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Facebook CSO Alex Stamos, who is leading the company's Russia investigation, complains via tweetstorm about a misguided media backlash over “The Algorithm” — “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy …
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In email to advertisers, Facebook says it'll manually review ads that target users based on politics, religion, ethnicity, or social issues before they go live — Facebook is going to require ads that are targeted to people based on “politics, religion, ethnicity or social issues” …
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On 60 Minutes, Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale describes how he handpicked Facebook employee “embeds” who assisted the campaign with its ad buys — Trump campaign digital director Brad Parscale says Donald Trump won election on Facebook with highly targeted ads — and infrastructure was a key issue
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
KGI: Android vendor inquiries for camera-based 3D sensing tech nearly tripled since Apple unveiled Face ID — With its iPhone X debut and the introduction of Face ID, Apple has now tilted interest in the mobile industry away from under-display fingerprint recognition, and instead towards … | Paul Lewis / The Guardian: |
Former Facebook, Google, Twitter employees on how they fear the unintended and negative consequences of the attention economy-driven tech they helped develop — Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks who worry the race for human attention has created a world of perpetual distraction that could ultimately end in disaster
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| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Alphabet gets approval from FCC to fly 30 Project Loon balloons over Puerto Rico for 6 months, after Irma and Maria left 90% of the island without cell service — LAST FRIDAY, ENGINEERS on Google parent Alphabet's internet-by-balloon Project Loon tweeted that they hoped to bring emergency connectivity …
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Tweets: @ernopp, @meharris, @omearabrian, @trengriffin, @meharris, and @meharris
| Shareen Pathak / Digiday: |
Inside Amazon's push into advertising, as company prepares to open 2,000 person office, mostly for ad jobs, in New York — Amazon continues to make serious inroads into the advertising business. Its latest move: a new office in Manhattan that it says will bring 2,000 jobs, mostly in advertising … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
New office designs coming to companies like Microsoft include “isolation rooms”, soundproof phone booths, and even lounges where technology is forbidden — First there were individual offices. Then cubicles and open floor plans. Now, there is a “palette of places.”
Tweets: @stevesi, @debeckersley, and @nytimes
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Tim O'Reilly talks about his new book, WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, and how tech is a positive force despite current issues — For more than two decades, Tim O'Reilly has been the conscience of the tech industry. Originally a publisher of technical manuals …
Tweets: @backchnnl and @wired
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Walmart announces Mobile Express Returns program to refund and exchange online items in physical stores, to launch in November and roll out to all US locations — As Walmart continues to build out its e-commerce business to rival Amazon's, its latest development will build on some of the retail giant's … | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Study: race is a stronger impediment than gender for leadership roles in SV; as white women in leadership rose 17% over 8 years, other minority groups declined — WHEN IT COMES to Silicon Valley, Asians are an overrepresented population in the workforce. Even among the tech industry's …
Tweets: @ekp and @triketora
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Google Home Mini review: stylish-looking and sounds a bit better than Echo Dot but lacks a line-out jack, requires Chromecast Audio to use with another speaker — The Google Home Mini sounds better and looks better than the Echo Dot — but Google needs to innovate if it wants to catch Alexa.
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