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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends firing of memo writer, says she's faced gender-based slights throughout her career — Yesterday, after reading the news, my daughter asked me a question. “Mom, is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?”
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Andy Rubin's Essential Products raises $300M from Tencent, Amazon, and others, says Best Buy and Amazon will be its retail launch partners in the US — Startup founded by Google Android's creator has raised $300 million in funding; plans to release $699 titanium-encased smartphone
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Following Mobileye acquisition, Intel will build fleet of 100 fully autonomous (Level 4) cars to test in US, Israel, Europe; first cars coming by year's end — The chipmaker just closed its deal to buy auto-visual startup Mobileye — Fresh off its acquisition of auto-visual company Mobileye … | Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which hosts the Kubernetes project, as platinum member, and AWS' VP of cloud architecture strategy joins the board — Just weeks after Microsoft signaled its support for a key cloud computing industry foundation, Amazon Web Services has followed suit … | Wall Street Journal: |
How Facebook uses “early bird” warning system to scout popular new tech, then buy or copy it; sources: take-away from an all hands: “don't be too proud to copy” — Tiny Houseparty has a promising video-chat app—the social-media giant has noticed
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| Mark Harris / Wired: |
How Palantir made an opaque surveillance network with data from police departments and gov't agencies, locking in clients amid complaints of low transparency — When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad's Palantir data analysis system in November 2014 …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook uses AI and expands human review processes to identify misleading ads and posts that use “cloaking” to disguise true link destinations — “Cloaking” sounds sci-fi, but it's actually a trick used today by spammers to show content moderators or search engine spiders …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Anker unveils the $35 Eufy Genie, a small Alexa-enabled speaker that is $15 cheaper than the $50 Echo Dot; Bluetooth version coming soon for $40 — The Genie is an Alexa-enabled smart speaker that'll sell for just $35. It's the newest gadget in Anker's Eufy range of smart home products …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Birchbox has held acquisition talks with several retailers, including Walmart — The startup received a $15 million lifeline from investors in 2016. — Birchbox has recently been discussing a potential sale with several retailers, multiple sources told Recode.
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| Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed: |
Airbnb starts deactivating accounts of some people booking rentals to attend “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, citing community rules — The rally is set to take place in a Virginia park where earlier this year white supremacists gathered with torches to protest the removal of a Confederate statue.| David McCabe / Axios: |
Techdirt gets $250K+ via Craig Newmark, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Charles Koch Foundation, more to cover free speech while battling Hulk Hogan's lawyer — An eclectic group is financially backing TechDirt, a tech news site being sued for libel by the same lawyer who who helped take down Gawker.| Lindsey Scott / HIred: |
Interview requests from US firms to foreign job applicants have plummeted with Q4 2016 requests down 60% YoY, Q1 2017 down 47% YoY, and Q2 2017 down 37% YoY — Immigration has always been a hot button issue in US politics, but developments during and since the 2016 election have significantly increased the attention on immigration.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Disney to end Netflix film distribution deal in 2019, will launch ESPN streaming service in 2018 and Disney streaming services in 2019 — Disney will end its distribution deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service, the company announced today. It intends to launch the service in 2019.
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