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LOS ANGELES — Seven months ahead of its planned launch, Quibi, the short-form video platform from the film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, experienced some backstage drama on Wednesday with the departure of one of its top executives, Janice Min. Ms. Min, the former co-president and chief creative officer of The Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, joined Quibi […]

Public health officials in Oregon said Wednesday that a person who recently died of a severe respiratory illness had used an electronic cigarette containing marijuana oil from a legal dispensary, the second death linked to vaping nationwide and the first tied to a vaping product bought at a pot shop. Officials have not determined what

SAN FRANCISCO — The reality of being a public company is setting in for what were once some of Silicon Valley’s hottest start-ups. The latest to get a taste of that: Slack. In its first earnings report since going public in June, Slack posted a bigger loss than a year ago and a 58 percent

A federal judge has rejected a government recommendation that he impose a $10 million bail bond on a former Google engineer who is accused of stealing self-driving car technology before joining Uber’s effort to build robotic taxis. The preliminary ruling issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Nathanael Cousins means Anthony Levandowski remains free on the

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft met with government officials in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss and coordinate on how best to help secure the 2020 American presidential election, according to a person briefed on the event. The daylong meeting, held at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., included security teams from

YouTube is changing what it shows kids. The new business practices, along with $170 million in fines , settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and New York state that YouTube owner Google violated children’s online privacy by collecting personal data without parents’ permission. Some of the new responsibilities will be on video creators themselves,

A second person has died from a severe lung illness after vaping, according to a lead investigator on the case in Oregon. The investigator said that the person had apparently become sick after vaping T.H.C. from a product purchased from a recreational marijuana shop in the state. The investigator, Dr. Ann Thomas, a pediatrician and

Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei accused U.S. authorities on Wednesday of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to gather information on the company. Huawei, which faces mounting American pressure including possible loss of access to U.S. technology over accusations the company is a security risk, said in

A government investigation has found that a design flaw in Tesla’s Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system and driver inattention combined to cause a Model S electric car to slam into a firetruck parked along a California freeway. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the driver was overly reliant on the system and that Autopilot’s design

The dangers of using hands-free phones while driving have been highlighted by a simulator. Since the ban on using handheld phones whilst driving in 2003, hands-free has become more widely used, so BBC Inside Out South presenter Jon Cuthill took part in an experiment to test whether his hazard perception was affected by talking on