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NYU professor calls WeWork ‘WeWTF’, says any Wall Street analyst who believes it’s worth over $10 billion is ‘lying, stupid, or both.’
Bernie Sanders wants to ban police from using facial recognition
Twitter ran paid ads from China’s state news media criticising the Hong Kong protests
We talked to the professor who fought Cambridge Analytica to get his data back in Netflix’s ‘The Great Hack’ about why privacy rights in the US are lagging behind the rest of the world
‘Amazon is not their friend’: Amazon sellers are organizing against the retail giant as the FTC and DOJ continues their anti-trust probe
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Amazon’s army of tweeting warehouse workers backfired spectacularly this week after a thread about working conditions went viral
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Google employees are circulating a memo written by a former Googler who says they encountered racism and ‘never stopped feeling the burden of being black’ while working there
Cloudflare’s IPO filing warns investors of a disturbing ‘risk factor’: white supremacists
The world’s first solar road has turned out to be a colossal failure that’s falling apart and doesn’t generate enough energy, according to a report
Facebook has been collecting audio from some voice chats on Messenger and paying contractors to listen to and transcribe it
Google reportedly has a massive culture problem that’s destroying it from the inside
Amazon adds fear detection and age ranges to its facial-recognition tech as the Border Patrol looks to award a $950 million contract
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Samsung spent years trolling Apple in commercials. Now it’s cloning an iPhone feature it mocked and has deleted the ads.
Sources: Instagram has banned "preferred marketing partner" HYP3R, which scraped millions of posts per month, including Stories, and tracked users' locations
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Hong Kong activists use Pokemon Go and Tinder to organize as police crack down on ongoing protests
Facebook has been accused of failing to shut down groups incentivizing people to write fake Amazon reviews
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An internal memo from a Google employee alleging she suffered discrimination and retaliation while pregnant is going viral within the company
THE FIXED 5G DISRUPTION REPORT: Verizon and T-Mobile are setting their sights on Comcast as they attempt to disrupt the $80 billion home internet market
Apple and Google should be ashamed of their part in an insidious Saudi Arabian app that even the Saudi government now admits has to change
It’s much easier than you think to start a robocalling scam campaign (I could make robocalls to millions of people for cheap right now if I wanted to)
Google has been temporarily forced to stop listening in on its users across Europe after leaked data sparked privacy concerns
Sex tech startups protest outside Facebook's NYC offices, saying it bars them from running ads, and launch site to show alleged double standard of ad approvals
Amazon turned a man down for a job but continued to use his photograph as an advertisement for the top talent that it’s looking for
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Capital One found out about its 106-million-customer data breach only because a member of the public emailed it a tip
Elon Musk says SpaceX could land on the moon in 2 years. A NASA executive says ‘we’ll partner with them, and we’ll get there faster’ if the company can pull it off.
GitHub is reportedly blocking access to its site for users in places like Crimea and Iran, which are under US sanctions
Facebook and Google could be forced to hand over details of their algorithms in a new tech regulation push by Australia
Facebook’s privacy settlement is such a joke, Mark Zuckerberg likely celebrated its signing
Facebook And Google Could Be Forced To Hand Over Details Of Their Algorithms In A New Tech Regulation Push By Australia
Facebook gets slammed by new lawsuit from DOJ accusing it of failing to protect your privacy
A contract programmer faces 10 years in jail for inserting a ‘logic bomb’ into a spreadsheet that caused the company to keep rehiring him
Uber is testing a $24.99 subscription that gets you Uber Eats deliveries, bikes, scooters, and discounted cab rides
Facebook’s Record-Setting $5 Billion FTC Fine Was Reportedly Going to be Tens of Billions of Dollars, & Would’ve Held Mark Zuckerberg Personally Responsible
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded company that’s trying to build human-like artificial intelligence
Google honored Apollo 11 software developer Margaret Hamilton with a 1.4-square-mile portrait using moonlight and more than 100,000 mirrors
Facebook and Google know what porn you’re watching, even when you’re in incognito
Amazon Prime Day pricing glitch meant people bought thousands of dollars worth of camera gear for $94.50
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Facebook and Google track what porn you’re watching, even when you’re in incognito
Amazon says Prime Day surpassed Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined, with users buying 175M items, up from 100M in 2018
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The EU just launched a big antitrust probe into Amazon, and it could lead to fine of up to $23 billion
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Google is trying to convince Congress that there’s competition in the search industry, but recent statistics show it owns 92% of the market
Mark Zuckerberg actually got $1 billion richer following the news of Facebook’s $5 billion fine for the biggest scandal in the company’s history
Sen. John Kennedy slams Facebook, accuses it of ‘displacing truthful journalism with flagrant displays of bulls—‘
Peter Thiel slams Google’s ‘seemingly treasonous’ links to China, which he says should be investigated in a ‘not excessively gentle manner’
Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe and the US are striking and protesting on Prime Day
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Mark Zuckerberg net worth up $1 billion after $5 billion Facebook fine
In solidarity with striking Amazon workers, some video game streamers on Twitch are going dark
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The FTC’s $5 billion fine for Facebook is so meaningless, it will likely leave Zuckerberg wondering what he can’t get away with
Some of Amazon’s highly paid tech workers say warehouse worker conditions are ‘a source of shame’
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