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Alphabet's Waymo sues Otto and parent company Uber for trade secret theft, unfair competition, and patent infringement, claiming Otto founder took LiDAR designs — The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.
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Early Uber investors Mitch and Freada Kapor speak out after private appeals reached a “dead end”, say current Uber investigation team is too conflicted — By now a staggering number of people recognize the name of Susan Fowler and have read some account of her experiences of sexism …
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Google unveils “practical” SHA-1 collision using nine quintillion computations, releases two different PDFs with identical hashes, urges sunsetting of protocol — Cryptographic hash functions like SHA-1 are a cryptographer's swiss army knife. You'll find that hashes play a role …
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Tech giants including Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Yahoo criticize Trump's reversal of protections for transgender students — Companies from Apple to Lyft have issued statements following the administration's announcement on Wednesday. — by
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| Jillian Stampher / GeekWire: |
Google.org announces $11.5M in grants to 10 organizations focused on racial equality in the justice system, including $5M to create database of police actions — Google has committed $11.5 million in grants to organizations working to reduce racial inequalities in the criminal justice system …
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Amazon fights against search warrant for Echo recordings in murder trial, argues Alexa commands and responses have First Amendment rights — Amazon is sticking to its guns in the fight to protect customer data. The tech titan has filed a motion to quash the search warrant for recordings …
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Google updates Gboard for iPhone with support for voice typing, 15 new languages, Google Doodles, and iOS 10 emoji — In May 2016, you first met Gboard, our app that let you search and send information, GIFs, emoji and more, right from your keyboard. In July, Gboard went global.| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook begins testing ad breaks in partner videos, sharing 55% of ad revenue; Live videos from Pages with 2K+ followers will get an ad break option — Many publishers have trouble making money off Facebook videos — this could change that. — Facebook is ready to make money from all the videos … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands its push into original content with three new podcast series on music and pop culture, with more originals to be announced later this year — Spotify is expanding its podcast selection today, with the announcement that it's adding three new original podcast series on its service …
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Google's Jigsaw unveils Perspective, an AI-powered tool for publishers to weed out abusive comments, available as an API for free — A research team tied to Google unveiled a new tool on Thursday that could have a profound effect on how we talk to each other online.
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FCC votes to lift transparency requirements, such as disclosing network performance and data caps, for ISPs with under 250K subscribers — The newly Republican-controlled FCC took its first steps to scale back net neutrality today by voting to lift transparency requirements from smaller internet providers.| Maciej Cegłowski / Idle Words: |
Internet services companies should offer a “travel mode” that limits contacts and history to a minimal subset, to protect users from invasive searches at border — News reports tell us that Customs and Border Patrol has become more aggressive about checking social media accounts at the border.
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