10 things in tech you need to know today, November 13

YouTube has argued a video like “Despacito” might be
illegal to show in the EU if the bloc introduces new copyright
legislation.
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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.

1. 
   The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon will probably pick
   New York City and Northern Virginia for its next two major
   offices. An announcement is expected on Tuesday.
2. 
   Apple’s stock price was crushed on Monday after analyst reports
   suggested iPhone unit sales will drop year over year — just as
   the firm stops making those numbers public. The
   driver of the projected sales slump is that Apple’s new $749
   phone, the lower-end iPhone XR, might not be the hot seller
   that Apple had hoped.
3. 
   Californian analytics firm Palantir Technologies is looking to
   reach profitability in 2019 and eyeing a potential IPO in
   2020. But the company needs to cut costs in the
   meantime and is reportedly trying to curb “Palantir Entitlement
   Syndrome” where staff are accustomed to next-level corporate
   extravagance, like 13-course tasting-menu lunches.
4. 
   Samsung’s foldable phone might arrive in March for a whopping
   $1,770. South Korea’s Yonhap news
   reported that the name of the phone would be “Galaxy F.”
5. 
   YouTube is pushing back against a new EU copyright law, which
   it says will massively restrict how many videos Europeans can
   watch. CEO Susan Wojcicki took aim at the EU
   draft directive’s article 13, which would force online
   platforms to censor content that breaches copyright.
6. 
   Facebook is to allow French regulators to keep an eye on its
   content moderation processes. In a deal struck
   with the Macron government, regulators will have unprecedented
   access to Facebook’s systems.
7. 
   Snapchat’s parent company has lost its second top exec in two
   months, as its head of original content departs.
   Nick Bell, VP of content, is leaving the company after nearly
   five years of building media partnerships and developing
   original content for the mobile platform.

8. 
   A Lime founding executive has insisted the firm has the safest
   product — just as it recalls thousands of
   scooters. Lime has issued two product recalls in
   the last month after people reported handlebars falling off and
   the vehicles catching light.
9. 
   Students in Brooklyn protested their school’s use of a
   Zuckerberg-backed online curriculum designed by Facebook
   engineers. Schools across the nation have
   implemented this free web-based program, which was designed
   with the help of Facebook engineers and funded by CEO Mark
   Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.
10. 
    The US government detected as early as 2013 that Facebook’s
    approved partners could potentially misuse millions of people’s
    data. Specifically, the government’s privacy
    watchdog determined that Facebook didn’t police its hardware
    partners closely enough.

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