10 things in tech you need to know today, November 27

Tim
Cook and Donald Trump.
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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this
Tuesday.

1. 
   President Trump threatened to place tariffs on the iPhone and
   Apple stock is getting crushed. Trump said in an
   interview with The Wall Street Journal that he could put a 10%
   tariff on iPhones and Chinese electronic goods.
2. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
   could be humbled by a creepy bikini app. Sensitive
   Facebook documents, from a lawsuit involving an app called
   Pikinis, have made their way into the hands of British
   lawmakers ahead of a hearing on Tuesday. They could shed light
   on Facebook’s privacy policy.
3. 
   Google has quietly joined a growing list of companies asking
   Senator Hyde-Smith for a refund on their campaign donations
   following her “public hanging” remark. Google has
   not publicly requested that its $5,000 donation be returned but
   quietly sent an email to the campaign asking for a refund on
   November 21, according to Popular Information.
4. 
   WhatsApp’s chief business officer is the latest exec to leave
   Facebook. Neeraj Arora is quitting, and his
   departure follows ugly clashes between WhatsApp’s cofounders
   and Facebook leadership.
5. 
   Jack Ma, creator of e-commerce giant Alibaba and China’s
   richest man alive, has been outed as a member of the Communist
   Party. On Monday, state-run People’s Daily wrote
   that the Communist Party would be honoring 100 people,
   including Ma and two other internet-tech moguls, for their
   contributions to China’s economy.
6. 
   Elon Musk says people need to work around 80 hours per week to
   change the world. “There are way easier places to
   work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week,”
   Musk tweeted.
7. 
   The biggest Nintendo game of 2018 “Super Smash Bros. Ultimate”
   leaked to pirates prior to release. The fifth
   major entry in the “Super Smash Bros.” fighting game series is
   scheduled to launch on 7 December.
8. 
   Airbnb has poached an Amazon executive as its new CFO, as the
   $31 billion startup preps for an IPO. Dave
   Stephenson joined Airbnb after 17 years at Amazon and will be
   replacing Laurence Tosi, who left the CFO role in February
   after reportedly disagreeing with CEO Brian Chesky over the
   future of the company.
9. 
   Uber employees say the company’s autonomous driving unit used a
   strange term to describe people and animals.
   Employees in Uber’s self-driving unit referred to a human or
   animal as “a squishy thing,” sources told Business Insider.
10. 
    More than 500,000 people downloaded games on the Google Play
    Store that were infected with malware. Google has
    removed 13 games from its Play Store for containing malware,
    all of which were driving simulators.

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