When TikTok first came out, one of its biggest features was duets. These gave you the ability to record your own video alongside someone else's. 

In the early days, this meant that you could sing a duet with Idina Menzel or Michael Buble. Now, people have found all sorts of ways to utilize the duet feature.

You can use it to react to people, to create comedic dialogues with your friends, or to show two different perspectives of the same event. You can even duet with yourself. The possibilities are limited only to what you can imagine.

If you want to duet with someone on TikTok — including yourself — that person has to have duets enabled in the privacy section of their profile. If they don't, when you try to make a duet with one of their videos, you'll get a notification telling you that you can't.

Otherwise, though, making a Duet video on TikTok is very simple — here's how to do it, using the app for iPhone and Android devices.

How to duet on TikTok

1. Open TikTok and find the video you want to duet with.

2. At the bottom of the sidebar menu on the right, tap the sharing button — it looks like an arrow pointing to the right.

Tap the share button on the video you want to duet with. Melanie Weir/Business Insider

3. At the bottom of the "Share to" menu that pops up, tap "Duet." If it's grayed out, that person has disabled Duets on their account.

Select the "Duet" option. If it's grayed out, you can't duet with this user. Melanie Weir/Business Insider

4. Tap the red button at the bottom of the screen to start recording your video. Yours will appear on the left — the other person's will appear on the right.

Tap the red button to begin recording your half. Melanie Weir/Business Insider

5. When you're finished, tap the check mark to the right of the recording symbol.

6. Check your duet to make sure it's to your liking, then add any stickers or effects you may want and post it like you would with any other TikTok video.

Original author: Melanie Weir

You can trim a TikTok video's length in two ways, depending on whether you're shooting a new video or uploading a premade one.If you want to trim a TikTok video that you've just shot, you can use the "Adjust clips" feature.When you upload a video to TikTok from your phone, you'll be required to trim it before you finish.TikTok videos can't be longer than 60 seconds, or shorter than one second. Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories.

If brevity is the soul of wit, then TikTok is pretty witty. 

One of TikTok's defining features is its length limits. Videos shared on TikTok can be anywhere from one second to one minute long, and the app gives users precise control over how long their clips are.

However, these controls aren't always the easiest to use or understand.

Whether you just shot a video in the TikTok app on your iPhone or Android, or you want to upload a video from your phone's library, here's how to trim it to the perfect length.

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How to trim a TikTok video you just shot 

1. Shoot your video in TikTok, then after stopping the recording, tap the red checkmark icon.

2. Tap the word and icon for "Adjust clips" near the top-right of the screen.

Tap the "Adjust clips" option. Steven John/Business Insider

3. A bar will appear at the bottom of the screen, containing your clip. Use the red sliders on either side to change the start and end time of the clip, then tap "Save" in the top-right.

You can adjust the clip using these sliders. Steven John/Business Insider

4. Tap "Next," then select your posting options and hit "Post" or "Drafts" to save the file.

How to trim a TikTok video from your phone library 

1. Open the TikTok app and tap the plus icon in the bottom-center of the screen.

2. Tap "Upload" in the bottom-right, find and tap the video you want to add from your phone, and then tap "Next."

You'll need to grant TikTok permission to access your photo library. Steven John/Business Insider

3. Use the red sliders at the bottom of the screen to change the start and end time of the clip, then hit "Next."

Even after you trim your clip, the original version will remain in your photo library. Steven John/Business Insider

4. Add any effects or music you want, then post or save the video to your drafts.

 

Original author: Steven John

The secretive data analytics firm Palantir is preparing to file an S-1 ahead of a potential September IPO, Business Insider has learned.The company is working with banks to prepare a tender offer to clean up its cap table, according to Bloomberg. Earlier this week, Palantir lowered the strike price for employees to buy their options in the company, sources told Business Insider. Palantir declined to comment. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Secretive data analytics firm Palantir is preparing to file an S-1 with plans to go public in September, according to a person familiar with the company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the matter.

The timing could shift pending market conditions. 

The IPO prep, first reported by Bloomberg, has been long anticipated at the 17-year-old company whose earliest backers include Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the US intelligence and defense communities. 

A spokeswoman for Palantir declined to comment.

It's unclear which banks are working on the S-1. The company is still debating whether to have a normal public offering or to go public through a direct listing, according to Reuters.

Palantir is also working with bankers on a tender offer for private shareholders which would clean up its cap table, according to Bloomberg.

Palantir's turn to the public market comes five years after its last funding round, which valued the company at $20 billion. The company, which sells customized data analytics tools to corporations and the government, has struggled to live up to that valuation in recent years, as shares of the company flooded the secondary markets at a major discount.

Earlier this week, Palantir adjusted its strike price for employees down from $6.03 to $4.72 per share to lower the cost for employees to buy the options that are part of their compensation, Business Insider reported.

Earlier this year, secondary shares of the company regularly sold at a valuation between $8 billion and $12 billion, two investors told Business Insider in February. Around the same time, the secondary-share marketplace EquityZen offered Palantir shares for just $4.85, for an implied valuation of $8.9 billion, according to an offering viewed by Business Insider.

