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Google says it has captured more than 10M miles of Street View imagery, and, via Google Earth, mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live (Richard Nieva/CNET)

Richard Nieva / CNET: Google says it has captured more than 10M miles of Street View imagery, and, via Google Earth, mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live  —  Exclusive: The search giant has also mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live, through satellite photos

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Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank account numbers, compensation info of 29,000 Facebook employees, stolen in a car break-in (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank account numbers, compensation info of 29,000 Facebook employees, stolen in a car break-in  —  – Some 29,000 current, former employees impacted by theft  — Unencrypted hard drives were stolen from payroll worker’s car Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank

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Hackaday Podcast 046: Bring Us Your Nonsense, Hacking NES Clones, Grasping FPGAs, Many a Music Hack, and Fish Tanks Full of Random

Difference of two Vikram moon images, contrast tweaked. Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys highlight the most delightful hacks of the past week. Need a random-number showpiece for your office? Look no further than that fish tank. Maybe the showpiece you actually need is to complete your band’s stage act? You want one of

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A look at the rise of Roku, which is valued at $17B and whose stock is up 300% this year, amid escalating competition from Amazon, Google, and others (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A look at the rise of Roku, which is valued at $17B and whose stock is up 300% this year, amid escalating competition from Amazon, Google, and others  —  More than 30 million people use a Roku device to navigate the constellation of streaming TV services.  The company’s portfolio includes the … A look

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Facebook has filed more lawsuits against scammers this year than in all previous years combined, a legal strategy that could help it stave off regulation (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: Facebook has filed more lawsuits against scammers this year than in all previous years combined, a legal strategy that could help it stave off regulation  —  When Facebook caught the New Zealand-based company Social Media Series Limited selling likes from fake users on Instagram, the tech giant did something out of character. Facebook

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Bonobos founder Andy Dunn to leave Walmart in early 2020, two years after selling his menswear brand to Walmart for $310M (Lauren Thomas/CNBC)

Lauren Thomas / CNBC: Bonobos founder Andy Dunn to leave Walmart in early 2020, two years after selling his menswear brand to Walmart for $310M  —  KEY POINTS  —  The founder of Bonobos, Andy Dunn, is leaving Walmart, roughly two years after the company acquired the money-losing online apparel retailer … Bonobos founder Andy Dunn

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Inside Google's culture war as some employees and managers describe a "climate of fear" and the erosion of transparency that once defined the company (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Inside Google’s culture war as some employees and managers describe a “climate of fear” and the erosion of transparency that once defined the company  —  Restive workers see a culture in ‘total collapse.’  —  Each morning, workers at Google get an internal newsletter called the “Daily Insider.” Inside Google's culture war as some employees

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