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Fox News may be ready to cut ties with Bill O’Reilly. Support from James and Lachlan Murdoch appears to be waning, and multiple reports say Fox News is negotiating an exit for its star anchor. O’Reilly’s lawyer says his client has been “subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination that is unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America.” [Brian Stelter / CNN]
In the largest e-commerce acquisition ever, PetSmart is acquiring Chewy.com for $3.35 billion. Meanwhile, Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing system, which would help the e-commerce giant develop its own apparel lines. [Jason Del Rey / Recode]
In an interview with Recode, Mark Zuckerberg talked in unusual detail about Facebook’s augmented-reality ambitions, noting that Facebook is building “AR hardware” — perhaps software-powered glasses. Zuckerberg also gave the keynote at the annual F8 developer conference — here are all the new products announced on Day One. [Kurt Wagner / Recode]
In his F8 keynote, Zuckerberg also addressed the controversy over videos of a shooting murder that were viewed by more than a thousand people, saying Facebook has “a lot more to do here,” not only to filter out violent videos but to prevent violence altogether. The New Yorker wonders why Zuckerberg and his team ever believed they could prevent dark souls from hijacking Facebook Live. [Steve Coll / The New Yorker]
Walt Mossberg weighs in on Samsung’s much-anticipated flagship phone, the $750 Samsung Galaxy S8, which he calls “a visual and tactile triumph” — with some trade-offs. [Walt Mossberg / Recode]
Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton explains how technology can reshape American politics on the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher. Hilton — former adviser to British Prime Minister David Cameron and husband of Rachel Whetstone, Uber’s former director of communications — wants to make it easier for underrepresented outsiders to run for office. [Eric Johnson / Recode]
Top stories from Recode
Google’s cloud clients now have full access to its speech recognition software.
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The state of the H-1B program, which Donald Trump is now reviewing, in five charts.
Changes are coming soon.
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Networks of drones, humanoids, wheeled robots and stationary smart cameras may one day keep watch.
Tumblr is launching a video chat app that’s not about blogging.
With Cabana, the blogging company is “exploring a new direction,” according to CEO David Karp.
Workplace culture should be measured, just like sales or ROI.
Uber’s issues should have leadership everywhere asking, “How healthy is our culture?”
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Joan Crawford, OG (Original GOOP)
Ryan Murphy’s latest miniseries, “Feud: Bette and Joan,” wraps up this Sunday on FX, and if you like that, you’ll be fatally attracted to Joan Crawford's typically larger-than-life narration of her own 1971 memoir/lifestyle guide, “My Way of Life,” streaming in four approximately 30-minute segments on YouTube. [MrRicohv / YouTube]
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
