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| Sundar Pichai / The Keyword: |
Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more — At Google we try hard to build a workplace that supports our employees and empowers them to do their best work.
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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 … | Google Walkout For Real Change: |
Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward addressing their demands but it must still address systemic racism and discrimination at the company — Last week, 20,000 Google employees and TVCs (Temps, Vendors and Contractors) walked out to protest discrimination, racism …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019 — - Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, will be a home for its past titles and original series, including new content from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it has fixed an issue deactivating licenses on some Windows 10 Pro machines, says update will be automatically applied over next 24 hours — Microsoft's back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Portal and Portal+ review: they 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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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
Amazon staff meeting transcript: AWS CEO Andy Jassy defends Rekognition, says it's the government's duty to help specify regulations for facial recognition tech — Amazon executives defended the company's controversial facial recognition technology at an all-hands staff meeting on Thursday …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco partners with AWS to provide companies with hybrid cloud solutions for Kubernetes on AWS, available next month — - The collaboration is meant to simplify the deployment of applications on Amazon's cloud or in corporate data centers. — Cisco and other traditional data center companies …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC brings Vive Focus, its standalone VR headset available in China, to North America and Europe for $599 with an Advantage service option costing $749 — HTC will start selling its standalone Vive Focus virtual reality headset worldwide today, after an initial launch in China earlier this year.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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 …
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| Rosalie Chan / Business Insider: |
Dropbox reports Q3 revenue of $360.3M, up 26% YoY and beating expectations, says it had 12.3M paid users, up from 10.4M a year ago; stock up 8%+ after hours — - Dropbox has been trying to break into the enterprise space, but investors and analysts see that as a big challenge, since its service was originally targeted at consumers.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Google hires David Feinberg, CEO of health services organization Geisinger, to lead its health initiatives; sources say he will report to AI head Jeff Dean — - Feinberg will work to coordinate health care efforts across many groups, including Google Brain, Nest and Google Fit.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Check Point: DJI's website and apps had a vulnerability that would have given hackers unfettered access to a drone owner's account, including live video footage — It took about six months for popular consumer drone maker DJI to fix a security vulnerability across its website and apps …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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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| CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it is adding Brave browser's Basic Attention Token to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro — Crypto exchange Coinbase is adding web browser Brave's Basic Attention Token (BAT) to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro.| 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 … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
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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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Bird unveils a new feature called Community Mode, which lets people report badly parked and damaged scooters to the company — Scooter company Bird is looking for tattletales. — It unveiled a new feature on Thursday called Community Mode, which lets people report badly parked and damaged scooters to the company.| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
To keep up with Moore's Law, companies are assembling processors from pieces of silicon called chiplets, instead of carving 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 … | CNBC: |
Yelp reports Q3 revenue of $241M, missing analyst estimates of $245M, and issues weak Q4 guidance; stock down more than 28% after hours — - The company reported revenue of $241 million for the quarter, just shy of analyst projections of $245 million. — “We do not believe there was a single …
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
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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