Original author: Becky Peterson

Outlook, like all of the programs in Microsoft Office's productivity suite, can display a photo on your user profile. This one profile picture will appear in every Office program that displays your profile. 

By default, it simply shows your initials, but you can change it to display any photo you like. 

Note, however, that this only applies to Outlook on Windows computers. The Mac version of Outlook doesn't show your profile picture anywhere, and doesn't let you change it.

Here's how to add a profile picture to Microsoft Outlook.

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Palantir plans to file to go public in the coming weeks, Bloomberg's Katie Roof and Lizette Chapman reported. Activists have long been protesting the $20 billion big data company Palantir for its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Palantir's software has been used to gather, store, and search for data on undocumented immigrants, and reportedly played a role in workplace raids.Palantir has also been notoriously secretive due to its work with government, policing, and military organizations like the Department of Defense, the Army, the Marine Corps, the FBI, and the CIA.Because Palantir's software runs on Amazon's cloud, activists have also protested Amazon Web Services.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The big data company Palantir plans to file to go public in the coming weeks, Bloomberg's Katie Roof and Lizette Chapman reported. 

This company, first launched in 2004, has been secretive for most of its existence. Last year, there were rumors that it would go public. Now, Bloomberg reports that Palantir could start trading as early as this fall. The company has yet to respond to a request for comment.

Palantir's earliest claim to fame is that it was cofounded by Facebook board member and VC Peter Thiel, one of President Donald Trump's biggest backers in Silicon Valley.

Over the years, Palantir grew into one of the most valuable startups in the country, with a $2.75 billion in venture capital raised and a $20 billion valuation — despite the fact that it operates under a veil of secrecy.

It works closely with the US government and law enforcement agencies, counting the FBI, CIA, and Department of Defense as customers, among other agencies (more on that in a moment). Indeed, Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently blasted other tech companies for what he perceives as a reluctance to work on defense-related projects. 

Palantir has boasted about the good that it does, especially as pertaining to its work with government agencies: Previously, CEO Alex Karp has said that he hears about a foiled terrorist attack in Europe almost every week. 

However, Palantir has also found itself scrutinized for its dealings with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the US agency responsible for enforcing President Donald Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants in the country. WNYC reported that ICE agents use the company's apps in the field during workplace raids.

That controversy has touched Amazon as well, as Palantir relies on Amazon's cloud to run its big data software. Already, people within and outside of Amazon have protested its ties to Palantir.

Now, activist organizations are protesting Palantir for working with ICE by providing the software that makes many of its core operations possible. For example, they held protests at Palantir's Palo Alto offices to protest the company's contracts with ICE. 

At the same time, Palantir's creators are going on the offensive, criticizing tech companies that don't work with the US government and proclaiming Palantir's patriotic bona fides. Joe Lonsdale, a VC who cofounded Palantir but is no longer involved in company's operations, said last year that Palantir is "probably the most patriotic company" in Silicon Valley.

Here's what to know about this richly valued and controversial data mining company.

What is Palantir?

Based in Palo Alto, California, Palantir was founded in 2003 by a group of PayPal alumni and Stanford computer scientists, including CEO Alex Karp. 

Palantir creates software to manage, analyze, and secure data. Its name comes from a mystical, spherical object in the "Lord of the Rings" book that allows its owner to "see from afar." In total, the company has raised $2.75 billion in venture capital.

As for Karp, he is a self-described socialist, even though Palantir works with large corporations and government agencies to provide big data tools.

The company was born out of Thiel's experience working at PayPal, where credit card fraud cost the company millions each month. To solve the problem, PayPal built an internal security application that helped employees analyze suspicious transactions.

Palantir takes a similar approach by finding patterns in complicated data. For example, law enforcement agencies can use it to search for links in phone records, photos, vehicle information, criminal history, biometrics, credit card transactions, addresses, and police reports.

VICE reported Palantir's software allows law enforcement to enter a license plate number and quickly get an itinerary of the routes and places the vehicle has travelled. Police can also use it to map out family and business relationships.

And Palantir's technology has been used in New Orleans for predictive policing, The Verge reported — a practice that has been shown to increase surveillance and arrests in communities of color.  Palantir has been involved in various lawsuits in the past few years. For example, in 2017, Palantir settled a lawsuit from the Department of Labor saying that its hiring practices discriminated against Asians. 

In 2016, Oracle reportedly considered buying Palantir. Previously, Palantir was reportedly in talks with Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley about an IPO in the second half of 2019. 

As a privately held company, Palantir's valuation is believed to be anywhere from $11 billion to $41 billion, depending on who is doing the estimates. PitchBook pegs its valuation at $20 billion.

Why is Palantir so secretive?

Palantir is notoriously tight-lipped. That's because many of its customer agreements include non-disclosure clauses due to the nature of their work. As a result, Palantir tends to keep a low profile, sharing almost no information about how its software is used or its own finances. 

Palantir reportedly expects to generate $1 billion in revenue this year and to break even for the first time in its 16-year history.

