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10 things in tech you need to know today, November 6

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Jeff Bezos
Amazon is said to have
selected two locations for its HQ2.

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.


  1. Facebook suspended 115 accounts the day before the US midterm
    elections
    The accounts were brought to
    Facebook’s attention by law enforcement, who suspected links to
    “foreign entities.”

  2. Amazon plans to set up 2 different locations for its HQ2, in
    New York and Virginia
    .
    Amazon is said to have
    selected two cities as the site of its second headquarters: The
    Long Island City section of Queens, New York, and the Crystal
    City area of Arlington, Virginia, The New York Times reported
    on Monday evening.

  3. Facebook pulled Donald Trump’s controversial immigrant ad for
    violating its advertising policy on “sensational
    content.”
     After Fox News and NBC pulled the
    ad which was widely condemned as racist, Facebook decided to
    block it from paid distribution.

  4. Apple’s new MacBook Air and 2018 MacBook Pros physically
    disconnect the microphone when you close the lid to stop
    hackers from eavesdropping on your conversations
    .

    The cameras on the latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pros aren’t
    disconnected, however, as the “field of view is completely
    obstructed when the lid is closed.”

  5. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff got into a Twitter beef with
    another exec over a controversial measure tackling San
    Francisco’s homelessness crisis
    .
    Proposition C is
    a ballot measure in San Francisco, California, that would tax
    the city’s largest corporations to provide more funding to
    homeless services.

  6. A new app can show you the voting history of your friends and
    coworkers, and even which political party they’re registered
    with
    .
    The app, called Vote With Me, provides
    information about the elections taking place in your district,
    lets you know whether a race is tight, and shows you how to
    prepare for Election Day.

  7. Electric scooter hire is coming to the UK under a deal struck
    by $2 billion startup Bird
    .
    Bird is the first
    electric scooter company to launch in the UK, beating
    competitors like Lime and Uber to the punch.

  8. Twitter is struggling to curb fake Elon Musk accounts promoting
    cryptocurrency scams
    .
    The scammers are hacking a
    verified account, changing the display name to “Elon Musk,”
    copying his profile photo, and tweeting about a fake
    cryptocurrency giveaway.

  9. Amazon is launching a new delivery program and hiring thousands
    of drivers, with a warning against “peeing in bottles,” a
    source told Business Insider
    .
    Amazon is hiring its
    own fleet of full-time drivers to deliver packages to Prime
    customers, having previously relied on delivery services
    provided by UPS, FedEx, the US Postal Service, and contractors.

  10. A Chinese tech billionaire has been accused of plying a student
    with drink and then forcing himself on her during a trip to the
    US
    .
    The Minneapolis Star Tribune published a long
    account describing a student’s rape allegation against Liu
    Qiangdong, the billionaire founder of Chinese tech firm JD.com.

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