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“This Is Just Like GamerGate”: How The Pro-Trump Media Turned James Damore Into A Hero Overnight — A week ago, James Damore was anonymous. Now, the Google engineer who lost his job after he wrote a viral anti-diversity screed has become an icon of the alt-right, with more than 40,000 Twitter followers …
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| James Damore / Wall Street Journal: |
James Damore blames Google's intense echo chamber, exacerbated by outside reactions, for his firing — James Damore says that his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn't be tolerated in the company's ‘ideological echo chamber.’
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI bot has defeated three top professional Dota 2 players in 1v1 play over the last week — An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world's top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming handle “Dendi,” threw in the towel in the middle …
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin passes $4,000 mark amid ICO frenzy and a slowdown in momentum behind Bitcoin Cash — What a day for Bitcoin. — 24 hours ago the cryptocurrency was trading below $3,700. About an hour ago it surged passed $4,000 and has no signs of stopping. It's now trading around $4,135.00.| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Baidu COO Qi Lu on company's and China's AI ambitions, Baidu's DuerOS natural language-based AI platform, why Alexa ecosystem is ahead of rivals in US, more — A company can have the best technology in the world. It can have the strongest talent. It can have the coolest product ideas.| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Twitch launches desktop app with support for voice and video calls on Windows and macOS — Although YouTube is the household name for streaming videos in general, Twitch is still considered the granddaddy of the niche, but also lucrative, game streaming market.| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Facebook approved the stealthy release of app similar to Moments in China via a local company that appears to be closely linked to Facebook — SHANGHAI — Facebook and many of its apps have been blocked in China for years. To change that, Mark Zuckerberg has made a big point …
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Tweets: @paulmozur, @nytimes, @caseynewton, and @lookner
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Behind the only formal net neutrality complaint, filed by one man, Alex Nguyen, whose 112-page document catalogs dozens of questionable actions from Verizon — Alex Nguyen filed the only formal net neutrality complaint, and he's still waiting for an answer
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| Taylor Lorenz / Mic: |
Instagram feeds have become dominated by planned candids, dubbed “plandids”, which are usually posed but are supposed to appear effortless — Instagram used to be defined by its feed of stylized, perfectly posed images, but this summer a new trend has swept the platform: the “plandid.”
Tweets: @mikeelgan
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Shervin Pishevar and two other Uber investors demand that Benchmark, which sued Travis Kalanick for fraud, give up its Uber board seat and sell its Uber shares — A group of Uber investors has asked that venture capital firm Benchmark step down from the company's board of directors, Axios has learned.
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Tweets: @albertwenger, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @danprimack, @axios, @karaswisher, @danprimack, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, and @caseynewton
| Joe Maring / 9to5Google: |
Samsung opens up beta version its Android browser to all devices running Android 5.0 Lollipop or later — Samsung's mobile browser has previously been available primarily for Samsung phones (with the exception of a few other devices like the Pixel and Pixel XL) and while the main version … | George Slefo / Ad Age: |
Google reveals sites that fail ad test, risk being filtered by upcoming Chrome ad blocker, including Forbes, LA Times, Lifehacker, Chicago Tribune — Credit: Illustration by Tam Nguyen/ Ad Age — Betty Crocker might want to check her inbox Thursday. — The iconic brand is one of roughly …
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| JD Alois / Crowdfund Insider: |
After raising $232M in an ICO, Tezos says it'll commit $50M to fund new companies looking to build on the Tezos platform, via direct venture arm and VC partners — Tezos shot straight through the stratosphere in the blink of an eye with their Initial Coin Offering several weeks back.
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