While it counts commercial businesses and nonprofits as customers, it also works with many government organizations, banks, and legal research firms. Some customers include Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase, the Department of Defense, Merck, Airbus, the FBI, and the CIA.

On its website, it says that people work with Palantir to uncover human trafficking rings, analyze finances, respond to natural disasters, track disease outbreaks, combat cyberattacks, prevent terrorist attacks, and more. 

Working with government agencies is a core part of Palantir's business. For the first several years, Palantir only sold its data analysis products to US government agencies. Palantir works with various military organizations and combat missions to gather information on enemy activity, track criminals, identify fraud, plan logistics, and more.  

For example, its software has been used by the Marine Corps to gather intelligence, and it's building software for the US Army to analyze terrain, movement, and weather information in remote areas. It's even been rumored to have been used to track down Osama Bin Laden, although Palantir did not comment directly on it. 

Palantir has also been selective about the customers it works with. For example, Karp previously told Fortune that Palantir turned down a partnership with a tobacco company "for fear the company would harness the data to pinpoint vulnerable communities to sell cigarettes to."

What is Palantir doing with ICE?

According to USAspending.gov, Palantir has received over $170 million in contracts with ICE, including active contracts worth about $94 million. Palantir provides investigative case management software to ICE to gather, store, and search troves of data on undocumented immigrants' employment information, phone records, immigration history, and more.

Palantir employees had reportedly "begged" to end the ICE deal, but Karp said the data is being used for drug enforcement, not separating families. Palantir also said ICE uses its technology for investigating criminal activity like human trafficking, child exploitation, and counter-terrorism. However, Mijente reported that ICE agents used Palantir's software to build profiles of undocumented children and family members that could be used for prosecution and arrest.

WNYC also reported that ICE agents used a Palantir program called FALCON Mobile to plan workplace raids earlier this year. This app reportedly allowed them to search through law enforcement databases with information on people's people's immigration histories, family relationships, and past border crossings. 

Last year, two days after an ICE reportedly sent an email notifying staff to use the FALCON app, ICE raided nearly 100 7-Elevens across the country.

Why are people protesting Amazon?

All this has also sparked protests against Amazon, since Palantir relies on Amazon's cloud to run its software. Previously at the Burning Man festival, a national group for Latinx and Chicanx organizing called Mijente brought a giant cage to protest Amazon and Palantir's involvement with ICE.

In 2018, an anonymous Amazon employee wrote a Medium blog post that said over 450 Amazon employees wrote to CEO Jeff Bezos demanding it to stop working with Palantir. Employees also confronted Bezos at an all-hands about its connection to ICE.

Last year, Amazon employees circulated another internal letter demanding that Amazon stop working with Palantir and take a stand against ICE.

Read more: Read the internal letter sent by a group of Amazon employees asking the company to take a stand against ICE 

Later that week, at an Amazon Web Services conference, activists interrupted the keynote in protest of Amazon's ties to Palantir and ICE.

"As we've said many times and continue to believe strongly, companies and government organizations need to use existing and new technology responsibly and lawfully. There is clearly a need for more clarity from governments on what is acceptable use of AI and ramifications for its misuse, and we've provided a proposed legislative framework for this. We remain eager for the government to provide this additional clarity and legislation, and will continue to offer our ideas and specific suggestions," an AWS spokesperson said in a statement at the time.

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DoorDash is preparing to raise several hundred million dollars in new equity financing, The Wall Street Journal reported.The new financing would peg the company's valuation at $15 billion, up from $13 billion in November.The financing would push DoorDash's cash stockpile well above $1 billion — and would presumably push back its planned initial public offering.The company has seen a surge in sales and market share as a result of the coronavirus crisis.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

DoorDash is set to cash in from the coronavirus-spurred spike in its business.

The food delivery service is finalizing plans to sell several hundred million dollars worth of private company shares to mutual fund companies T. Rowe Price and Fidelity as well as other investors, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Assuming the deal goes through, the new funding round would raise the company's valuation to $15 billion. That's up from the $13 billion value investors gave it in November.

A DoorDash representative declined comment on the report.

The new financing would seem to further postpone the company's planned initial public offering. DoorDash confidentially filed its IPO paperwork in February, but in early March, CEO Tony Xu indicated the company was in no hurry to go public.

Although it has consistently lost money in recent years — including an estimated $450 million loss on $1 billion in sales last year — Door Dash had $1 billion in cash on hand prior to the new funding, The Information said in a separate report. Meanwhile, the company expects to break even in the second quarter of this year, excluding certain costs, The Journal reported.

DoorDash and other food delivery services saw a surge in sales after state governments put in place lockdown orders to try to control the COVID-19 pandemic. With people largely prohibited from dining at restaurants, many ordered food online for delivery instead. In April, food delivery sales nearly doubled from the year earlier, according to market research firm Second Measure.

But DoorDash in particular saw gains. As of April, it controlled 45% of the food delivery market, up from 35% in November, Second Measure reported.

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Going back and forth between your work and email to make sure you're not missing any urgent messages can be tedious, not to mention disruptive. 

