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Top 5 tech news of the week
Here are the top five tech news by popularity of last week. Singapore tells Facebook to correct anti-government post on 29 Nov An online news publishing website State Time Review shared a post on their Facebook page mentioning about an arrest of a whistleblower by the Singapore...
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Google fires four employees, including Rebecca Rivers and Laurence Berland
Google has terminated its four employees on the charges of violating the company’s privacy policies, data security, and employee safety. Before this decision, Google has already put two employees on leave for allegedly breaching the confidential documents of the company. According to Google, they...
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Big flaw in Android Camera lets hackers spy users secretly
A security research team found several vulnerabilities, CVE-2019-2234, in the camera app of Pixel 2 XL and Pixel 3 smartphones. All of these became possible due to the vulnerability that allows an intruder to bypass the user's permission. After the further probe, the team...
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D1 Capital Partners making big bets on FAANG Stocks
Dan Sundheim's D1 Capital Partners strengthened its position in Amazon by injecting $588 million during the third quarter, according to regulatory filings released Thursday. The hedge fund, which is investing heavily in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), also increased its stake in...
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Google now lets you know how similar your voice is to Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury, a British singer and a lead vocalist for the rock band Queen, is regarded as a legend in rock music. Bohemian Rhapsody, a dramatic faux opera of the famous singer, has already crossed a billion views on YouTube, making it one of...
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Google said bye to an employee and put two on leave amid policy violations
Google has dismissed an employee from the job on leaking staffer details with the media and sent two employees on leaves on the charges of violating company policies. Reports are that terminated employee has leaked names and personal information of other employees to external...
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Google acquired medical data of millions under secret project ‘Nightingale’
Google has covertly acquired health care records of millions of patients, without their approval. It has been revealed that Google and Ascension, a Non-profit Catholic health care provider, were jointly involved in a secret data-gathering project called "Nightingale". The report was also quoted that neither the...
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Google to start the accelerator program for climate change startups 🚀
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Google is planning to launch an accelerator program to support the startups working to measure climate change, environment, sustainability, and similar projects. Kate Brandt, Chief Sustainability Officer at Google, while attending the Web Summit 2019 tech event in Lisbon, Portugal announced the future...
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Facebook reportedly aimed to acquire Fitbit before Google
The giant social networking company Facebook was also interested in buying Fitbit for $1 million that is approximately half of the amount Google offered to acquire it. As we already reported about Google’s interest in buying Fitbit. Now, Google has acquired Fitbit for the...
Google acquired Fitbit for $2.1b
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Google parent company ALPHABET is to buy smartwatch maker Fitbit for $2.1 billion. In a blog post released by Google SVP of Devices & Services Rick Osterloh said that the acquisition of Fitbit is "an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS...
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