Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.
- $4. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said in a report that Apple is moving to a scissor switch keyboard, which will roll out with the 2019 MacBook Air.
- $4. A judge wrote that Amazon's business model "enables third-party vendors to conceal themselves from the customer."
- $4. The books were flagged to Amazon three months ago by activist Rojo Alan, who himself experienced so-called "gay conversion therapy" as a child.
- $4. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. DerpTrolling, took down Sony, Microsoft, and Valve's networks with DDoS attacks.
- $4. The man's motives for pouring water over Li are still unknown.
- $4. Bloomberg attributes the drop to decreased demand for chips and smartphones, along with trade tensions.
- $4. If the bill passes, companies could face fines of over a million dollars for failing to remove hate speech.
- $4. According to the report from Cambridge University researchers, maintaining the Bitcoin network eats up 0.25% of global energy consumption.
- $4. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chair Rod Sims said the company misled customers over how well the phone would survive both ocean and swimming pool water.
- $4 Jeff Bezos incorporated Amazon on July 5, 1994.
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