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Trump meets with tech leaders. Yahoo reveals a new hack of 1 billion accounts. Google's self-driving division is now a new Alphabet company called Waymo. Google Assistant will add Actions on Google. Android Things, Google's IoT platform, gets a developer preview. Is Magic Leap a hoax?

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• As Trumplethinskin lets down his hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for climbing the Tower in silence
• Jack Dorsey, who created Donald Trump’s beloved Twitter, has not been invited to the tech summit. Sad!
• Here's the politico story about why Jack wasn't invited: an emoji
• Look who's at the table
• Get a load of the expressions on these faces
• Who sat where at the table
• Tim Cook photo at Trump meeting
• Yahoo discloses hack of 1 billion accounts
• Your Google Assistant is about to get smarter thanks to Actions on Google
• Google aqui-hires wearables startup Cronologics, makers of Alexa-powered CoWatch, to improve Android Wear
• Google debuts Android Things, a platform for building IoT devices with Google services and Android APIs, available today
• Google’s self-driving arm is spinning out of X and will be called Waymo
• Sources: Alphabet plans ride-sharing service with Fiat Chrysler, will deploy semi-autonomous version of the Chrysler Pacifica
• Uber’s launching self-driving cars for the San Francisco public today
• Google Employee Gifts: Charity, Not Gadgets
• Sources: Google has ramped up hiring of Republican lobbying firms and in-house lobbyists
• When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?
• So Uber’s Self-Driving Car Ran a Red Light in San Francisco
• John Markoff Retires From The New York Times
• Magic Leap is actually way behind, like we always suspected it was
• Razzle Dazzle Unicorn: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure
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