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10 things in tech you need to know today, November 7
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Wednesday.
Amazon employees are gearing up to confront CEO Jeff Bezos at
an all-staff meeting this week about selling facial recognition
software to law enforcement. Employees are
urging their colleagues to put pressure on the company at an
all-staff meeting Thursday by inundating CEO Jeff Bezos with
questions, Recode reports.
Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian says “hustle porn” is “one of the most
toxic, dangerous things in tech right now” at Web Summit on
Tuesday. “Hustle porn” is the fetishization of
extremely long working hours, and Ohanian said he let his own
mental health go when he built Reddit.
Marc Benioff invited Elon Musk to dig tunnels in San
Francisco for a new transportation system, and the Tesla
founder accepted. The Salesforce CEO asked Musk on
Twitter whether the Boring Company could come to San Francisco,
and Musk replied: “Sure, we can do it.”- Facebook said
that the 100 accounts it removed ahead of the midterm elections
for “inauthentic behavior” may well be
Russian. Facebook’s head of cyber security
policy told TechCrunch that the company blocked over 100
accounts after receiving a tip-off from law enforcement that
they could be connected to the Russia-based Internet Research
Agency.
A federal judge ruled that chip seller Qualcomm must license
some of its technology to competitors. The
preliminary ruling came in an antitrust lawsuit against
Qualcomm brought by the US Federal Trade Commission in early
2017.
The FCC is calling for all phone carriers to implement
effective caller ID by 2019. The FCC’s Chairman
Ajit Pai said this was important in combating “illegal
robocalls.”
The president of Samsung says “we should really worry about
ethics” as artificial intelligence moves into your
DNA. Samsung Electronics president Young Sohn told
Business Insider about his concerns around AI exploits health
and DNA data.
One of Microsoft’s fastest-rising stars is leaving the company
with the intention of “getting back to building new
things.” Javier Soltero, who came to Microsoft
after his startup, Acompli, was acquired in 2014, is leaving
after four years.
Samsung is hinting that it will reveal its long-awaited
foldable phone on November 7. Samsung’s foldable
phone has been nicknamed “Galaxy F” and “Galaxy X.”- Tinder’s paying user base went up from
3.8 million last quarter to 4.1 million this quarter, and is
projected to bring in $800 million in revenue this
year. Tinder’s parent company Match Group
surpassed its forecasted revenue for Q3.
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