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James Damore blames Google's intense echo chamber, exacerbated by outside reactions, for his firing — James Damore says that his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn't be tolerated in the company's ‘ideological echo chamber.’
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
“This Is Just Like GamerGate”: How The Pro-Trump Media Turned James Damore Into A Hero Overnight — A week ago, James Damore was anonymous. Now, the Google engineer who lost his job after he wrote a viral anti-diversity screed has become an icon of the alt-right, with more than 40,000 Twitter followers …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud closes $169.5M Series F funding round led by Raine Group and Temasek to stay afloat; former Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor replaces Alex Ljung as CEO — SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat.
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Facebook approved the stealthy release of app similar to Moments in China via a local company that appears to be closely linked to Facebook — SHANGHAI — Facebook and many of its apps have been blocked in China for years. To change that, Mark Zuckerberg has made a big point …
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| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI bot has defeated three top professional Dota 2 players in 1v1 play over the last week — An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world's top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming handle “Dendi,” threw in the towel in the middle …
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| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Twitch launches desktop app with support for voice and video calls on Windows and macOS — Although YouTube is the household name for streaming videos in general, Twitch is still considered the granddaddy of the niche, but also lucrative, game streaming market.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Shervin Pishevar and two other Uber investors demand that Benchmark, which sued Travis Kalanick for fraud, give up its Uber board seat and sell its Uber shares — A group of Uber investors has asked that venture capital firm Benchmark step down from the company's board of directors, Axios has learned.
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| George Slefo / Ad Age: |
Google reveals sites that fail ad test, risk being filtered by upcoming Chrome ad blocker, including Forbes, LA Times, Lifehacker, Chicago Tribune — Credit: Illustration by Tam Nguyen/ Ad Age — Betty Crocker might want to check her inbox Thursday. — The iconic brand is one of roughly … | Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Facebook acquires German computer vision startup Fayteq, which specializes in adding and removing objects from videos — Fayteq, a small German startup that develops technologies for video manipulation, has shut down all sales of its products and services, according to its website.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers show how malware encoded into physical strands of DNA can be used to infect computers running gene-sequencing software — WHEN BIOLOGISTS SYNTHESIZE DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious disease.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / Reuters: |
Coding boot camps in the US are facing stiff competition in a crowded field, with eight schools having shut down or planning to close in 2017 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The hype is fading for coding “boot camps,” for-profit U.S. schools offering graduates entry into the lucrative world of software development.Thanks:@dnvolz
| Már Másson Maack / The Next Web: |
European org urges Apple to support Advanced Mobile Location on iPhones, which gives more accurate locations of emergency calls and is supported on Android — Despite being relatively easy, Apple keeps ignoring requests to enable a feature called Advanced Mobile Location (AML) in iOS.
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