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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.
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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.
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| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
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 public in a few weeks.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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's expected IPO.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
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 …
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| Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel: |
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 recognition technology can be used to authenticate users.| Kevin J. Delaney / Quartz: |
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 employment.
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| Rob LeFebvre / Engadget: |
Microsoft Office for Mac gets Touch Bar support — Owners of the Macbook Pro with Touch Bar will be pleased to hear that Microsoft Office now works with the LCD strip Apple introduced with its latest laptop. Support for Touch Bar was announced alongside the new MacBook Pro at an Apple event last October …
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| Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: |
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.
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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 … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
How competition from T-Mobile forced bigger carriers to offer “unlimited” data plans again, and how those plans compare — It's been a weird week in the world of major cell providers. After years of moving away from offering unlimited plans after the rise of data-hungry smartphones …
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Gizmodo, Insanely Great Mac, Fortune, Business Insider, and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @chillmage
| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Cliqz, the German privacy-focused browser maker backed by Mozilla, buys Ghostery browser extension, which monitors and lets you block tracking scripts on sites — Ghostery has decided not to have its cake and eat it too. — On Wednesday, the company announced that it's been acquired …
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