Microsoft Outlook takes away this stress through its desktop notification feature. Desktop notifications allow users to receive pop-up updates on their desktop when a new message arrives in their Outlook inbox, even if they don't have the email client open at the time.

Desktop notifications can be helpful if you want to stay abreast of your messages, but don't want to check your inbox every couple of minutes. But even the updates can get distracting, so here's how to toggle off desktop notifications in Outlook.

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How to turn off Outlook notifications

1. With your Outlook desktop inbox open, click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of your screen.

2. Choose "View all Outlook settings."

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You can delete multiple emails at once when your Outlook inbox or any other Outlook folder is cluttered.Using the Shift and CTRL keys, you can choose a consecutive series of emails or any set of non-consecutive messages for deletion.Select multiple emails in the Outlook mobile app by tapping and holding a message to enter the app's selection mode.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Unless you practice a time management strategy like Inbox Zero, your Outlook inbox is probably overrun with email. Some may be relevant, but many more are likely obsolete and simply cluttering your view of more urgent messages. 

To help clean up your inbox, the email client offers a way to quickly and efficiently delete multiple emails at once. The process for removing multiple emails is the same no matter what version of Outlook you use but is slightly different depending on whether you're on a desktop or the mobile app. 

Here are several handy tactics for selecting and deleting multiple emails.

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How to delete multiple emails in Outlook on a computer

To delete all the emails in a single folder (such as the inbox): 

1. Click any message to select it. 

2. Then press CTRL + A to select all the messages in the folder. 

3. Press the Delete key to eliminate them.

To delete a range of consecutive messages:

1. Click the first message and then scroll to the last email you want to delete. 

2. Holding Shift, click the final email. 

Original author: Dave Johnson

You can record a Google Meet video call to rewatch or share the meeting with others later.The recording feature is usually only available for G-Suite Enterprise members, but is currently free for all G-Suite members until September 30, 2020.You can only record a Google Meet call if you're its organizer, or if you're in the same organization as the person who created the meeting.Once you're finished, the Google Meet recording will be saved to the organizer's Google Drive.Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories. 

The ability to record Google Meet calls has many advantages. For example, a meeting recording can be shared later for use in training, to rehash the details of a project, or to take notes on what was discussed.

But not everyone can record a Google Meet call. Google Meet recordings can only be made by people within the same organization, by a meeting's organizer, or by a teacher using Google Meet as a classroom.

Additonally, recording is usually restricted to G-Suite Enterprise members. However, Google has recently made this feature available to everyone until September 30, 2020.

With that said, here's how to record a Google Meet video call using any browser on your Mac or PC.

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How to record a Google Meet

1. Start or join a meeting, then click the three dots at the bottom right corner.

2. Click "Record meeting" at the top of the pop-up.

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Quicken Loans, the largest provider of mortgage loans in the US, is planning to go public, CNBC reported Thursday.The company filed its IPO prospectus confidentially but may look to make it public as early as July, according to CNBC.The valuation is still being determined but is estimated to be in the tens of billions, sources told CNBC.Low interest rates on mortgages during the pandemic have sent Americans rushing back to the housing market, a boon for lenders like Quicken.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Home mortgage lender Quicken Loans is planning an initial public offering, CNBC reported on Thursday.

Quicken, which is the largest residential mortgage provider in the US by volume, filed its IPO prospectus confidentially but could make the filings public as early as next month, according to CNBC.

Quicken is working with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan on the deal, and while the target valuation is still being finalized, it could be in the tens of billions of dollars, which would potentially mean a multibillion-dollar IPO, sources told CNBC.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Rocket Mortgage, a division of Quicken Loans, said:

"As the nation's largest mortgage lender, Rocket Mortgage is continuously looking for new ways to invest in and grow our business, while also contributing in significant ways to our home communities.

"Given our continued growth, market leadership and strong financial performance, we are frequent targets of rumor and speculation.  If, and when, there is news to report, it will come directly from us."

Amid the vast economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, interest rates have plummeted, sending homebuyers flocking back to the housing market and encouraging current homeowners to refinance their mortgages.

Mortgage applications to purchase a home increased 5% last week and were 13% higher than a year ago, according to a report from Mortgage Bankers Association. Meanwhile, the MBA's refinance index jumped 11% on the week and is 80% higher than a year ago in as the index climbed for the first time in nearly two months.

That's been a boon for Quicken, whose CEO, Jay Farner, told CNBC in April: "March was the biggest closing month in our company's history — nearly $21 billion in mortgages closed."

 

Original author: Tyler Sonnemaker

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Sony Sony will launch the PlayStation 5 during the 2020 holiday season with a standard model and a digital edition with no disc drive.Sony showed off the PlayStation 5's look for the first time and announced the initial lineup of PlayStation 5 games during an hourlong livestream event on June 11.Though pricing and preorder details haven't been revealed yet, we'll update this post as soon as they become available.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Sony's PlayStation 5 has been unveiled following an hourlong livestream. Sony still hasn't announced the price or release date of the PS5, but the console will launch during the 2020 holiday season. 

