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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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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
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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| 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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| 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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| Lauren Kirchner / ProPublica: |
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.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine's founders are back with HQ, a live trivia game show app — “It's a way to give people a chance to have fun, maybe win, maybe learn something new.” That's how former Vine co-founder Rus Yusupov describes his new trivia game show app HQ, which feels like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire meets Facebook Live.
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| Sherri L. Smith / Tom's Guide: |
Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset review: easy setup, broad compatibility, but apps and games are lacking, and it costs as much as the more capable Oculus Rift — Just when you were getting used to virtual and augmented reality, here comes Microsoft to muddy up the waters with its new mixed-reality headsets.
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Laptop Mag, The Verge, CNET, Paul Thurrott, Windows Central, Road to VR, TheStreet, Road to VR, and Microsoft Store. Thanks:@mspoonauer
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
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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PC Magazine, TechRadar.com, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, and GeekWire. Tweets: @cnet. Thanks:@msdtechnews
| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
Profile of Judge William H. Alsup of Oracle v. Google and Waymo v. Uber, who ruled against API copyright and taught himself to program in QuickBASIC — On May 18th, 2012, attorneys for Oracle and Google were battling over nine lines of code in a hearing before Judge William H. Alsup of the northern district of California.| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
How Russian hackers could have used Kaspersky's “silent signatures” method for detecting and analyzing malware to steal NSA docs without Kaspersky's knowledge — Kaspersky Lab has come under intense scrutiny after its antivirus software was linked to the breach …
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| 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 …
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| Maureen Dowd / New York Times: |
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.Sponsor Posts
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