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AT&T says it has restored service to 60% of Puerto Rico's population, launches limited LTE connectivity in remote areas in partnership with Project Loon — About a month after Hurricane Maria's devastating landfall on Puerto Rico, and a couple of weeks after the FCC gave clearance …
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Robert Scoble has allegedly continued to sexually harass women after going sober — Venture capitalists Dave McClure, Justin Caldbeck and Chris Sacca, SoFi CEO Mike Cagney and a top Uber engineer have all been accused of sexual impropriety in the last six months as a growing number of women …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zain Jaffer, CEO of video ad startup Vungle, put on indefinite leave after charges for attempted murder, lewd act on a child, and more; Vungle has raised $25.5M — Zain Jaffer, who founded mobile ad firm Vungle and was its CEO until this week, was arrested on Tuesday for attempted murder …
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Federal judge unseals source code for disputed DNA analysis software developed by New York City's crime lab after motion by ProPublica — A federal judge this week unsealed the source code for a software program developed by New York City's crime lab, exposing to public scrutiny a disputed technique for analyzing complex DNA evidence.| Mark DeCambre / MarketWatch: |
Bitcoin price passes $6,000 as its total market value hits $100B+ for the first time — The world's most prominent digital currency was on track to mark a fresh milestone on Friday, with bitcoin rallying and putting the cyber currency in position to hit a total market value of around $100 billion.
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Amazon Echo (2017) review: better-looking than the original and less expensive at $99, with comparable sound quality; addition of an aux output is handy — Review Sections — Review — CNET - Appliances - Smart Home - Amazon Echo (2017) — Three years after the debut of the original …
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Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts to give more weight to subscription-based streaming services and paid tiers of hybrid services starting in 2018 — Billboard has announced that its Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts — which measure singles and albums, respectively … | Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Inside Amazon, diversity concerns flare up over Amazon's handling of harassment accusations against former Amazon Studios chief Roy Price — SEATTLE — Amazon on Friday tried to quell concerns among employees about sexual harassment accusations against an executive, sending an email … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: some employees feel Facebook is being used as a scapegoat for 2016 election outcome using flawed hindsight about factors mostly beyond FB's control — In the summer of 2015, a Facebook engineer was combing through the company's internal data when he noticed something unusual.
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Susan Fowler reflects on the impact of her essay that ignited harassment revelations, says she's working with a talent agency on a movie about her experiences — In her first interview since the essay that started a wave of sexual-harassment revelations, Susan Fowler tells her life story and looks to the future.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Spoke, a help desk automation AI chatbot for businesses, says it has raised a total of $28M from Accel, Greylock, and others since being founded last year — - A people-operations staffer at a start-up that has adopted Spoke spends much less time answering her colleagues' questions.
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Some doctors are wary of applying security update to St. Jude pacemakers, which are now owned by Abbott Labs, due to malfunction risk, thus hampering adoption — Some doctors are wary of software patch that prevents unauthorized access to Internet-connected devices, worried about risk of malfunction
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