Sony detailed the PlayStation 5's look for the first time during the event, showing off the PS5's DualSense controller and announcing the initial lineup of PlayStation 5 games. The stream included trailers for titles like "Spider-Man: Miles Morales," "Gran Turismo 7," "Resident Evil: Village," and "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart."

The PlayStation 4 is the most popular video-game console of its generation, having sold more than 100 million units worldwide since November 2013. The PlayStation 5 will compete with the Xbox Series X, Microsoft's upcoming console, for the affection of gamers throughout the 2020 holiday season.

While new PlayStation and Xbox consoles are just a few months away, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles are selling out amid the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-in-place orders. Reports have indicated that the pandemic could lead Sony to produce fewer PS5 consoles for the initial launch.

Though full details on pricing and availability for the PS5 are still forthcoming, we've detailed everything we know so far about how to buy the console. We'll update this article with more preorder information as it's revealed.

Original author: Kevin Webb

Former top Facebook executive Chris Cox is rejoining the company as chief product officer, a year after leaving.His rejoining means a shake-up at the company's upper ranks, with multiple top executives now reporting to him instead of Mark Zuckerberg.Facebook has faced an employee revolt in recent weeks, and the return of the well-liked executive may help to quell it.Cox has also been openly critical of Donald Trump, and his rehiring may intensify conservative criticisms of the social network.Got a tip about Facebook? Contact this reporter at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or +1 650-636-6268. Anonymity offered.

One of Mark Zuckerberg's key lieutenants is back — only a year after leaving following clashes with the Facebook CEO.

On Thursday, it was announced that Chris Cox is rejoining Facebook as its chief product officer at a pivotal time for the company. A longtime executive at the Silicon Valley social networking giant, Cox departed in March 2019 amid reported clashes with Zuckerberg over the direction of the company and its privacy initiatives.

He now returns as the company attempts to navigate the the maze of an unprecedented pandemic and a looming US election that has seen the company savaged by politicians on both sides of the aisle on its approach to political content.

Facebook also is facing an employee revolt, with dozens of workers speaking out publicly against its decision not to take action against posts by Donald Trump that discussed "shooting" in response to the anti-racism protests sweeping the US.

Cox's return means an immediate shakeup in the highest ranks of the company. A number of high-level executives who previously reported directly to Zuckerberg will now answer to him instead. His team, he wrote in a public Facebook post, will comprise Fidji Simo, the head of the Facebook app; Will Cathcart, who runs WhatsApp; Adam Mosseri, in charge of Instagram; Stan Chudnovsky, Messenger's boss, and Antonio Lucio, Facebook's chief marketing officer.

The well-liked executive's return may help to assuage some of the employee unrest. Multiple employees who have spoken out publicly to criticize Facebook in recent weeks tweeted in support of the news. "OPTIMISM RISING," said one. "Some good signs," added another (while also referencing an expansion of Facebook's chief diversity officer's role and other initiatives discussed by Zuckerberg). 

His popularity with employees prior to his 2019 departure, along with his strongly held beliefs, may encourage employees that the company is going in the right direction.

But it may come at a cost — an intensification of conservative attacks on the company. Cox is outspoken in his politics. At an event in November 2019, he said that "Trump should not be our president," and spent part of his time away from Facebook "building progressive political infrastructure for this election year" (along with playing with his reggae band).

This stridency will make him appealing to Facebook employees who fear Facebook is bending its rules for Trump out of fear of offending conservatives. But it may also embolden right-wing critics who claim — without proof — that Facebook and other big tech companies are deliberately biased against conservatives.

"2020 refocused us all, on a public health crisis, an economic crisis, and now a reckoning of racial injustice," Cox wrote in a note to employees that he also shared publicly.

"The world is unsettled, divided. People are struggling when things were already hard. I reached out to Mark awhile ago and I told him I'd be interested to help. I've been following Facebook and I've been encouraged by progress on so many of the big issues facing us. In the past month the world has grown more chaotic and unstable, which has only given me more resolve to help out. Our most important decisions and products are ahead of us."

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Former McAfee CEO Chris Young says that "diversity theater" — currently prevalent in social media statements from tech companies — isn't good enough. "It's not OK to be up in arms with the current civil unrest in our country today and then three months from now ... to put it on the back burner," he says.Young was one of a very small group of Black CEOs of large companies in America, and was a top executive at other large firms, including Intel and AOL before that. Companies need specific metrics and concrete goals for diversifying their workforces, Young says, and "holding people accountable" is important, too. Young says real change will take time: "I can't stress enough that that is going to require a sustained commitment to change."Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The recent protests against systemic racism and police brutality have spurred a wave of corporate statements on racial justice, but Chris Young, the former CEO of security company McAfee, is skeptical. As a tech executive who often found himself the only Black person on upper management teams, he's looking for hard metrics and concrete commitments alongside the platitudes. 

