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• Three months ago, he was laid off from Twitter. Now, his competing app Spill is funded.
• In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right to Privacy
• US attorney says ‘we are not done’ charging individuals for FTX collapse
• Senate Democrats call for criminal investigation of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
• 10 tips for addressing problems with your child’s teacher
• Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down
• Coinbase reports $1.1 billion in net loss, revenue drops 60% in Q2
• Tumblr said 420 Blaze it (but literally)
• We just found out how Musk may finance his $43B Twitter bid
• The Age of the Influencer Has Peaked. It’s Time For the Slacker to Rise Again
• Best Blockchain Games of 2022
• YouTube’s head of Gaming leaves to join blockchain group Polygon
• Maybe creator funds are bad
• What Happened to Amazon’s Bookstore?
• Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down
• MrBeast’s management company, Night Media, has a new venture fund that’s backed by creators
• If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?
• Mark in the Middle
• The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
• How ‘Lean In’ Feminism Created Elizabeth Holmes and the Toxic Ladyboss
• Stockwell, the AI-vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega, is shutting down July 1
• Cruise lays off 8% of workforce amid COVID-19, puts resources toward engineering
• The intersection of small business, tech and our financial system is more important than ever
• Tesla’s furlough calls begin with delivery and sales taking a hit
• Yelp lays off 1,000 employees and furloughs 1,100 more
• Before suing NSO Group, Facebook allegedly sought their software to better spy on users
• GrubHub/Seamless’s pandemic initiatives are predatory and exploitative, and it’s time to stop using them
• Pex buys Dubset to build YouTube ContentID for TikTok & more
• Twitter CEO’s weak argument why investors shouldn’t fire him
• SoftBank’s Rajeev Misra Used Campaign of Sabotage to Hobble Internal Rivals
• DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
• Baraja’s unique and ingenious take on lidar shines in a crowded industry
• Google wants to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years
• Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors
• How Bad is Tech Use for Kids
• Kid-focused STEM device startup Kano sees layoffs as it puts Disney e-device on ice
• PayPal COO Bill Ready to depart at end of 2019
• Z shell and Bash shell on MacOS
• 3 kids. 2 paychecks. No home.
• Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished
• Why office noise bothers some people more than others
• Sonos acquires voice assistant startup Snips, potentially to build out on-device voice control
• PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
• The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
• Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding
• WeWork Lessons for Startups
• Change of Google leadership team in Asia
• Google hires former Disney and Star executive to head its India business
• Why each Libra member’s mutiny hurts Facebook
• Instacart shoppers are organizing a nationwide protest
• Data persistence in Docker container
• Google Cloud’s COO has left after less than a year
• WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down
• Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
• Andrew Mason’s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices
• Uber plans to keep defending independent contractor model for drivers
• Why GDPR is a gift to Google’s competitors
• Alibaba reportedly near finalizing a deal to acquire NetEase’s cross-border e-commerce unit
• The NFL joins TikTok in multi-year partnership
• YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims to steal creator revenue
• The renaissance of silicon will create industry giants
• Apple is suing Corellium
• Facebook is losing its last Oculus co-founder
• Facebook collected and transcribed users’ audio without permission
• ByteDance launches a new search portal that returns a mix of results from the Web and its own platforms
• London edtech startup pi-top sees layoffs after major contract loss
• Pentagon puts $10B contract on hold after Trump swipe at Amazon
• With the acquisition closed, IBM goes all in on Red Hat
• How to Setup Reverse SSH Tunnel on Linux
• An inside look at the startup behind Ashton Kutcher’s weird tweets
• Elon Musk’s Boring Company snags $120 million in new funding
• Websites are (probably) making less money because of GDPR
• Forget the fine—we should have taken Facebook to court, says FTC commissioner
• DeepMind is helping Waymo evolve better self-driving AI algorithms
• In-N-Out Files Lawsuit Against Food Delivery Startup DoorDash
• Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics
• Uber tests monthly subscription that combines Eats, rides, bikes and scooters
• Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership
• VMware acquires ML acceleration startup Bitfusion
• Parrot’s getting out of the low-end drone business
• After Baidu tie-up, BMW taps Tencent for autonomous driving in China
• WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO
• Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
• Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community
• Symmetry – The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries
• Facebook collected device data on 187,000 users using banned snooping app
• Google will stop peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
• Uber Air picks Melbourne as its first international launch city
• Twitter Developer Labs opens to all with release of first APIs
• Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion
• Procrastination is an emotional problem
• ‘Gato Roboto’ and ‘Dig Dog’ put pixelated pets to work in gleeful gaming homages
• Uber Eats, micromobility services are growing faster than Uber’s core ride-hailing business
• Muro is a retro-style cylinder music box you control with an app
• Once poised to kill the mouse and keyboard, Leap Motion plays its final hand
• Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
• Logz.io lands $52M to keep growing open source-based logging tools
• The controversy over WeWork’s $47 billion valuation and impending IPO, explained
• Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb has rejoined the venture world — but he hasn’t forgotten Juul
• Palantir’s Hotly Anticipated IPO Set to Slide to 2020