Tech
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Amazon Has Half as Many Paid Streamers as Netflix – But 50 Percent More Than Hulu (Report)
A whopping 26 million Americans are streaming video on Amazon, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters
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Rihanna Slaps Back at Snapchat for ‘Ignorance,’ Making a ‘Joke’ Out of Domestic Violence
Smartphone game ad asking “Would you rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown?” was pulled earlier this week
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Drake Jumped on Twitch to Play ‘Fortnite,’ Quickly Broke Viewing Record
Rapper Travis Scott and Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster also joined the video game party
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Facebook Bans Far-Right Group Britain First for ‘Hatred Against Minority Groups’
“We are an open platform for all ideas and political speech goes to the heart of free expression. But political views can and should be expressed without hate,” says Facebook
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Facebook to Add Video News Section Ahead of 2018 Midterm Elections
Social network is looking to launch news clips from 10 publishers this summer
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Microsoft Received Hundreds of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination Complaints, Lawsuit Says
One out of 118 pay discrimination complaints were “founded,” according to software giant
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Jake Paul Lays Out 5-Point Plan to Prevent School Shootings in Latest YouTube Video
YouTuber hits “ground floor” in Parkland, Florida to combat gun violence
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Apple SVP Eddy Cue: Don’t Expect a Netflix Buyout Anytime Soon
“Generally the history of Apple — we have not made huge acquisitions,” exec said at South by Southwest
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Dropbox Announces IPO, Setting Valuation Well Under $10 Billion
File-sharing giant had previously been valued near $10 billion
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Ex-Google Recruiter Sues Company For Anti-White, Anti-Asian Hiring Bias
Lawsuit claims tech giant was “systematically discriminating” in favor of black, Latino, and female applicants
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Oath Cancels Instagram Stars’ Show After Mom Outed as Anti-Islam Activist Pamela Geller
Company to launch internal investigation, Oath tells TheWrap
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Twitter Has a Troll Problem and Needs Your Help, Says CEO Jack Dorsey
Co-founder wants to fund research on making Twitter less toxic
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Ex-Google Engineer Sues Company for Sexual Harassment, Says She Was Slapped at Company Party
Loretta Lee says she found a male coworker creeping under her desk
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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg on #MeToo: ‘Not Harassing Us Is Important, but Basic’
Tech exec says male managers need to be more willing to mentor young professional women
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Quinn Norton ‘Sad and Angry’ That NY Times Fired Her Over Internet’s ‘Bizarro-World’ Doppelgänger
“A digital effigy of me was built and burned,” says writer, whose past gay and racial slurs drew condemnation
