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Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations — Margaret Mitchell, the co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team, says that the company has fired her following an investigation of her use of corporate e-mail.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Report: Google's AI Chief Jeff Dean apologizes in an email after Timnit Gebru's exit, saying his team should have managed the situation “with more sensitivity” — Google told employees Friday it has wrapped up its investigation into the ouster of prominent AI researcher Timnit Gebru.
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Sources: Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset — - Accessory has faced development issues related to software — Wireless charging unit may be popular with frequent users — Apple Inc. is working …
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| Rich Stanton / PC Gamer: |
Court filings: Apple is asking Valve to provide extensive sales data for about 600 games on Steam, as part of Epic lawsuit; Valve has rejected the demand — These lawyers are getting steamed up. — A new court filing has revealed that, as part of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games …
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second — Readers may be going directly to the source — The Australian Broadcast Company's ABC News app shot to the top of Apple's App Store charts …
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UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers should be classified as workers, not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle — - The U.K.'s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Uber's drivers should be classified as workers rather than independent contractors.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is in talks with suppliers for next-gen lidar sensors for self-driving cars, that will be considered cutting edge four to five years from now — - Vetting of laser sensor vendors is developmental milestone — iPhone maker has several years of work ahead on autonomous car
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| Wolfie Zhao / The Block: |
Bitcoin's market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $56K — Bitcoin's market capitalization has crossed the $1 trillion milestone for the first time after over a decade's development as it gains increasing mainstream attention. — Bitcoin's price set new record highs …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September — LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740 million users find and book freelancers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers say Brave browser's Tor mode was sending queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than Tor nodes; the bug is now fixed — DNS leak leaves footprints in DNS server logs for a Brave user's Tor traffic. — The Tor mode included with the Brave web browser allows users … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Coinbase was valued at $100B+ in private share sale ahead of direct listing; docs reveal $141M net income on $691M revenue for first 9 months of 2020 — Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was valued at just over $100 billion in a recent private market share sale ahead of its upcoming public listing …
Tweets: @abnormalreturns, @mayazi, @c2prods, @levie, and @danprimack
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Sources: IBM is exploring a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, which has roughly $1B in annual revenue and isn't currently profitable — Business has roughly $1 billion in revenue and isn't profitable, sources say — International Business Machines Corp. is exploring a potential sale …
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Bank Automation News, WRAL TechWire, and IT Management
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| Tyler Sonnemaker / Insider: |
Internal email: Mailchimp CEO tells staff that “we have work to do” on pay equity and inclusion, after company denied allegations of bias from engineer who quit — - MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut said the company has “work to do” on pay equity. — Chestnut's email to employees followed … | Alex Mahadevan / Poynter: |
An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking pilot with about 1,000 users, shows partisan rhetoric and a lack of source citations — A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric.
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