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Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more — Editor's note: Today, our CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to Google employees about changes we're making to better support them.
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| David Gelles / New York Times: |
Sundar Pichai on the walkout, company culture, and how, China aside, Google already operates in countries with censorship laws like “right to be forgotten” — Growing up in India, he slept on the floor of a house without a refrigerator. Today, the chief executive …
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Samsung teases foldable phone that acts as a phone when closed and a tablet when opened, says mass production will begin within months — Our foldable future is here — Samsung has been teasing its foldable smartphone for weeks, and now the company has unveiled it for the first time today.
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Facebook Portal and Portal Plus video chat devices go on sale on Thursday on Portal online store, Amazon, and Best Buy — Facebook on Wednesday announced retail availability for its Portal Plus and Portal smart displays on the Portal online store, Amazon and Best Buy.
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Portal and Portal Plus review: work great for video calls using Facebook Messenger, but as general purpose smart displays they lag behind the competition — Facebook's video calling device demands lots of trust for little return — It's not often that a new gadget gets announced and I don't immediately want to get my hands on it.
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Portal doesn't listen to or view video calls, which are encrypted, runs camera and sound AI locally, and processes usage info like any device with FB apps — We know there are some questions around Portal privacy and ads, so we'd like to provide more details on these topics. — Privacy and Security
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Google renames its popular Android storage management app Files Go to Files by Google and says it is now used by over 30M people each month — Google is renaming Files Go, its lightweight files app for phones with limited storage, to “Files by Google” to reflect that the app works no matter … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google is planning an expansion of its NYC real estate, which currently houses ~7,000 employees, to add space for an additional 12,000+ — Nears office property deal in Manhattan's West Village for enough space to multiply city workforce — Google is gearing up for an expansion …
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Microsoft says it is working on a fix after a problem with its activation server causes some Windows 10 Pro PCs to deactivate their licenses — Some Windows 10 users are having problems with their Pro licenses today, as users on the company's Community Forums and Reddit are reporting …
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Amazon makes the Alexa app, previously available on select laptops, available to all Windows 10 users via Microsoft Store — Available in the Microsoft Store — Amazon is releasing its Alexa app for Windows 10 today. While the app has been available on select Windows 10 laptops recently …
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| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
China's Xinhua News Agency launches “composite anchors”, which combine images and voices of human anchors with text via AI tech from internet company Sogou — - AI anchors have the ability to work 24 hours a day provided human editors keep inputting text into the system
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YouTube finally arrives on the Nintendo Switch, available to download now, following Hulu — Nintendo has sold over 22 million Switch consoles since launch, with plans to sell another 20 million this financial year. — That said, Nintendo hasn't seemed too focused on building out its portfolio of non-gaming apps.
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Eric Schmidt on growing up in Italy, years at Bell Labs, PARC, and Sun, scaling Google, polarization on social platforms, how tech will shape the future, more — Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / SoundCloud / RSS — The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father's profession …
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Tesla names board member and Telstra CFO Robyn Denholm as Chairman of the Board, replacing Elon Musk; Denholm to leave Telstra to work as Tesla chair full-time — - Tesla delivered its largest quarterly profit in the company's history in the third quarter of 2018, reporting about $6.8 billion …
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| Nora Naughton / Detroit News: |
Daimler and Bosch partner to launch a pilot autonomous ride-hailing service in San Jose in the second half of 2019 — German automaker Daimler AG and supplier Robert Bosch GmbH have chosen San Jose in Silicon Valley as its pilot city for an autonomous ride-hailing service that's set to launch … | Tom Simonite / Wired: |
To keep up with Moore's Law, companies are assembling processors from pieces of silicon called chiplets, rather than carve them from silicon as single chips — IN 2016, THE chip industry's clock ran out. — For 50 years, the number of transistors that could be squeezed onto a piece …
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Dutch police say they decrypted 258,000+ messages sent using IronChat, which claims to have end-to-end encryption, as part of a money laundering probe — Weakness allowed cops to monitor encrypted messages for some time. — Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, raises $25M Series A led by Accel, with Altair Capital participating — RealtimeBoard, a whiteboarding platform that allows teams to collaborate remotely, has raised $25 million in a series A round of funding led by Accel …
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Ayar Labs, which makes an optical-based chip that it says boosts speeds on high-performance computer systems, raises $24M Series A led by Playground Global — Ayar Labs, which builds an optical-based chip that boosts speeds on high performance computing systems, announced Wednesday … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Some experts say Facebook performed well for the midterms, but disinformation and false news still spread fast, requiring outsiders' monitoring and prodding — After an Election Day largely free of viral social media misinformation, and with little trace of the kind of Russian troll stampede …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will warn users about unclear billing charges and subscription signups — Earlier this week, Google announced that Chrome would remove ads from sites with persistently abusive experiences. The browser will soon protect against sites that try …
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Fossil launches the Sport Smartwatch, which comes in two sizes, six colors, runs Wear OS, and has an integrated heart sensor, available today for $255 — Fossil is taking another shot at Android wearables — Fossil has announced its first smartwatch with a Snapdragon 3100 chip and Google's redesigned Wear OS.
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Netflix announces plans to make 17 original productions in Asia including shows in Chinese and Thai as it looks abroad for growth — Jonathan Weber, Aradhana Aravindan — * Firm seeing quicker subscriber growth outside U.S. — * To make 17 more original productions in Asia
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Xiaomi opens its first UK store in London and rolls out the flagship Mi 8 Pro, alongside other products, as it continues its push into Europe — Xiaomi marked its official entry into the U.K. today with the launch of the Mi 8 Pro, a smartphone with a 6.21-inch screen, alongside a range of other products …
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