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- A look at autonomous weapons systems being developed by the US and the arguments for and against imbuing autonomous robots with lethal decision-making (Kelsey D. Atherton/New York Times)
- Jia Li, R&D head of Google Cloud AI who also co-led Google's China AI Center in Beijing, has left the company to work full-time at Stanford University's AIMI (Tony Peng/Synced)
- How a website, Civil War Photo Sleuth, is helping historians and enthusiasts use facial recognition software to identify people in Civil War photographs (Erica X Eisen/Slate)
- Silicon Valley's alliance with Democrats, already strained by issues like fake news and Cambridge Analytica, is at a breaking point after NYT's Facebook exposé (New York Times)
- Ex-CSO Alex Stamos says no one at Facebook ever told him not to examine Russian interference, but company's comms strategy of minimization and denial was wrong (Alex Stamos/Washington Post)
- Mythical Games has raised $16M Series A to build out its blockchain-based player-owned economies starting on a EOS blockchain (Mike Fleming/Deadline)
- Crypto startup Amun says it has been given the green light to list the first crypto Exchange Traded Product on Switzerland's SIX Swiss Exchange (Trustnodes)
- Microsoft is now selling Amazon's Echo smart speakers from its retail and online stores (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott.com)
- Report: Facebook notified some Instagram users that a now-fixed bug in its data download tool sent their passwords in plaintext in a URL that the users received (Richard Lawler/Engadget)
- YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including "The Terminator" (Garett Sloane/Ad Age)
- eMarketer forecast: Walmart to overtake Apple as No. 3 US online retailer by the end of 2018, after capturing 4% of all online retail spending, up 39.4% YoY (eMarketer Retail)
- An in-depth look at how misinformation and incendiary images on Facebook are spreading in Nigeria, where police say they contributed to a dozen recent killings (BBC)
- How podcasts, whose audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion, became a seductive mode of storytelling that can sometimes be manipulative (Rebecca Mead/New Yorker)
- Microsoft says HockeyApp, the beta-testing service for app developers it acquired in 2014, will fully transition to Visual Studio App Center on Nov. 16, 2019 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
- A look at the incentives cities offered to Amazon in their HQ2 bids, including an exclusive airport lounge, relocation expenses for employees, and more (BuzzFeed News)
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Silicon Alley Insider
- How Slack's CTO survived 2 failed game startups and a painful sale to Yahoo to build a $7.1 billion company
- Three untapped opportunities wearables present to health insurers, providers, and employers
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- IoT Report: How Internet of Things technology is now reaching mainstream companies and consumers
- How brands can benefit as voice streamlines product discovery, drives sales, and boosts customer loyalty (GOOGL, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)
- NASA will retire its new mega-rocket if SpaceX or Blue Origin can safely launch its own powerful rockets
- Facebook's latest scandal is the last straw pushing some users to delete their accounts ? here's how to do it
- The 6 biggest differences you need to know about when switching from an older iPhone to the iPhone XS Max (AAPL)
- Silicon Valley has had a tough 3 months ? here are the top tech executives who won and lost big (AMZN, FB, AAPL, INTC, AMD, SNAP, GOOGL, NFLX, DBX, ROKU)
- Amazon is building a second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia ? here's a look at CEO Jeff Bezos' nearby mansion, which is undergoing $12 million in renovations
- Despite predictions and controversy, PewDiePie has yet to lose his spot as YouTube's 'biggest star'
- Scorned Facebook and Twitter users are flocking to LinkedIn to spew hate speech, MAGA memes, and misinformation
- Mark Zuckerberg's spectacular failure of leadership shows why some Facebook investors are desperate to fire him
- These 2 tech founders lost their friends in tragic accidents. Now they've built AI chatbots to give people life after death
- Bose's $350 noise-cancelling headphones are a must-have if you want to live in a quieter world ? and they sound great, too
- Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is worth $5.5 billion ? here?s how he spends his fortune, from a $36.4 million penthouse to a year-long trip around the world
- A ruling is imminent on the legality of a controversial drug that's used to treat addiction ? but some have called it a 'dangerous opioid'
- The 20 best cars you can buy that cost less than $65,000
- Silicon Valley's favorite e-cig company shut down its social media accounts ? but Juul's advertising now has a life of its own
- The world's largest cruise ship has robot bartenders and a nine-story zip-line ? here's what it looks like inside (RCL)
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