Dec 18th 2016
This Week in Tech 593
Coulrophobia
Tech leaders and Trump, Facebook’s Scarlett Letter, another Yahoo hack, and more.
Tech summit at Trump Tower. Why fake news appeals to your lizard brain. 1 billion Yahoo accounts hacked. Why Pebble had to sell to Fitbit. Uber refuses to stop testing self-driving cars in San Francisco. Google creates a new self-driving company, Waymo. Apple's new emoji in iOS 10.2.
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Links
- Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal
- As Trumplethinskin lets down his hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for climbing the Tower in silence - Recode
- Who said what inside the Trump tech meeting: Immigration, paid maternity leave and becoming the ‘software president’
- Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick are joining Donald Trump’s strategic and policy forum
- Uber ordered to halt self-driving cars in California as cars seen running red lights.
- Uber keeps self-driving cars on the road, challenging the law - CNET
- Refuse to help build a Muslim registry
- John Markoff Retires From The New York Times
- The Inside Story Behind Pebble’s Demise
- Wearables are dead
- Fitbit CEO says buying Pebble could help it crack the code on smartwatches - The Verge
- Facebook Pins a Scarlet Letter to Fake News
- Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline—Until Now
- Google’s self-driving arm is spinning out of X and will be called Waymo
- With $1.5 billion in the bank, Google’s anti-aging spinout Calico
- Google debuts Android Things, a platform for building IoT devices with Google services and Android APIs
- Wynn Resorts to put Amazon Echo in 4.7K+ Wynn Las Vegas rooms, starting summer 2017
- Evernote apologizes for its new privacy policy
- Magic Leap is actually way behind, like we always suspected it was
- AirPods are now up for sale on Apple’s site, will start arriving just before Christmas
- Apple removes the ‘time remaining’ battery estimate in new macOS update
- Apple releases iOS 10.2 w/ new emoji, Messages effects, TV app, wallpapers, more