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Sources: a list of seven employees who quit Google over Dragonfly, including some engineers with up to 11 years tenure, is circulating inside Google — A list that names seven employees who say they quit their jobs at Google over a lack of corporate transparency is circulating within the company's ranks.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Mary Meeker and three partners are leaving Kleiner Perkins to form a new firm; sources describe clashes between early and late stage groups at Kleiner Perkins — Meeker is leading an exodus in a huge split at one of Silicon Valley's most famous firms. — Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Airware, a drone startup that has raised $118M from Andreessen Horowitz, Google's GV, Kleiner Perkins, and others, is shutting down — Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How The Weather Channel and The Future Group used the Unreal Engine to create a stunning depiction of Hurricane Florence's storm surge — AT A CERTAIN point, you think you have a good grasp of what to expect from weather graphics. A color-coded map, a five-day forecast with a sassy cloud.
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| Chromium Blog: |
Google adds support for fingerprint sensors on Android phones and TouchID on Macs to Chrome 70 beta, allowing developers to use biometrics for authentication — Unless otherwise noted, changes described below apply to the newest Chrome Beta channel release for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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| Katherine Ellen Foley / Quartz: |
The FDA cleared the Apple Watch Series 4's heart monitoring abilities based on Apple-backed studies but mandated Apple label the risks of inaccurate readings — When Apple unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 4 yesterday (Sept. 12), the device received a lot of attention for its health-monitoring capabilities.
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| Eudora Wang / China Money Network: |
Tencent-backed Qutoutiao, a China-based content aggregator, prices its downsized IPO at $7 per share, raising $84M and valuing the company at $2.1B — Chinese content aggregator Qutoutiao Inc, which is backed by the country's technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, is seeking to raise US$84 million … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will shut down Fabric, the mobile app development tool it acquired in 2017 from Twitter, in mid-2019 after it migrates Fabric's users to Firebase — On Apple's iPhone day this week, Google announced it is killing Inbox by Gmail. But that's not the only service … | Mitch Stoltz / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF and Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School help eliminate “seven dirty words” restriction policy from .US domain name registrations, reinstating fucknazis.us — Jeremy Rubin just wanted to speak out about the rise of white supremacist groups in the U.S. and raise some money to fight against those groups.
| Lisa Marie Segarra / Fortune: |
Twitch hires its first head of diversity and inclusion from Vimeo, also a new human resources chief and CFO; it now has four women in its seven-person C-suite — Twitch is shaking things up. The Amazon-owned service for streaming video of people playing video games just announced hires …
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| Josh Ye / Abacus: |
Licensing and approval loopholes make games like GTA, banned in China, available for download in the country via Apple's App Store and Steam store — Loopholes in the system and Steam's grey market: A crash course in how games are bought (and sold) in China — If you want to do business in China, you have to play by China's rules.
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| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
Nasdaq to buy Cinnober, a Sweden-based exchange and real-time clearing technology provider, for ~$190M — Nasdaq, the US exchange, has made a $190m bid to buy Cinnober, a Swedish trading technology group, to deepen its push into technology and analytics. — In a statement on Friday Nasdaq …
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is better prepared to fight election interference, catalogs the steps the company has taken to prevent a repeat of 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg began the year by promising to make Facebook safer from election interference around the world.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces $2B Bezos Day One Fund, which will create a network of nonprofit preschools and fund charities that help homeless families — A year after asking for suggestions on philanthropy, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is unveiling his first projects.
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