• France fines Google €50M for GDPR violations, Google appeals.
• Amazon issues workers vests to keep robots from harming them.
• Millions of mortgage docs leak online.
• Viacom buys Pluto TV for $340M.
• Microsoft Edge mobile browser alerts users to fake news.
• Google buys Fossil smartwatch tech.
• Google powers US data centers with 1.6 million solar panels.
• Facebook wants to attract teens to its new LOL meme hub.
• OPEN Government Data Act becomes law.
• China confirms that scientist He Jiankui used CRISPR to gene-edit babies.
• Chinese app encourages users to shame debtors near them.
• How good are you at detecting phishing emails? Try this quiz!

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