"I would hope tech companies will avoid what I'd call 'diversity theater,' where companies make statements, and you never know if they are followed up on or not," Young said. "It needs to be backed up with action and investment. It's not OK to be up in arms with the current civil unrest in our country today and then three months from now, when other demands arise, to put it on the back burner."

It's "not even close to enough" to simply be posting support for Black Lives Matter on social media: "Where I'm skeptical of organizations is when that's all they do, and then they go back to business without following up," Young said. 

Young, 47, stepped down as the chief executive of McAfee — a $3 billion, 7,000-employee company — in January, though he remains an advisor, and is still on the boards of Snap and American Express. Before McAfee, Young was an executive at Intel, VMware, RSA, and AOL, companies where he was often the only African-American in the upper echelons. Across the Fortune 500, there are only four Black CEOs.

Young says that he learned to adapt to being one of the only Black people in upper management, but that it wasn't always easy. 

"If you're not born into it, and if you haven't grown up in some of the same networks as others, it certainly can be difficult to feel the same level of comfort and social ease with those you work closely with," he said. 

Young says companies need to think about how to help people of color "feel they can be successful" in leadership roles, but that those plans need to be paired with hard metrics and specific goals, such as increasing minority hiring and promotions by a certain percent each year. 

"Metrics are the only way you're going to get people in the company paying attention to goals in a committed way — otherwise you're just sort of hoping it gets better," Young said. "Whenever companies want to transform any element of their business, what do they do? They set targets and assign responsibility. Measurement of diversity in an organization is critical, as is holding people accountable." 

McAfee's workforce is 57% white, 23% Asian, 8% Latinx, 6% Black, and less than half a percent Pacific Islander and Native American, though, last year, 54% of new hires were racial minorities. While many tech companies have started publicly releasing their yearly diversity statistics, they often show little-to-no progress from one year to the next. That's where Young's recommendation for accountability comes in: There should be consequences for failure. 

Young says he is optimistic that change and growth can come from this moment in the nation's civil rights history, as the Black Lives Matter movement is galvanized by the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others. 

"I'm encouraged by the diversity of people that I see protesting and speaking out about these issues." he said. 

Longterm commitment will be necessary to achieve specific goals such as representation of Blacks and other racial minorities in leadership positions, Young says.

"I just encourage everyone who's standing with the Black community now to keep standing with the community. Keep standing on the side of justice and equality. I can't stress enough that that is going to require a sustained commitment to change," Young said. "It's going to be uncomfortable, but it's important." 

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Jim Keller, the renowned chip engineer who joined Intel from Tesla two years ago, has resigned "due to personal reasons," the company said Thursday.Keller, who is also known for his work at AMD and Apple, had led the Intel engineering group that was developing microprocessors.He was one of three outsiders Intel hired recently as it eyed new opportunities beyond its core PC and server market.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Jim Keller, the acclaimed chip engineer Intel hired from Tesla two years ago, has resigned "due to personal reasons," the tech giant said Thursday.

Keller joined Intel in 2018 to lead the engineering group that was developing new microprocessors as part of the company's bid to go beyond its core PC and server business.

Keller, a veteran of Apple and AMD who VentureBeat described as a "rock star chip architect," was one of three outsiders Intel hired in recent years as it's eyed opportunities in new markets. The other two engineers Intel recruited were Murthy Renduchintala, who quit as copresident of Qualcomm in 2015 to become Intel's chief engineering officer, and Raja Koduri, who joined from AMD in 2017 and is now leading Intel's high-performance graphic chips team.

Intel has had to adapt to a changing market. The market for PCs — an area it has dominated for decades — is shrinking. The company is a major player in the market for server chips but is facing stiff competition from its rivals AMD and Nvidia. Under CEO Bob Swan, Intel is eyeing new emerging markets, including high-performance computing, the cloud, autonomous cars, artificial intelligence, graphics, and networking.

When he spoke with Business Insider last year, he described a challenging job that was reaping progress. 

"The company over the last number of years has pivoted to have a lot more market segments, a lot more designs in those market segments," Keller said. "That will generate a lot more chips, a very large amount of IP."

Intel said Keller would stay on for six months to help with the transition of his replacement. The company also announced other changes to its engineering team, including naming Sundari Mitra as head of its intellectual property engineering team.

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In a series of tweets posted Tuesday night, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pledged to work against "systemic racism" and said that "Black lives matter.""The horrifying killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and far too many other Black people — and the protests they sparked — are shining a light on the brutal injustices that Black people experience every day," Gates tweeted.Gates' posts come as polls show that a large majority of Americans support the nationwide protests against racism and police brutality.Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates is the latest figure from corporate America to speak out against systemic racism.

In a series of tweets posted Tuesday evening, the billionaire said that the "horrifying killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and far too many other Black people — and the protests they sparked — are shining a light on the brutal injustices that Black people experience every day."

The nationwide protests sparked by the police killing of Floyd enjoy the support of a large majority of Americans. 

For his part, Gates declared himself "committed to listening and learning more about systemic racism and what I can do with my actions and words to help create a more equal and just future."

"Black lives matter," he added.

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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday.

