10 things in tech you need to know today, September 11

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.

1.
A lengthy New Yorker profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
details how deeply he is thinking about issues such as monopoly
and competition, privacy, and combating
misinformation. Zuckerberg has become extremely
careful about what he says publicly and, according to the
profile, is trying to wrap his head around some of humanity’s
deepest and most contentious issues.

2.
Snap’s chief strategy officer, Imran Khan, is to leave the
company. Insiders noted that Khan didn’t have much
background in media or advertising, though he was integral to
taking it public.

3.
Apple may name its new iPhones ‘Xs,’ ‘Xs Max,’ and ‘Xr’,
according to Bloomberg
. The iPhone Xs Max is
expected to have a jumbo 6.5-inch screen, and Apple is expected
to launch the new phones on Wednesday.

4.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed on Friday that the company is about
to have an “amazing” quarter, but frontline employees seem to be
divided on whether that’s true. One employee
dismissed Musk’s prediction that production had doubled as
“laughable”, but another said he and his colleagues were
generally optimistic.

5.
Apple’s stock price took a hit on Monday after President Trump
threatened new tariffs against China. Apple
warned that the proposed tariffs could result in a price raise
for Apple Watch and AirPods.

6.
India’s “Aadhar” digital identity system is facing major security
issues once more, after a Huffington Post investigation found a
software patch that could generate random Aadhar
numbers. According to the report, the patch is in
widespread use.

7.
The founder of Twitch, Justin Kan, has raised $65 million for his
legal startup Atrium. Twitch sold to Amazon for $1
billion, and Kan is hoping to repeat his success with Atrium,
which builds software tools for law firms.

8.
British flying car startup Vertical Aerospace conducted a test
flight of its electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle this
summer, and plans to launch an intercity flying taxi service by
2022. The 28-person startup is competing with the
likes of Kitty Hawk, Uber, and Rolls-Royce in building flying
taxis.

9. A
new Pixelbook laptop from Google may have leaked in an online ad,
which shows a flexible 2-in-1 laptop that looks similar to last
year’s Pixelbook, but with slimmer
edges. Google is expected to announce the
Pixelbook 2, along with other new hardware products like the
Pixel 3, at an event on October 9.

10. Google
Cloud chief Diane Greene announced in a blog post that Dr.
Fei-Fei Li will return to her professorship at Stanford and
Google Cloud AI’s new leader will be Dr. Andrew Moore, of
Carnegie Mellon University. Greene said in her
blog post that Li will become an AI and machine learning advisor
to Google.

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