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Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more — Editor's note: Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we're making to better support them.
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Sundar Pichai on the walkout, company culture, and how, China aside, Google already operates in countries with censorship laws like “right to be forgotten” — Growing up in India, he slept on the floor of a house without a refrigerator. Today, the chief executive …
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Facebook Portal and Portal+ video chat devices go on sale on Thursday on Portal online store, Amazon, and Best Buy — Facebook on Wednesday announced retail availability for its Portal Plus and Portal smart displays on the Portal online store, Amazon and Best Buy.
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Google renames its popular Android storage management app Files Go to Files by Google and says it is now used by over 30M people each month — Google is renaming Files Go, its lightweight files app for phones with limited storage, to “Files by Google” to reflect that the app works no matter …
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Samsung teases foldable phone that acts as a phone when closed and a tablet when opened, says mass production will begin within months — Our foldable future is here — Samsung has been teasing its foldable smartphone for weeks, and now the company has unveiled it for the first time today.
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Microsoft says it is working on a fix after a problem with its activation server causes some Windows 10 Pro PCs to deactivate their licenses — Some Windows 10 users are having problems with their Pro licenses today, as users on the company's Community Forums and Reddit are reporting … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Amazon makes the Alexa app, previously available on select laptops, available to all Windows 10 users via Microsoft Store — Available in the Microsoft Store — Amazon is releasing its Alexa app for Windows 10 today. While the app has been available on select Windows 10 laptops recently …
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Coinbase says it is adding Brave browser's Basic Attention Token to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro — Crypto exchange Coinbase is adding web browser Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT) to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi opens its first UK store in London and rolls out the flagship Mi 8 Pro, alongside other products, as it continues its push into Europe — Xiaomi marked its official entry into the U.K. today with the launch of the Mi 8 Pro, a smartphone with a 6.21-inch screen, alongside a range of other products …
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HTC brings Vive Focus, its standalone VR headset available in China, to North America and Europe for $599 with an Advantage service option costing $749 — HTC will start selling its standalone Vive Focus virtual reality headset worldwide today, after an initial launch in China earlier this year.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
To keep up with Moore's Law, companies are assembling processors from pieces of silicon called chiplets, instead of carving them from silicon as single chips — IN 2016, THE chip industry's clock ran out. — For 50 years, the number of transistors that could be squeezed onto a piece … | Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
David Attenborough, the legendary BBC broadcaster, will provide the voiceover for Netflix's eight-part series Our Planet, to be released in April — Broadcaster synonymous with BBC documentaries will record voiceover for eight-part series — Sir David Attenborough will front … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
YouTube finally arrives on the Nintendo Switch, available to download now, following Hulu — Nintendo has sold over 22 million Switch consoles since launch, with plans to sell another 20 million this financial year. — That said, Nintendo hasn't seemed too focused on building out its portfolio of non-gaming apps.
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Fossil launches the Sport Smartwatch, which comes in two sizes, six colors, runs Wear OS, and has an integrated heart sensor, available today for $255 — Fossil is taking another shot at Android wearables — Fossil has announced its first smartwatch with a Snapdragon 3100 chip and Google's redesigned Wear OS.
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Eric Schmidt on growing up in Italy, years at Bell Labs, PARC, and Sun, scaling Google, polarization on social platforms, how tech will shape the future, more — Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / SoundCloud / RSS — The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father's profession …
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China's Xinhua News Agency launches “composite anchors”, which combine images and voices of human anchors with text via AI tech from internet company Sogou — - AI anchors have the ability to work 24 hours a day provided human editors keep inputting text into the system
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Tesla names board member and Telstra CFO Robyn Denholm as Chairman of the Board, replacing Elon Musk; Denholm to leave Telstra to work as Tesla chair full-time — - Tesla delivered its largest quarterly profit in the company's history in the third quarter of 2018, reporting about $6.8 billion …
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President of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers says Amazon's AbeBooks has apologized and will not drop booksellers as scheduled on Nov. 30 — SAN FRANCISCO — A worldwide strike by antiquarian booksellers against an Amazon subsidiary proved successful after two days … | Facebook: |
Facebook says it has removed 14M+ pieces of terrorist content this year and median time to take action is less than 2 minutes in Q3 2018 — Online terrorist propaganda is a fairly new phenomenon; terrorism itself is not. In the real world, terrorist groups have proven highly resilient …
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Some experts say Facebook performed well for the midterms, but disinformation and false news still spread fast, requiring outsiders' monitoring and prodding — After an Election Day largely free of viral social media misinformation, and with little trace of the kind of Russian troll stampede … | Will Oremus / Slate: |
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Google says Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will warn users about unclear billing charges and subscription signups — Earlier this week, Google announced that Chrome would remove ads from sites with persistently abusive experiences. The browser will soon protect against sites that try …
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Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019 — - Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, will be a home for its past titles and original series, including new content from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
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Yelp reports Q3 revenue of $241M, down from $245M projected, and weak Q4 guidance; stock down more than 28% after hours — - The company reported revenue of $241 million for the quarter, just shy of analyst projections of $245 million. — “We do not believe there was a single …
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Ayar Labs, which makes an optical-based chip that it says boosts speeds on high-performance computer systems, raises $24M Series A led by Playground Global — Ayar Labs, which builds an optical-based chip that boosts speeds on high performance computing systems, announced Wednesday … Sponsor Posts
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