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10 things in tech you need to know today, November 13
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon will probably pick
New York City and Northern Virginia for its next two major
offices. An announcement is expected on Tuesday.
Apple’s stock price was crushed on Monday after analyst reports
suggested iPhone unit sales will drop year over year — just as
the firm stops making those numbers public. The
driver of the projected sales slump is that Apple’s new $749
phone, the lower-end iPhone XR, might not be the hot seller
that Apple had hoped.
Californian analytics firm Palantir Technologies is looking to
reach profitability in 2019 and eyeing a potential IPO in
2020. But the company needs to cut costs in the
meantime and is reportedly trying to curb “Palantir Entitlement
Syndrome” where staff are accustomed to next-level corporate
extravagance, like 13-course tasting-menu lunches.
Samsung’s foldable phone might arrive in March for a whopping
$1,770. South Korea’s Yonhap news
reported that the name of the phone would be “Galaxy F.”
YouTube is pushing back against a new EU copyright law, which
it says will massively restrict how many videos Europeans can
watch. CEO Susan Wojcicki took aim at the EU
draft directive’s article 13, which would force online
platforms to censor content that breaches copyright.
Facebook is to allow French regulators to keep an eye on its
content moderation processes. In a deal struck
with the Macron government, regulators will have unprecedented
access to Facebook’s systems.
Snapchat’s parent company has lost its second top exec in two
months, as its head of original content departs.
Nick Bell, VP of content, is leaving the company after nearly
five years of building media partnerships and developing
original content for the mobile platform.
A Lime founding executive has insisted the firm has the safest
product — just as it recalls thousands of
scooters. Lime has issued two product recalls in
the last month after people reported handlebars falling off and
the vehicles catching light.
Students in Brooklyn protested their school’s use of a
Zuckerberg-backed online curriculum designed by Facebook
engineers. Schools across the nation have
implemented this free web-based program, which was designed
with the help of Facebook engineers and funded by CEO Mark
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
The US government detected as early as 2013 that Facebook’s
approved partners could potentially misuse millions of people’s
data. Specifically, the government’s privacy
watchdog determined that Facebook didn’t police its hardware
partners closely enough.
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