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Interviews with 30+ current and former Uber employees depict an unrestrained work culture; Uber also faces 3+ lawsuits over sexual harrassment or verbal abuse — SAN FRANCISCO — When new employees join Uber, they are asked to subscribe to 14 core company values, including making bold bets …
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Amazon fights against search warrant for Echo recordings in murder trial, argues Alexa commands and responses have First Amendment rights — Amazon is sticking to its guns in the fight to protect customer data. The tech titan has filed a motion to quash the search warrant for recordings … | John Eggerton / Multichannel News: |
FCC opens up 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use, certifies equipment from Ericsson and Nokia — T-Mobile will start employing new tech starting in spring — The FCC is opening up the 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use in a move that will boost spectrum sharing and wireless broadband.
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Google's Jigsaw unveils Perspective, an AI-powered tool for publishers to weed out abuse from online comments, available as an API for free — A research team tied to Google unveiled a new tool on Thursday that could have a profound effect on how we talk to each other online.
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Internet services companies should offer a “travel mode” that limits contacts and history to a minimal subset, to protect users from invasive searches at border — News reports tell us that Customs and Border Patrol has become more aggressive about checking social media accounts at the border.
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Sources: White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing out after failing FBI background check; one source says failure was due to investment issues — White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable …
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How Pinterest built Lens, its search tool for identifying real-world objects before suggesting related items, using GPU-powered deep learning and more — Sometime around 2013 and 2014, deep learning was going through a revolution that required pretty much everyone to reset their expectations …
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New York tech firm CafeX Communications files federal trademark suit against AWS over Chime, Amazon's new online conferencing system — A New York-based tech company has filed a federal trademark suit against Amazon Web Services over the name of the cloud giant's newly launched Chime online conferencing and collaboration technology.Thanks:@toddbishop
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Airbnb confirms deal to buy social payments startup Tilt; sources characterize the deal as acqui-hire as most of the money is being spent on retaining the team — February 22, 2017Feb 23, 2017, 6:27 am — Airbnb has finalized its deal to buy social payments startup Tilt, TechCrunch has confirmed.
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Sources: Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown and CPO Chris Cox are hosting off-the-record meetings with journalists to improve relations — Facebook's new head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is hosting off-the-record events at her Manhattan home with big-name media people … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps with Focused Inbox, @mentions for adding contacts to email threads, package delivery information, more — Microsoft is updating its Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10 today with some features that the company has been using in its mobile apps.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm announces new Snapdragon 835-based VR dev kit and headset accelerator program — The near-future of VR is definitely mobile, and for the time-being nobody has more control of the guts of mobile devices than Qualcomm does. — It's definitely in the company's best interest …
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