Microsoft employees are using an internal company message board to share their personal experiences with the ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism, and calling for leadership to take action. The messages only add to pressure from employees for Microsoft to take a bolder stand on the protests, which have been ongoing for nearly two weeks since the death of George Floyd.Apple will soon announce a move to its own ARM-based chips for Mac, replacing chips from Intel, according to Bloomberg. The company is expected to announce the shift at its annual developer conference WWDC, and will make the tech transition for Macs released in 2021.More than 250 Microsoft employees signed a letter asking the company to end police department contracts. The email, published on Medium publication OneZero, asked Nadella and Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene, who has been leading communication on the company's coronavirus response, to cancel the company's contract with the Seattle Police Department and other police departments.Google is gearing up to bring employees back to offices on July 6, but it will "look and feel different" from the office Googlers are used to. In a recent all-hands meeting, Google outlined some of its plans to bring the workforce back, insiders said, including arrival slots, packed lunches, and a ban on perks like office gyms and sleep pods.Airbnb has restarted internal conversations about going public in 2020. Airbnb's CEO recently said the company has seen more bookings — and longer stays — from May 17 and June 3 compared to that time period last year.Several Tesla employees reportedly contracted the coronavirus after Elon Musk opened its factory despite shelter-in-place orders. According to the Washington Post, managers held meetings to inform employees of the cases and that the affected people were told not to come in to work, according to two anonymous employees who spoke to the paper.A senior Facebook AI scientist came out defending the company on Twitter, amid general employee criticism about the way it has recently handled incendiary posts. Yann LeCun, Facebook's former head of AI research and currently the company's chief AI scientist, said on Friday that he remained proud to work at the company and that people had the wrong idea about the firm.Some Tinder users say they've been banned from the app for encouraging others to donate to Black Lives Matter. Users are saying on Twitter their accounts were banned after sending out links to BLM petitions, changing their bios to include messages in support of BLM, and offering to exchange nudes for donations to BLM causes.Amazon will test the majority of its warehouse workers every two weeks for COVID-19 and is setting up diagnostic labs accordingly, according to CNBC. The plans are in line with an earlier announcement from CEO Jeff Bezos, who said the plan was to regularly test workers.Twitter and Square are making Juneteenth a permanent company holiday. The June 19 holiday, which celebrates the emancipation of US slaves in Texas in 1865, will be set aside for "celebration, education, and connection." 

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The stock market's recovery following its coronavirus plunge has been led by the so-called FAANG stocks — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet — along with Microsoft.After outperforming the S&P 500 for the year, those companies now comprise more than 20% of the total market capitalization of that index.There's a good case for the run-up in the shares of Netflix, Amazon, and even Microsoft, said Dan Morgan, a longtime tech investor; all seem to have benefited from the pandemic-related shut-down orders.But the shares of Apple, Facebook, and Google look like they've gotten ahead of themselves; all three companies were likely significantly affected by the coronavirus-spurred economic downturn, Morgan said.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

The stock market has come roaring back from the hit it took this spring from the coronavirus crisis, but if you ask Dan Morgan, the rebound may be a bit overdone, at least when it comes to some of the biggest tech stocks.

The market's recovery has been led by the so-called FAANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet — along with Microsoft. All of those companies, which dominate the S&P 500, have outperformed that index for the year to date and most have beaten it since mid-March when the companies' shares and the index bottomed out. Thanks to that performance relative to the broader market, the group of five FAANG companies plus Microsoft now represents more than 20% of the total market capitalization of the entire combined S&P 500.

"It just amazes me the way the money keeps funneling into those six or seven names," Morgan, a senior portfolio manager at Synovus Trust and a longtime tech investor, told Business Insider in an interview Thursday.

A good case can be made for the run-up in the shares of Amazon and Netflix and, to some extent, Microsoft, Morgan said. All three companies have benefited to a greater or lesser extent from the pandemic-related shelter-in-place orders.

With brick-and-mortar retail stores largely closed, US consumers turned to online shopping in big numbers to buy groceries, toilet paper, and other essential goods. With people staying home and unable to go to movie theaters or see live sports or other events, many have turned to streaming services for their entertainment. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Team messaging service, the chief rival to Slack's chat software, has seen an upsurge in use as many office workers have had to rely on such tools to communicate with their colleagues as they work from home.

But Morgan has been stunned by the corresponding rebound in shares of Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook. Facebook and Alphabet both warned investors in April that they saw a significant slowdown in advertising sales at the end of the first quarter. Industry experts expect that things got worse in April and May, as companies around the country laid off millions of workers and slashed costs to try to stay afloat with the economy largely shut down.

Longtime tech investor Dan Morgan thinks Apple and other big tech stocks have gotten ahead of themselves. Bloomberg/YouTube

Apple was hit early by the crisis, because the pandemic started in China. Most of the company's products are made in that country, and it sees a significant portion of its sales there. With the epidemic raging in China earlier this year, Apple's factories and stores in the country were shut down, leading to flat sales in its most recent quarter. As with Google and Facebook, things likely got worse more recently as the coronavirus spread to the US and shut down the economy.

