Wed. 11/07 - Why Robocalls Have Taken Over Your Phone - a podcast by Ride Home Media

Silicon Valley’s special election day vote, why robocalls have taken over your phone, Jeff Bezos’ clever HQ2 bonus, making 911 calls better and why Jake Tapper is a digital media pioneer.

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San Francisco has passed a first-of-its-kind tax on big businesses — like Square and Stripe — to help the homeless (Recode)
Scoop: AT&T to cut off some customers' service in piracy crackdown (Axios)
Why robocalls have taken over your phone (The Verge)
Amazon gained a huge perk from its HQ2 contest that's worth far more than any tax break (Business Insider)
Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk (The Associated Press)
RapidSOS, an emergency response data provider, raises $30M as it grows from 10K users to 250M (TechCrunch)
Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results (NiemanLab)

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