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Investigation: 15 employers, including Uber, have advertised jobs on Facebook exclusively to one sex in the past year, with many ads playing to stereotypes — Hundreds of thousands of Americans drive for Uber. And the company is looking for many more. It runs ads on Facebook that say, for example: “Driving toward something?
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option — The screen steals the show — The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch.
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Women startup founders own 39 cents for every dollar of equity a male founder owns, says study that used anonymized data from more than 6,000 US-based companies — New study shows that female employees at startups own 47 cents for every dollar of equity a male employee owns
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
NY AG report on cryptocurrency trading platforms finds many are vulnerable to market manipulation, refers some to regulator for potential legal violations — The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Sony unveils miniature PlayStation Classic console for $99.99, with 20 pre-loaded games, launching on December 3 — 20 ‘genre-defining’ games and two controllers for $99.99 — Sony is following in Nintendo's footsteps and bringing back its original PlayStation console nearly 25 years …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
In a leaked email, Evernote CEO says the company has cut 54 jobs, or 15% of its staff; the news comes amid a recent report that several senior execs have left — It's no secret that Evernote, the productivity app that lets people take notes and organize other files from their working and non-work life …
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Salesforce updates Quip, adding a new PowerPoint-like feature called Slides with real-time collaboration, new apps from Dropbox and Box, and Giphy integration — Quip's Slides rounds out the Salesforce's productivity play. A familiar interface with multiple collaboration tools may make those internal decks a bit more functional.
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YouTube announces it will shut down its standalone Gaming app and launches a new YouTube Gaming destination at youtube.com/gaming, first coming to the US — YouTube will no longer maintain a separate app targeting gaming and live game streaming, the company announced today.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
eMarketer study: Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61B this year, putting Amazon at 3rd place, ahead of Microsoft, in its share of the US digital ad market — Amazon's ad business will bring in $4.61 billion this year, according to a new eMarketer study, up a whopping 60% from the projection of $2.89 billion in March.| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon launches the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit, a set of software tools designed for third-party gadgets that connect with Amazon's Echo devices via Bluetooth — Amazon has already made a point of making it as easy as possible for developers to build their own Alexa devices.| Malte Ubl / Accelerated Mobile Pages Project: |
Google says it is moving the AMP project to an open governance model, forms steering committee with reps from other companies — Over the last 2 years AMP has grown from a tiny open source project with just 2 contributors to a much larger one with over 700 folks contributing over 10,000 commits running on many millions of websites.
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Google Cloud launches Work Insights, a tool that provides data on G Suite adoption rates and collaboration patterns across teams in a company, available in beta — Google has today announced a couple of new tools for G Suite users. — First up, the company lifted the lid on a completely …
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Google is rolling out Chrome OS 69 with Material Theme, Linux support, Night Light, dictation, and more — Chrome OS 69 is rolling out today following the Android and desktop release last week. Version 69 includes the Google Material Theme to coincide with the browser's 10th anniversary.
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Court filing: US government seeks to continue FBI work with Mirai botnet hackers, who pled guilty to creating the malware last Dec., as part of their sentencing — THE THREE COLLEGE-AGE defendants behind the the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet …
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HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll becomes CEO, replacing Rus Yusupov, who will take a creative role, as the company previews a new Wheel of Fortune-like game — HQ wants to prove it's more than a one-trick pony. Almost a year ago, the mobile app, launched by Vine's cofounders within …
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Google Maps is now available on Apple CarPlay with iOS 12, which previously just supported Apple Maps; Waze also plans to support CarPlay in a future update — Google Maps for CarPlay in iOS 12 is now available with version 5.0 out now on the App Store. Apple released iOS 12 just yesterday …
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iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss — Solid updates to a winning formula — Last year, Apple did something out of character: it introduced the usual update to the iPhone …
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| Christine Lagorio-Chafkin / Inc.com: |
Book excerpt: how Reddit co-founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian patched their fractured friendship and reclaimed Reddit's helm — Reddit's co-founders patched their fractured friendship to save the company that defined them. … Steve Huffman had been seeing a therapist for a few years … | Elaine Teng / ESPN: |
Profile of Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, one of the top Fortnite players in the world who shot to fame in March after he played the game with Drake — On a sweltering afternoon in Chicago, with the bass from the closest stage at Lollapalooza booming in the background …
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Microsoft says HoloLens apps Remote Assist and Layout generally available on Dynamics 365 along with previews of new AI-infused CRM tools on Oct. 1 — With its first two business apps built in-house for use with HoloLens, Microsoft is taking off the training wheels to bring its mixed reality headsets …
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Sources: Tesla under criminal investigation by DOJ over public statements made by Tesla and CEO Elon Musk, alongside a previously-reported civil inquiry by SEC — Tesla is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk …
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