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Ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Takes Sides in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Dorsey, who is CEO of payment services Block, formerly Square, is the second big name from Silicon Valley to choose a side in the Russian war.

The Street

Elizabeth Holmes set for prison: Why Hollywood can’t get enough of Silicon Valley stories

The jaw-dropping stories of Silicon Valley’s biggest successes - and biggest failures - make for thrilling TV

Evening Standard

South American ‘criminal tourist’ gangs are targeting affluent Silicon Valley homes for burglary, police say

Officers in two affluent California suburbs say gangs rotate crew members through the US for a few weeks at a time to steal and then vanish

The Independent UK

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Sunny Balwani’s Theranos trial delayed after possible Covid exposure

Ex-executive faces same charges as his former romantic and business partner in Silicon Valley scandal

The Guardian - US

Social media bosses must hand over algorithm data or face up to two years in jail

Online Safety Bill will compel tech chiefs to ‘expose those algorithms’, says Nadine Dorries

The Independent UK

Tesla Axed Former Autopilot Employee - Read Why

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) terminated a former Autopilot employee who shared video reviews of the company's Full Self Driving Beta system, CNBC reports. John Bernal had shared candid video reviews on his Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) YouTube channel, AI Addict, showing how the company's FSD Beta system worked in different locations around Silicon Valley. Before…

Benzinga

Nadine Dorries says Silicon Valley bosses decide who gets ‘cancelled’

Culture secretary wants to stop US tech giants being ‘supreme arbiters of online speech’

The Independent UK

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Nadine Dorries lambasts Silicon Valley ahead of new online abuse laws

As the UK government prepares legislation, culture secretary criticises tech leaders who “decide who is silenced or cancelled”

The Guardian - UK

Twitter Names New Leaders For Consumer Division

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) named new leaders in its consumer division, Bluebird, to develop new features and services. Jay Sullivan, who led product for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Facebook's AI Assistant, and led the privacy and safety product teams on Messenger and Instagram Direct, joined Twitter late last year as the new head of product in…

Benzinga

Meta Axes Google Veteran Heading Insta For Kids; Project Remains Halted

Meta Platforms Inc's (NASDAQ:FB) VP of youth Pavni Diwanji departed as part of a restructuring, the Wall Street Journal reports. Diwanji supervised Instagram's development of a controversial product for children. Diwanji previously served as a VP at Alphabet Inc's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, where she led YouTube kids and other family-oriented projects. Adam Mosseri, head…

Benzinga

Facebook Libra: the inside story of how the company’s cryptocurrency dream died

It had the blue-chip partners, the tech and the right players. None of which could save it

Financial Times

Sunny Balwani trial starts two months after Elizabeth Holmes’s guilty verdict

Businessman who served as Theranos’s co-president accused of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors

The Guardian - US

Twitter Appoints This Silicon Valley Prodigy To Compete With TikTok

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) appointed Michael Sayman to help court younger users as it looks to compete against ByteDance Ltd's TikTok, the Washington Post reports. Sayman is known as Silicon Valley's product-building prodigy for youth. At Twitter, Sayman will be working on "0-1," a new group focused on building experimental features within the company.…

Benzinga

Google and Twitter reopenings launch grand experiment on the future of Silicon Valley work

A grand Silicon Valley experiment in how and where work will be done in a post-pandemic world has just gotten underway, with technology giants Google and Twitter this week announcing sharply different office reopening plans as other local firms wrestle with how and when to bring workers back to company…

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Twitter to Welcome Workers Back In the Office

Twitter's new chief Parag Agrawal on Thursday said it will reopen offices globally this month but let people work remotely if they wish, as many businesses end closures put in place to fight the spread of Covid-19. Google is also preparing for employees to return to its Silicon Valley offices…

Los Angeles Times

How Amanda Seyfried found her (deep) voice as Elizabeth Holmes in 'The Dropout'

Amanda Seyfried is leaning into her computer's camera for an impromptu tutorial. When it was announced that she would be playing disgraced Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes in a new Hulu limited series, most of the focus was on whether she could convincingly mimic Holmes' famous deep baritone.

Los Angeles Times

Elizabeth Holmes' wild trial almost remade 'The Dropout.' Here's why it was left out

LOS ANGELES — Liz Meriwether, the creator of "New Girl" and "Single Parents," became fascinated with Elizabeth Holmes in 2019, much like the rest of us. She remembers being drawn in by a Vanity Fair piece that detailed the Silicon Valley wunderkind's final months at her biotech company, Theranos, which…

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes's sordid saga goes from trial to TV series

Hulu is presenting a limited TV series about fallen tech star Elizabeth Holmes just two months after she her conviction for duping investors in her blood-testing startup Theranos

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, ‘Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber’ question the motives of a Silicon Valley startup

For Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the mystery of Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick wasn’t about how he lost the reins of the ride-share company. It was about why he put the pedal to the metal at all.

Evening Standard

The Dropout review: Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes is pitiful, never pitiable

The moral of this Silicon Valley morality tale? Don’t run a company based on a cod-philosophical slogan printed on a paperweight

The Guardian - US

Super Pumped review – flashy, high-octane Uber saga runs out of gas

The series on the rise and fall of Uber’s hard-charging, grandiose CEO Travis Kalanick, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, gets too high on its own supply

The Guardian - UK

Bossing it: why the women of big tech are taking over the small screen

The Tech Bro has become Hollywood’s go-to villain. Now, TV is finally grappling with Silicon Valley’s complex female entrepreneurs

The Guardian - UK

If they could turn back time: how tech billionaires are trying to reverse the ageing process

Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel are pouring huge sums into startups aiming to keep us all young – or even cheat death. And the science isn’t as far-fetched as you might think

Tribune News Service

Silicon Valley job market bounces back strongly, inflation soars: report

SAN JOSE — The tech boom enabled Silicon Valley’s job market to rebound strongly in 2021 and banish much of the coronavirus job losses — but the region last year suffered sharply rising inflation, a new report has found.

Benzinga

Intel's Mobileye Targets US Autonomous Electric Shuttles From 2024

Intel Corp's (NASDAQ:INTC) Mobileye unit looks to build and deploy self-driving electric shuttles with its partners in the U.S. in 2024. Mobileye, Benteler EV Systems, and Beep will launch the on-demand driverless shuttles, which will feature 12 to 14 seats and no steering wheel or pedal, Reuters reports. They will operate the vehicles in…

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