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10 things in tech you need to know today, November 30
Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an all-hands meeting that
the company deserves some fault after its self-driving car
killed a pedestrian. During an all-hands meeting
at Uber on Tuesday, Khosrowshahi and the head of the
self-driving car unit, Eric Meyhofer, were questioned by
employees about the culture at the autonomous-car unit.
Google’s Dragonfly execs didn’t take written notes and isolated
internal teams to hide China search plans from other
employees. The Intercept published a report on
Thursday describing the efforts at Google to push aside
internal security and privacy concerns over its controversial
project, Dragonfly.
Sheryl Sandberg reportedly wanted to know if George Soros, who
publicly criticized Facebook, was shorting the company’s
stock. This comes after it was revealed that
Facebook had a relationship with the opposition-research firm,
Definers Public Affairs.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and DJ Khaled will each pay more than
$100,000 in fines to settle charges that they illegally touted
ICOs. Mayweather received $100,000 from
cryptocurrency comany Centra Tech to promote its ICO, while
Khaled was paid $50,000.
Nintendo had a record-setting Black Friday weekend, but Switch
sales are still lower than expected after a slow
year. Nintendo also revealed that 8 million Switch
consoles have been purchased in the US since its launch in
March 2017. The company expects to sell 38 million Switch units
worldwide by March 2019.
The software for Sennheiser’s high-end headphones has a bizarre
and potentially dangerous bug that makes users vulnerable to
hackers. Sennheiser has issued an update which
every HeadSetup user, past or present, should download and
install now.
The CEOs of Microsoft and Google are heading to the White House
next week. Tech executives including Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are expected to
attend a meeting with the Trump administration next week.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is putting up $6.1 million to turn
a hotel into transitional housing for San Francisco’s homeless
population. The housing-renovation project is a
partnership between Benioff, San Francisco mayor London Breed,
and the local homeless advocacy group Tenderloin Housing
Clinic.
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says the best day of his year was when
Amazon turned off its largest Oracle data
warehouse. On November 1, Amazon switched off its
largest Oracle database and moved over to its own data
warehouse, Redshift.
E-scooters are sending dozens of people to emergency rooms, and
the companies appear to have a double standards when it comes
to safety. In Austin alone, one emergency room is
seeing 10 injuries a day from scooters, the hospital’s ER
director told CNET.
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