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Waymo partners with Walmart, AutoNation, Avis, and others to ferry their customers to various locations in Phoenix, Arizona — Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google's former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country's largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles.
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon says Cloud ESP, its feature for third-party devices that lets the device closest to a user respond to a question or command, is now generally available — One of the biggest parts of Amazon's strategy for expanding the voice-activated Alexa ecosystem is to help third-party manufacturers make Alexa gadgets of their own.| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out Watch Party, a feature that lets users simultaneously watch, comment, and react to Facebook videos together, to all users — Facebook has made it clear that it wants to make video a crucial part of its business, as it looks to compete with the likes of YouTube, Amazon and Netflix.
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese government has withdrawn its approval for Facebook's new subsidiary in the country — SHANGHAI — For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. — For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: YouTube removed four videos from Alex Jones' channel for hate speech and child endangerment, but counted the takedowns as one strike toward the channel — The video site removed four of Jones' videos on Tuesday — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' YouTube channel received a strike …
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| Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, who led the company's investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving at the end of the year — Colin Stretch's announced exit marks the second high-level departure in recent weeks — Facebook Inc.'s FB 1.78% top lawyer …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Grubhub to acquire Boston-based LevelUp, which offers a platform to manage digital ordering, payments and loyalty, for $390M in cash — Grubhub announced this morning that it's agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. — Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Google unveils Titan Security Key, a phishing resistant 2FA device that has USB and Bluetooth versions for ~$20 and ~$25 each, coming to all within a few months — When Google boasted that none of its 85,000-plus employees had their accounts hacked since early 2017, it was all thanks …
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Big pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline buys $300M stake in 23andMe, forming 4-year partnership to develop new drugs, whereby both firms will share costs and revenues — 23andMe, the maker of genetic testing kits for consumers, is partnering with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to develop new drugs.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Gym membership startup ClassPass raises $85M Series D led by Temasek, bringing the total funding raised to $255M — ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup's Series C financing.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sen. Ron Wyden, who co-wrote Section 230 of Communications Decency Act, on privacy, content moderation, First Amendment, and tech giants like Facebook — There may not be a lawmaker in Congress who has done more to shape the internet than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
2018 MacBook Pro review: great chip performance after latest software update, keyboard slightly nicer to type on, better security and “Hey Siri” with T2 chip — They have a lot to live up to — Additional reporting and photography by Vjeran Pavic. Video by Felicia Shivakumar and Vjeran Pavic.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google now offers businesses a stand-alone version of Google Drive, apart from G Suite, that costs $8 per month per active user and $0.04 per GB — If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equidate, a San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, raises $50M Series B — Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them …
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| Kane Wu / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese chip manufacturer Tsinghua Unigroup signed a deal last month to acquire French smart chip components maker Linxens for about €2.2B — HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top state chip manufacturer Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd has signed a deal to acquire French smart chip components maker Linxens …
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