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Google updates its job search with estimated salary ranges, a better location filter, the ability to save individual jobs, and more — To help the millions of people who turn to Google to start their job search, we worked with leaders across the industry to introduce a new experience earlier this year.| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
The provision in the Senate Tax Reform Bill that would have taxed stock options and RSUs upon vesting has been dropped — I just saw this on my twitter: … This means that the Senate has now made the tax reform bill a win for those who work in startups instead of a loss.
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Kickstarter debuts Drip, a service that lets fans subscribe to their favorite creators, in limited beta; sources says 7 out of 8 top execs have left since July — When Kickstarter launched in 2009, there was nothing quite like it: a platform where creators could launch a project with a funding goal …
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Sources: Amazon has scrapped plans for a skinny bundle streaming service combining US broadcast and cable networks, as it believes it won't make enough money — NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has scrapped plans to launch an online streaming service bundling popular U.S. broadcast …
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Engadget, Axios, ValueWalk, Ubergizmo, Neowin, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, Cord Cutters News, AppAdvice.com, Seeking Alpha, and Reuters. Tweets: @trengriffin
| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Interview with Anthony Levandowski on his AI-focused religion, Way of the Future, of which he's the Dean, which aims to find and worship “a Godhead based on AI” — Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather …
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New York Magazine, TechCo, Business Insider, and Mashable
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google updates Assistant with developer support for Spanish, Italian, and other languages, ability to recognize implicit requests, more — Also, the Nexus Player is back — Google has announced a bunch of new updates coming to Assistant today that should make it possible for developers …
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Serbian journalist says Facebook testing split News Feed for Pages and friends was ill-conceived and served to stifle the fledging democracy's independent media — BELGRADE, Serbia — My country, Serbia, has become an unwilling laboratory for Facebook's experiments on user behavior …
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Global Voices Advocacy. Tweets: @kimmaicutler, @lorenzofb, @alexhern, @alexhern, @nytopinion, @dlberes, @counternotions, @profcarroll, @janelytv, and @alexhern
| Amanda Silver / Visual Studio Code: |
Microsoft says it is working on Visual Studio Live Share, letting developers collaborate on the same codebase without the need to synchronize code — We are excited to announce that we're working on “Visual Studio Live Share”, which enables developers using Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code to collaborate in real-time!
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Ars Technica, InfoWorld, Windows Central, VentureBeat, ZDNet, ZDNet, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @peggyrayzis
| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Trump administration publishes inter-agency rules for disclosing or keeping secret cyber security flaws, with decisions to retain flaws being revisited annually — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration publicly released on Wednesday its rules for deciding whether …
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Edinburgh University study identifies 419 Russia-linked Twitter accounts that tweeted about Brexit, all from a list of 2,752 accounts Twitter supplied to US — Researchers find that accounts run from a St Petersburg troll farm tried to sow discord between Britons over the referendum
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple agrees to give limited help to Indian government to develop anti-spam iOS app, after refusing to do so for over a year, citing privacy concerns — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Apple Inc has agreed to give limited help to the Indian government to develop an anti-spam mobile application …
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iMore, InvestorPlace, AppleInsider, iLounge, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, BuzzFeed, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @counternotions
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Amazon brings Echo speakers with Alexa and Amazon Prime Music to Canada; Alexa has a new English voice with a Canadian accent, but isn't available in French — The absence of Amazon's Alexa and Prime Music services in Canada has been a strange oversight, given that the nation's share a border and (one of two) common languages.Sponsor Posts
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