe, creator of a platform for building custom deep learning models using a visual interface …
Twitch hires its first head of diversity and inclusion from Vimeo, also a new human resources chief and CFO; it now has four women in its seven-person C-suite
Twitch is shaking things up. The Amazon-owned service for streaming video of people playing video games just announced hires …
Apple's Sept. 2018 keynote had half-baked diversity, using women and non-white people as background dressing while every male Apple employee on stage was white
Apple's 2018 iPhone event opened with a black woman busting her ass to ensure a white man's success.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families
I Have Some Questions Tina Nazerian / EdSurge : Jeff Bezos Adds Preschools to His Resume Alison Griswold / Quartz : Jeff Bezos has decided to help the homeless Tracybloomktla / KTLA : Amazon CEO Jeff ...
Nvidia says it has launched Project Maglev, an initiative to use its Drive AI platform to enable product development in industries like robotics and health care
Nvidia is using the underlying architecture of its Drive autonomous vehicle platform to enable product development in other verticals …
The bubble around self-driving cars has turned into a trough of disillusionment; firms are now factoring for autonomous driving tech to be viable much later
The bubble around self-driving cars turns into a ‘trough of disillusionment’; firms refactor for much later arrival
Nintendo says the Switch's online service, costing $3.99/month or $19.99/year, will launch on September 18 with a free seven-day trial
Andrew Webster / The Verge :
European Court of Human Rights rules that some aspects of a former UK mass surveillance regime, including bulk data collection, violated human rights law
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
A look at Standard Cognition's tech, which uses cameras and AI to track who people are and what they buy, as it opens San Francisco's first cashierless store
A start-up uses visual tracking and behavioral data to operate a new San Francisco market, which lets shoppers walk out unimpeded.
Josh Garza, CEO of Bitcoin mining firm GAW Miners, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to a wire fraud charge in July 2017
Stan Higgins / CoinDesk :
iPhones are the closest thing to a hardware annuity stream tech has ever seen, as they're a known quantity, dependable, and nearly all users will buy again
@stratechery https://stratechery.com/... Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : The iPhone Franchise http://stratechery.com/... @stratechery // Smart. Interesting to consider the iPhone annuity stream relative ...
Walmart's Jet.com relaunches its website to focus on products and services localized to cities, starting with NYC, and launches three-hour grocery delivery
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Snapchat enlists 20 news partners including CNN and NBC to create Curated Our Stories, or curated stories with user-generated content in the Discover section
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Russian hacker Peter Levashov, who was arrested by Spanish authorities last year, pleads guilty in a US District Court for his involvement in the Kelihos botnet
Olivia Beavers / The Hill :
Facebook has built and deployed an AI tool, SapFix, that identifies bugs in code, tests patches, and suggests the best to apply, will share with devs eventually
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Salesforce announces the Step Up Declaration, signed by an alliance of 21 companies including Uber, HP, and Lyft, pledging to use tech to fight climate change
Natasha Bach / Fortune :
Adobe beats with Q3 revenues of $2.29B vs. $2.25B est., up 24% YoY, subscription revenues up 25% YoY, and net income of $666.3M, up 59% YoY
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Uber says it will spend $150M over five years to boost its Toronto-based engineering hub and expand self-driving car operations
Heather Somerville / Reuters :
Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, prices its downsized IPO at $7 per share, raising $84M and valuing the company at $2.1B
Eudora Wang / China Money Network :
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