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Amazon is buying a doorbell startup, Facebook opened up about campaign ads, and Bill Gates dislikes cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here is the tech news you need to know today…..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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1.\u00a0Amazon will spend a reported $1 billion (\u00a3719 million) to acquire doorbell startup Ring<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Ring offers a video-enabled doorbell that beams footage of whoever’s outside to the homeowner’s phone.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth has disputed claims that Donald Trump’s camp paid more for Facebook ads during the 2016 election campaign than Hillary Clinton’s<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Bosworth shared a chart showing Trump’s cost-per-impression surged in the final weeks.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Snapchat downloads surged after its redesign, despite massive criticism over the changes<\/a>.<\/strong>Snapchat’s average growth in first-time installs was up 55% week on week, when comparing the week before and after the redesign.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Bill Gates said cryptocurrencies had “caused deaths in a fairly direct way” unlike almost any other technology<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0In a Reddit AMA, Gates noted cryptocurrencies were used to buy drugs, launder money, and fund terrorists.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Ex-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has shut down his new venture, a fitness app called Chorus<\/a>.<\/strong>The idea was that a group of friends would sign up and declare their fitness goals to motivate each other, but the app struggled to keep users beyond a few weeks.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak said he had $70,000 (\u00a350,000) in bitcoin stolen from him<\/a>.<\/strong>A scammer paid him for the bitcoin via a credit card, but the card number turned out to be stolen.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Secretive data firm Palantir has been quietly using New Orleans as a testbed for its “predictive policing” technology, according to The Verge<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0The tool traced gang members’ connections to other criminals.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Uber executive Frances Frei, who was hired to fix the company’s culture, is leaving after less than a year<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Now that ex-CEO Travis Kalanick is out, many of the company’s cultural problems have seemingly been resolved.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Google said it’s complied with about 43% of 2.4 million “right to be forgotten” takedown requests received over three years<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0Most requests come from individuals, but a growing number come from celebrities and politicians.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Moonfruit cofounder Wendy Tan White may set up her own artificial intelligence and deep tech fund after leaving as a partner at BGF Ventures<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0White said AI will shake up computing in the way mobile did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon is buying a doorbell startup, Facebook opened up about campaign ads, and Bill Gates dislikes cryptocurrencies. Here is the tech news you need to know today….. 1.\u00a0Amazon will spend a reported $1 billion (\u00a3719 million) to acquire doorbell startup Ring.\u00a0Ring offers a video-enabled doorbell that beams footage of whoever’s outside to the homeowner’s phone. 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