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Interviews with 30+ current and former Uber employees depict an unrestrained work culture; Uber also faces 3+ lawsuits over sexual harrassment or verbal abuse — SAN FRANCISCO — When new employees join Uber, they are asked to subscribe to 14 core company values, including making bold bets …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Leaked documents show how Palantir's tools for analyzing big data, made with help from staffers of intelligence agencies, became integral to NSA, GCHQ, others — Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand …
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Apple's new 175-acre “Apple Park” campus will open in April; 12K+ staff to move in over six months; the 1K-seat auditorium will be named the Steve Jobs Theater — Theater to Be Named for Steve Jobs — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced that Apple Park …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Windows 10 Mail and Calendar apps with Focused Inbox, @mentions for adding contacts to email threads, package delivery information, more — Microsoft is updating its Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10 today with some features that the company has been using in its mobile apps.| Politico: |
Sources: White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing out after failing FBI background check; one source says failure was due to investment issues — White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable …
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| John Eggerton / Multichannel News: |
FCC opens up 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use, certifies equipment from Ericsson and Nokia — T-Mobile will start employing new tech starting in spring — The FCC is opening up the 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use in a move that will boost spectrum sharing and wireless broadband.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Filing: Fitbit acquired Pebble's talent and intellectual property for $23M, well below reported price of $30-40M — Wearable device company Fitbit today disclosed that it paid $23 million to acquire smartwatch maker Pebble in the fourth quarter of 2016. — That's lower than previous estimates …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Waze plans to expand ride-sharing service to several US cities and Latin America over the next few months — The growth of Waze's carpool service puts Alphabet Inc.'s Google more directly in competition with Uber — Google is planning to dramatically expand a carpool service …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
How Pinterest built Lens, its search tool for identifying real-world objects before suggesting related items, using GPU-powered deep learning and more — Sometime around 2013 and 2014, deep learning was going through a revolution that required pretty much everyone to reset their expectations …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram will open up carousel posts, with up to 10 photos and videos, to all users in the coming weeks — Instagram wants you to share a more complete picture of your experiences in its classic feed, not just its Snapchat Stories clone. Today, Instagram launches the ability to share …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
AMD launches flagship Ryzen 8-core desktop CPUs, pre-orderable today, available March 2, starting at $329 — AMD is back in the performance game... finally. — SAN FRANCISCO—Oasis' smash hit “Wonderwall” was playing as the throng of journalists assembled in the ballroom of a Grand Hyatt hotel …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon will test 5G service in 11 cities by mid-2017 as a replacement for home or office broadband — The company plans to offer 5G to some customers in 11 cities by midyear. It's not full mobile wireless. Instead it's a replacement for fixed broadband. — We're slowly inching toward a super-connected 5G world.Sponsor Posts
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