Ken Yeung

Technology Editor @flipboard. Former journalist @venturebeat and @thenextweb. Marketer and photographer. More info: thelettertwo.com.

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Liu Qiangdong
Attorney for founder Richard Liu says surveillance clips provide different account
scmp.com - Associated Press
An attorney for JD.com founder Richard Liu said on Monday that surveillance video showing the Chinese businessman in an elevator and walking …
Impeachment
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Axios - Rebecca Falconer
8 mins ago Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) told a CNN town hall in New Hampshire Monday Congress should take steps …
Technology
The CEO of a data science learning startup worth $184 million made 'uninvited physical contact' with an employee while dancing
Business Insider - Paige Leskin
The data science community is reeling after data science learning startup DataCamp penned a blog post acknowledging that an unnamed company executive made "uninvited physical contact" with one of its DataCamp,
Southern California Edison
PG&E to California: We need higher rates and profits to improve wildfire safety
sacbee.com - By Dale Kasler
Capitol Alert PG&E to California: We need higher rates and profits to improve wildfire safety April 22, 2019 03:13 PM PG&E asked California regulators …
Beta Testing
Vine reboot Byte begins beta testing
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
Twitter shut down Dom Hoffman’s app Vine, giving away the short-form video goldmine to China’s TikTok. Now a year and half since Hoffman announced he’d reimagine the app as V2 then scrapped that name,
Liberal View
Twitter’s “Verified” Users Are Spreading Viral Misinformation
motherjones.com
As Notre Dame burned, accounts bearing blue check marks flogged false claims of arson. On Monday afternoon, as one of Europe’s most famous landmarks …
T-Mobile
T-Mobile, Sprint lobby regulators to win U.S. approval for tie-up
Reuters - David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior executives at T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp made the case to U.S. officials in Washington last week that they should approve a planned tie-up between the two wireless companies,
Tesla
Elon Musk says Tesla will allow more aggressive Autopilot modes
The Verge - Sean O'Kane
An expansion of the current settings, which stop at ‘Mad Max’ mode Elon Musk said at an event on Monday that Tesla will someday allow drivers to select aggressive modes of its Autopilot driver assistance
San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco at 'boiling point' over tech, houses, homeless
Associated Press - By JANIE HAR, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's renowned waterfront hosts joggers, admiring tourists and towering condos with impressive views. It could also become the site of a new homeless shelter for up to 200
U.S. State Department
Facebook hires top State Department lawyer as general counsel
CNBC - Ari Levy
Facebook announced on Monday that it's bringing in a new general counsel and vice president of communications as it tries to rebuild its image …
Tech Industry
How tech founders are trying to disrupt — and replicate — the Giving Pledge
Recode - Theodore Schleifer
Silicon Valley billionaires can make promises to give away fortunes to charity. Why can’t the rest of us? The Giving Pledge is the brainchild of some of the most prominent elders of Silicon Valley — people
Technology
California Eyes Ban on Contracts With All Tech Companies That Work With ICE
Gizmodo - Patrick Howell O'Neill
Up and down the state of California, lawmakers and activists have been pushing a local and state-level campaign to kill contracts with tech companies …
GitHub
Microsoft Workers Criticize Block of GitHub Protest in China
Bloomberg - Shelly Banjo
A vocal group of Microsoft Corp. employees is calling on the company to support a rare online protest from Chinese technology workers spawned on …
Tesla
Tesla shows off self-driving technology to investors
Reuters - By Alexandria Sage and Vibhuti Sharma
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tesla Inc robotaxis with no human drivers would be available in some U.S. markets next year, continuing a habit of bold pronouncements that have
Technology
When a Country Bans Social Media
The Atlantic - Ian Bogost
Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible? In the aftermath of a series of coordinated terrorist attacks Sunday, Sri Lanka blocked
Samsung
Galaxy Wearable app is partially broken, preventing new setups from fully working
androidpolice.com - Corbin Davenport
If you were hoping to set up your Samsung smartwatch with a new phone, you might want to hold off. The login screen for Samsung Accounts in the …
Elizabeth Warren
Warren unveils $640 billion college debt forgiveness plan
Associated Press - By MEG KINNARD, Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democrat Elizabeth Warren is proposing the elimination of existing student loan debt for millions of Americans, part of a sweeping set of education funding proposals announced as
Samsung
Samsung delays its $2,000 folding phone after test units break
CNBC - Todd Haselton
Samsung has delayed the release of the Galaxy Fold past the original April 26 launch date, the company told CNBC in a statement. Samsung said that the …
Tesla
Model S fire video adds to Tesla woes pre-results
Reuters - by Brenda Goh and Yilei Sun in Shanghai
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Video of a parked Tesla Inc Model S exploding and a Wall Street downgrade of the electric carmaker’s stock pushed shares down 4 percent on Monday, as it prepared to issue results a
Technology
Podcast wars: $100 million startup Luminary launches tomorrow without Reply All or The Daily
The Verge - Ashley Carman
Spotify isn’t playing nice It took less than a day for Luminary to become enemy number one of the podcast industry. Last month, on the same day that it unveiled its subscription podcast service, the company
Technology
WWDC 2019 for developers: Siri, Marzipan and AR improvements, more
9to5Mac - Guilherme Rambo
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on June 3rd. Last week, we shared exclusive details about iOS 13 and macOS 10.15. Today, we are sharing details about new features and APIs for developers
Facebook
How 11 People Are Trying to Stop Fake News in the World’s Largest Election
Bloomberg - Saritha Rai
Join us on WhatsApp for special coverage of India’s election. Sign up here. One of the operations most vital to Facebook Inc. at this moment is a …
Facebook
Big Tech loses its luster at TED
Axios - Ina Fried
For Big Tech, TED is usually a friendly place. Companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft have used past conferences to show off new advances, …
Samsung
Samsung is reportedly delaying the Galaxy Fold due to display issues
Engadget - Jon Fingas
It might not release the folding phone until May at the earliest. If you were jittery about reports of broken Galaxy Fold review units, you might not be the only one. Wall Street Journal sources claim
Intuit
Here’s How TurboTax Just Tricked You Into Paying to File Your Taxes
propublica.org - by Justin Elliott and Lucas Waldron
Come along as we try to file our taxes for free on TurboTax! Did you know that if you make less than $66,000 a year, you can prepare and file your …
Apple Pay
Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon's cloud every month, making it one of the biggest AWS customers
CNBC - Jordan Novet
As Apple and Amazon compete for a greater share of consumer dollars and attention, they also have a particularly intimate business relationship: …
U.S. Politics
Supreme Court to decide whether gay, transgender workers are protected by anti-discrimination laws
The Washington Post - By Robert Barnes
The Supreme Court will deliver election-year rulings on one of the nation’s most consequential and unsettled civil rights issues: whether federal anti-discrimination laws prevent employers from firing
Weird
Inside the Weird, and Booming, Industry of Online Influence
WIRED - Paris Martineau
In the past 10 years, “sponcon,” the business of getting paid to promote a company via your social media, has spread pandemic-like. Sponsored content …
Business
As the war for attention heats up, the job of the future is editor in chief
Axios - Nicholas Johnston
When your smartphone can access any song, movie or book ever created, and you can use it to do anything from ordering food to finding dates to …
Lara Trump
'That's robbery': Concerns mount over Jared Kushner's role in GOP money machine
yahoo.com - Tom LoBianco
WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner got the GOP’s small-dollar money machine finally moving, but in a twist befitting of the insular world of Republican …