Techmeme: Former Unity VP Anne Evans has filed a lawsuit against the company for retaliation and wrongful termination, alleging CEO John Riccitiello sexually harassed her (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)

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Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:

Former Unity VP Anne Evans has filed a lawsuit against the company for retaliation and wrongful termination, alleging CEO John Riccitiello sexually harassed her — Unity Technologies, the multibillion-dollar gaming engine, is facing a lawsuit from its former VP of global talent acquisition …

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Google details the root cause behind the recent outage that caused Google Cloud to lose a third of its traffic, which affected Snapchat and YouTube among others — FIVE DAYS AGO, the internet had a conniption. In broad patches around the globe, YouTube sputtered. Shopify stores shut down.

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Shira Ovide / Bloomberg:

How MTN and Orange, two of the biggest mobile carriers in Africa, are trying to expand internet access in the continent by selling ~$20 phones powered by KaiOS — About half of humanity don't have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery.

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London-based Realeyes, which uses AI to let brands like AT&T and Mars gauge emotions of consumers through their facial expressions, raises $12.4M Series B — Artificial emotional intelligence, or “emotion AI,” is emerging as a key component of the broader AI movement.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

FloSports, a $150/year live and on-demand streaming service focusing on niche sports, raises $47M Series C led by Discovery, bringing the total raised to $75M — NY Digital Editor @https://twitter.com/xpangler FOLLOW — FloSports, a provider of live-streaming and on-demand niche sports programming …

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