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Costs pile up for airlines as Boeing 737 Max grounding enters eighth month
How a massive Amazon wind farm will change a rural town in America
Reddit · 14 hours ago
First gas station to ditch oil for electric vehicle charging now open
Visa, Mastercard, eBay, and Stripe say they are exiting Facebook's Libra Association, following PayPal, which announced its withdrawal last week
‘How do you know we’re not investigating?’ California attorney general says after sitting out multistate Google probe
SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down after over nine years, will be an adviser until year end; board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein appointed co-CEOs
Florida is scooping up huge amounts of data on schoolchildren, including security camera footage and discipline records, and researchers are worried
Shooting in Halle, Germany was livestreamed on Twitch; ~5 people watched the 35-minute video live and about 2,200 watched before it was removed in ~30 minutes
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: US heading in ‘same direction as China’ with online privacy
House Financial Services Committee says Mark Zuckerberg will testify on October 23 as part of a hearing on Libra and more
Facebook tells Biden campaign it won’t remove fake ads from politicans
Elon Musk pressured Thai officials to say nice things about his mini-subs in the midst of a deadly rescue mission
Warren attacks Facebook for ‘quietly’ changing its political ad policy after Zuckerberg’s meeting with Trump
US workers may have to change social media use as firms adapt to China's rules
Profile of Katie Haun, who targeted Bitcoin as a US DOJ prosecutor and is the first female general partner at a16z, now co-heading its $350M cryptocurrency fund
The NBA’s China crisis is another reminder of the dangers of Twitter for corporate leaders
Bill Gurley talks about his drive to persuade more tech startups to choose direct listings, instead of traditional bank-led IPOs, to enter public markets
PayPal says it is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, becoming the first of its founding members to do so
Facebook’s Zuckerberg sympathizes with Bernie Sanders’s take on billionaires: ‘No one deserves to have that much money’
Facial recognition technology needs controls on its use, World Economic Forum says
Sundar Pichai says Google will provide 250,000 training opportunities for Americans in technology skills over five years, as part of a White House initiative
Google contractor reportedly tricked homeless people into face scans
Trolls will use fake videos and other new tricks to try and sway the 2020 election, warns Alphabet researcher
Trolls for hire: Russia’s freelance disinformation firms offer propaganda with a professional touch
Sources: Tesla is buying computer vision start-up DeepScale, which has raised ~$18M to date, as it works toward creating truly driverless cars
GoPro unveils $399 Hero8 Black and $499 Hero Max cameras, available for preorder today, shipping in October, and three modular add-ons
Apple would have paid $1.4 billion more last year under Sanders’ income inequality tax plan
US court says FCC cannot bar states from setting net neutrality rules
Zuckerberg vs. Warren: Leaked audio gives a taste of Facebook CEO’s real thoughts on tech regulation
Verizon to acquire the software and technology assets of VR startup Jaunt XR, which raised $100M in funding from Disney, GV, and others; Jaunt is pivoting to AR
WeWork says it will withdraw its S-1 filing as it seeks to postpone its IPO
China’s tech ambition is ‘unstoppable’ — with or without the trade war, analyst says
Alphabet’s Waymo valuation cut 40% by Morgan Stanley amid self-driving car issues
Tesla violated labor laws by blocking union organizing, judge rules
This green cement company says its product can cut carbon dioxide emissions by up to 70%
In an email to staff, Docker CEO Rob Bearden says the company is trying to raise cash amid "significant challenges"; Docker was valued at more than $1B in 2015
SEC Filing: Oracle invested $40M in Ampere, the ARM-based server chip company founded and run by former Intel president Renee James
Facebook confirms employee death was suicide after protest outside its headquarters
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home, as a pilot for employees in Seattle
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1
Sources: Amazon is developing Alexa-enabled wireless earbuds with an accelerometer that monitors things like calories burned and the pace and distance of runs
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Netflix, which has faced new streaming rivals and disappointed on subscriber numbers recently, has seen its stock drop from $380+ in early July to $265.92 today
Apple says it will assemble the new Mac Pro in Austin, TX, after it received federal product exclusions enabling it to import some parts without paying tariffs
Microsoft previews Dynamics 365 Commerce, which lets brands create product web pages with customer ratings and reviews, an expansion of Dynamics 365 for Retail
Techmeme · 3 weeks ago