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| Danielle Abril / Fortune: |
By 2023, Uber Eats may own 25% of the global food delivery industry worth $191B, but both DoorDash and GrubHub make more sales, and DoorDash is growing fastest — Investor sentiment in Uber is rapidly sinking. Since last week's initial public offering, the company's stock has nosedived … | Beth Kowitt / Fortune: |
32 current and former employees on the cultural shift inside Google and the decline in trust and communication between the rank and file and the management — Some employees say Google is losing touch with its “Don't be evil” motto. What happens when an empowered tech workforce rebels?
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
A look at the rise of “tea” accounts on social media, which seek to boost their popularity by documenting gossip about influencers in obsessive detail — In 2016, James Charles was a high-school student in upstate New York. He was an aspiring makeup artist who'd do his friends' faces …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua on the current state of AI, Intel's plans for its autonomous mobility service, and the importance of developing alternatives to LIDAR — Amnon Shashua, head of Intel's Mobileye division, is charged with transforming the chip giant into a service provider for autonomous fleets of robo-taxi.| CNBC: |
Google has a “Purchases” page that shows your purchases based on receipts you have in your Gmail inbox; Google says only you can view your purchases — KEY POINTS — Google saves years of information on purchases you've made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.
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| Emily Stewart / Vox: |
Q&A with Sen. Ron Wyden on writing early legislation that shaped the internet, technology consolidation, and protecting publishers without requiring neutrality — “Section 230 is not about neutrality. Period. Full stop." — Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is one of the co-authors … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Salesforce says faulty script deployment gave users access to all of their company's Salesforce data, forcing it to shut down much of its infrastructure Friday — Faulty production script gave users access to all their company's Salesforce data. — Salesforce is going through …
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| Brian Merchant / Gizmodo: |
Profile of ObEN, which creates “personal artificial intelligences”, life-size holographic AI avatars, by modeling people's appearance and adapting their voice — In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world …
Tweets: @sub8u, @gideonmann, @nafeezahmed, @mims, @bcmerchant, and @bcmerchant
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Snapchat's popular new gender-changing filter provokes mixed reactions in the LGBTQ community, with some lauding the ability to safely explore themselves — A Snapchat photo filter that lets people see themselves in highly feminized or masculine form has proven wildly popular.
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Tweets: @inafried, @thysz, @goldshift_, @allhailthefireh, @rapidnamechange, @jaylathepanda, and @inafried
| Reuters: |
Experts are skeptical about Huawei's claim it can ensure a steady components supply without the US, say it would struggle to replace chips, lasers, other parts — SAN FRANCISCO/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chip experts are calling out Huawei for its claims that it could ensure …
Tweets: @benktallmadge and @stephennellis
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Physical storage startup Clutter, valued at $600M in its last raise, acquired the storage business of rival Omni, which is pivoting to rentals of personal items — On the heels of Clutter announcing a large growth round of $200 million earlier this year, the storage startup is cleaning up the competitive field.
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| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
Profile of Tall Poppy, which has raised $1M+ seed round to help companies protect employees against online threats from trolls and hackers — Anyone who's spent some time on Twitter knows that vilification and personal attacks-as extreme as threats of rape and murder-are a standard feature of some people's online lives.
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