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A new children’s book based on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos aims to inspire kids to ‘dare to dream big without being afraid to fail’
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Jeff Bezos says employee activists are wrong and Silicon Valley firms should feel comfortable doing business with the US military
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Trump reportedly uses unsecured phone lines. Cybersecurity experts explain why those are ‘so easy to hack it’s scary.’
Reddit has released the most ‘upvoted’ posts of 2019, and it shows how much trolling is part of the platform’s culture
The founder of $1 billion self-driving truck firm TuSimple says human truckers having to spend hours on the road is a ‘tarnish on the glory of humanity’
Less than a year after abandoning HQ2 in New York City, Amazon says it’s opening a new 1,500-employee office in NYC
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Amid ongoing criticism, Facebook is considering using a label to let people know that political ads aren’t fact-checked
Elon Musk wins in defamation trial brought by British diver he called ‘pedo guy’
Amazon’s AWS cloud business has reportedly come under scrutiny from the FTC as it looks into whether the company engaged in anti-competitive behaviour
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I documented every surveillance camera on my way to work in New York City, and it revealed a dystopian reality
Elizabeth Warren just tweeted at Larry Page that Congress will still hold him accountable for Google, regardless of his job title
Current and former Googlers are furious that Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped back instead of fixing the culture
4 ex-Google employees who were fired over Thanksgiving are asking the US government to investigate
TikTok admits it hid disabled users’ videos appearing on the app’s main feed, claiming the ‘blunt’ policy was used to prevent bullying
Armed robbers raided an Amazon truck just before Black Friday as package theft runs rampant across the country
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Protesters are gathering outside of Jeff Bezos’ $80 million NYC penthouse to call attention to working conditions at Amazon’s warehouses
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Huawei’s CEO said his arrested daughter should be proud to be a bargaining chip in the US-China trade war
Google is facing another EU probe about how it collects and uses data, months after receiving a $1.7 billion antitrust fine
Intel says it sold its modem business to Apple at a ‘multi-billion dollar loss’ because Qualcomm ‘strangled competition’
Tinder says ‘there are definitely registered sex offenders’ using the app
China making deepfakes illegal, requiring that AI videos be marked
TikTok’s catastrophic handling of a teen who posted anti-China videos shows it is almost impossible to run a viral platform while following China’s rules
Hackers have reportedly figured out how to reactivate people’s cancelled Netflix accounts and start charging them again for monthly subscriptions
Someone got their own ‘.gov’ website by pretending to be a small-town mayor and filling out an online form
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn’t use Google on his phone but a privacy-focused rival called DuckDuckGo
TikTok issues public apology for suspending the account of the teen behind the viral Chinese takedown video disguised as makeup tutorial
Facebook’s ex-security boss Alex Stamos slams Apple as ‘shameful’ for changing its maps to suit a demand from the Russian government
This robot ‘dog’ can climb ladders, a first for four-legged robots
Twitter backs off on a plan to give away unused old accounts after people complain that it would mean erasing their dead loved ones from the internet
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are already messing with astronomical research but there are thousands more planned
From Snap to Uber, these 9 billion-dollar tech companies still aren’t profitable
Healthcare workers are uncomfortable with tech giants like Google handling patient data, a survey found
Adult performers are slamming Instagram for deleting their accounts, saying they’re held to a higher standard than other users
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An anonymous Microsoft engineer appears to have written a chilling account of how Big Oil might use tech to spy on oil field workers
Facebook’s statement on Sacha Baron Cohen’s viral speech totally misses the point
Uber just lost its licence to operate in London thanks to fraudulent drivers
Scooters, self-driving cars, and bots: San Francisco is finally launching an office to regulate new tech before it enters public areas
From Amazon to GM, here are all the major tech and transportation companies who paid $0 in federal income taxes last year
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Elon Musk says Tesla has already received 146,000 orders for the Cybertruck
Facebook Built a Facial Recognition App That Let Employees Identify People: Report
Google workers protest company’s decision to place workers on leave: ‘Instead of listening to us, the company has chosen to silence us.’
Facebook built a facial-recognition app that let employees identify people by pointing a phone at them .
Most Americans fear they have lost control of their personal information, as Facebook and Google continue to dominate the online ad market
Sacha Baron Cohen tore into Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over hate speech, violence, and political lies
Bill Gates says that the only way to hire and keep AI talent is to let them share their research openly: ‘You can completely ignore whoever tries to close their system’
Stop charging your phone at public charging stations in airports
Amnesty says Google and Facebook threaten human rights
Trump said he’s ‘looking at’ whether Apple should be exempt from China tariffs during visit to the company’s facility in Texas
Amazon tried to remove a Seattle City Councilmember and lost. Here’s how she describes taking on and defeating one of the world’s biggest companies.
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