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Chris Lattner joins Tesla as VP of Autopilot software — We would like to welcome Chris Lattner, who will join Tesla as our Vice President of Autopilot Software. Chris' reputation for engineering excellence is well known. He comes to Tesla after 11 years at Apple where he was primarily responsible …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, LLVM, and longtime leader of Xcode tools team, leaves Apple, says he plans to remain an active member of the Swift Core Team — Update: Tesla has announced that Lattner is joining its Autopilot team. Read more on Electrek.
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| Mathew Ingram / Fortune: |
Instagram will put full-screen, auto-playing, skippable ads in its Stories feature, which now has 150M daily active users five months after launch — If you're one of the millions of Instagram users who likes the service's recently added “Stories” sharing feature, get ready … | Fidji Simo / Facebook Media: |
Facebook launches the Facebook Journalism Project to collaborate on news products, offer training and tools for jounalists, and curb fake news — Facebook is a new kind of platform and we want to do our part to enable people to have meaningful conversations, to be informed and to be connected to each other.
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Verizon says customers with unlimited data plans using 200GB+/month must switch to limited plans or be disconnected — Heaviest unlimited data users must switch to limited plans or be disconnected. — Verizon Wireless customers with unlimited data plans who use more than 200GB a month … | Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
Chrome, Safari, Opera and extensions such as LastPass can be tricked into leaking private information using hidden text boxes, developer finds — Chrome, Safari, Opera and extensions such as LastPass can be tricked into leaking private information using hidden text boxes, developer finds| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Greenpeace clean energy report: Apple, Facebook, Google top list, all scoring “A"s; Baidu and Tencent trail pack with “F"s — Apple has earned the title of greenest tech company in the world for the third year in a row, according to a new report from environmental organization Greenpeace.
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
After criticism, Microsoft adds privacy web dashboard, simplifies existing privacy controls and adds app-specific granular options in Windows 10 Creators Update — In the past year, regulators and privacy advocates have taken potshots at Microsoft over its data collection policies.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
iZettle raises $63M more at a $500M valuation to expand from mobile payments — The world of mobile payments continues to consolidate and mature, and today one of the leading players among European mobile payments startups has raised a significant round of money to help keep itself on top. iZettle …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Sonos co-founder and CEO John MacFarlane resigns amid growing competition from voice assistants Amazon Echo and Google Home — SEATTLE — Over the years, Sonos has weathered competition from better known rivals like Apple and Bose to find a devoted audience among audio enthusiasts.
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| Tom Jackman / Washington Post: |
Court documents: FBI paid eight sources at Geek Squad when they found evidence of child pornography on computers sent in for repair — At a giant Best Buy repair shop in Brooks, Ky., Geek Squad technicians work on computers owned by people across the country, delving into them to retrieve lost data.
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