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Fri. 11/09 - Amazon and Apple Cut a Deal
19 minutes Posted Nov 9, 2018 at 1:56 pm.
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The great winter of tech worker discontent is definitely here, Disney’s streaming service has a name, Vine might be coming back, Github hits a major milestone and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
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Amazon is finally selling new iPhones after a long and complicated 'turf war' with Apple (BusinessInsider)
A note to our employees (Google)
#GoogleWalkout update: Collective action works, and we need to keep working. True equity depends on it. (Google Walkout For Real Change)
Amazon Execs Addressed Concerns About Amazon Rekognition And ICE At An All-Hands Meeting (BuzzFeed)
Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019 (TechCrunch)
GitHub passes 100 million repositories (Venture Beat)
The Betterment Weekend Longreads:
Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic)
Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer (NYTimes)
HQ Trivia was a blockbuster hit — but internal turmoil and a shrinking audience have pushed its company to the brink (ReCode)
‘It’s Giant and Has Like Five Million Buttons.’ The Office Desk Phone Won’t Die (WSJ)
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (The New Yorker)
Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air (WSJ)
ASTRONOMERS SEE MATERIAL ORBITING A BLACK HOLE *RIGHT* AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER (SyFy Wire)
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