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A reporter describes his and others' experiences delivering food on bikes for apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates in New York City — I had just started my lunch shift when the phone pinged: Uber Eats, pickup at Cocina del Sur on West 38th Street in Manhattan, five blocks away. Great!| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report details the activities of Apple's New Product Security team, created after a major iPhone 5c leak, which is now increasing focus on CAD schematics leaks — An article from the Information today covers a breakdown of the lengths that factory workers have gone to get parts of unreleased iPhones …
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
A new set of Pixel 4 leaked images and a series of renders show it will have a large forehead bezel for a variety of sensors and front-facing cameras — A lot of space to cover up — A new set of leaked images of Google's forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone have surfaced on the web …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Confiant: two Hong Kong-based firms have been responsible for malicious ads with 100M+ impressions in 2019, including many shown via Microsoft's Windows 10 apps — Security firm tracks down malvertiser who deployed malicious ads in Outlook, Microsoft games, and the Microsoft News app.| Emily Tate / EdSurge: |
Tutors for services like VIPKIDS, which links native English speakers with Chinese students, recount instances of parents abusing kids during online sessions — THE DAY STARTED OUT LIKE MOST. Around 6 o'clock on a fall morning in 2018, Jordan sat down at her desk, donned her headset … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 debuts Byteboard, a job interview tool that lets candidates choose their coding environment and work on projects from design to implementation — Area 120, Google's lab for experimental projects, is launching Byteboard today, a new tool that aims to make the technical … | Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in 2015 accusing it of age discrimination in hiring, paying out $11M across 227 people who joined the class action — - Company vows to train employees, managers about discrimination — Woman who sued interviewed for job with tech titan four times| Louise Lucas / Financial Times: |
Analysis of factors that have slowed the tech boom in China, where VC deals in the IT sector have declined from a peak of $26.4B in Q2 2018 to $2.2B in Q2 2019 — From Xiamen to Shanghai mass graveyards of dirty bikes, all twisted frames and busted axles and handlebars …
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| South China Morning Post: |
A look at gallium nitride, a compound that can replace silicon in chips and is key to miniaturizing 5G tech; China controls 95% of gallium's global supply — China accounts for 95 per cent of the global supply of the soft, bluish metal Huawei has filed for more than 2,000 patents related …
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| Edward Docx / New Statesman: |
Profile of Nick Clegg, ex-Liberal Democrats leader and deputy prime minister in UK, who became Facebook's head of global affairs and communications in Oct. 2018 — He quit Westminster after failing to realign British politics. Now the former Lib Dem leader has taken on an even bigger challenge at Facebook.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Zefr sells its video rights-management tech, RightsID and ChannelID, to Vobile in ~$90M deal and will refocus on its contextual-advertising service for YouTube — Vobile Group, a video protection and measurement company, announced a deal to acquire Zefr's RightsID copyright-management … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Lyft deployed its dockless e-bikes in SF on Friday, after the city granted it an interim permit; Lyft sued SF in June alleging exclusivity contract violations — When tech companies sue cities, it's rare to see a resolution — albeit a temporary one — in favor of the tech company happen so quickly, if at all.Sponsor Posts
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