"The entire group is up year to date, which you would never expect," Morgan said. "You could see Amazon and Netflix doing really well, but you'd have to say, in retrospect, you would never expect a Facebook, a Google, or even an Apple."

Facebook's shares shares are up a whopping 74% since hitting their nadir on March 18. Apple's are up 62% since reaching bottom on March 23. Alphabet's stock has bounced back 44% over that same time period.

By contrast, the S&P 500 as a whole is up 46% since bottoming out on March 23.

It's hard to justify the rebound in the shares of Apple, Facebook, Alphabet as based on pure fundamentals, Morgan said. The second-quarter reports for those and many other companies are likely to be bad, he said.

So the market is likely valuing them based on predictions about what their numbers will be like next year, he said. The future is likely going to be better than the second quarter. But there's still a good deal of uncertainty about how well the companies will recover, and good reason to worry about how they've been doing lately, he said.

"To me, those are situations where they may be a little bit ahead of themselves, at least based on the fundamentals," Morgan said. "Because I still think this upcoming quarter is not going be too beautiful for those companies."

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Microsoft employees are using an internal company message board to share their personal experiences with the ongoing protests against police brutality and systemic racism, and calling for leadership to take action."Deployment of chemical weapons in residential neighborhoods should be of grave concern for MSFT leadership and beyond," one employee said.The messages only add to pressure from employees for Microsoft to take a bolder stand on the matter — the discussion came the day after more than 250 Microsoft employees signed on to an email asking executives including Nadella to support the protests against systemic racism.Last week, Nadella told employees: "As a company, we need to look inside, examine our organization, and do better. I have heard from many employees over the past several days, expressing calls for action, calls for reflection, calls for change. My response is this: Yes. We have to act."Are you a current or former Microsoft employee? Contact this reporter via encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-425-344-8242) or email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

In internal messages reviewed by Business Insider, employees spoke about their personal experiences around the ongoing protests against systemic racism across America, and called on Microsoft leadership to take action.

"The Seattle PD have teargassed me twice in my home, and pepper sprayed me 3 times when I went outside. Considering I'm recovering from the plague, that's a lot," one employee wrote on a Microsoft internal Yammer social media group, according to messages shared with Business Insider. "Deployment of chemical weapons in residential neighborhoods should be of grave concern for MSFT leadership and beyond," another said.

One employee appeared to call on Microsoft leadership to put into practice what is often hailed as a major culture shift within the company, spearheaded by CEO Satya Nadella. "I've been thinking a lot about how Microsoft has made organizational change from a more aggressive culture to one that focuses on human centered design and empathy," the employee said. 

The messages only add to pressure from employees for Microsoft to take a bolder stand on the protests, which have been ongoing for nearly two weeks since the death of George Floyd was captured on camera.

Employees ask for action

Police in Seattle, about 15 miles from Microsoft's headquarters and where many of its employees live, have been widely criticized, including by local politicians, for the use of chemical agents to disperse protesters who were demonstrating against police brutality.

The protests prompted more than 250 Microsoft employees to sign on an email that started circulating Monday morning asking executives including Nadella to support protests against systemic racism with actions such as ending the company's contracts with police departments, and making internal reforms to support employees. The initial email began with a small group of 20 employees, but ballooned out to more than 250 as word got around, OneZero reported earlier on Tuesday.

However, the whole company got involved when the email was shared on the company's internal Yammer social network — specifically, in a group called "CEO Connection," which Microsoft describes as meant "to allow employees to ask Satya and his leadership team questions and discuss topics that are relevant to the entire company" — it became a companywide discussion, according to the messages viewed by Business Insider. 

"The amount of distrust between police and civilians is appalling, and the lack of significant action on the officers' side to appeal to the crowd is disappointing," one employee said. "For several nights, I've watched police use their tactics to hurt people more than help," another employee said.

'As a company, we need to look inside'

Nadella has yet to respond directly to the email or the subsequent discussions. Microsoft responded to Business Insider's request for comment by sharing a statement Nadella made in an internal memo last week, before the email from employees was sent.

"As a company, we need to look inside, examine our organization, and do better. I have heard from many employees over the past several days, expressing calls for action, calls for reflection, calls for change. My response is this: Yes. We have to act," he said, but did not commit to specific actions.

Microsoft has long partnered with law enforcement agencies, including the New York Police Department. It provides a surveillance product called Domain Awareness System, which gathers data from detection devices including cameras and license plate readers to, as Microsoft has said, provide "NYPD investigators and analysts with a comprehensive view of potential threats and criminal activity."

Microsoft has been criticized before for its work with law enforcement agencies. In March, immigrant rights groups and some Microsoft workers asked tech companies including their own employer to stop sharing their technologies with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency conducted raids during the coronavirus crisis. Nadella previously downplayed the company's work with ICE.

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You can use a Chromecast-enabled device to listen to Apple Music as long as you have an Apple ID and an Apple Music subscription. To cast your favorite Apple Music podcasts, radio channels, and curated playlists using Android devices and Chromebooks, they will need to meet model and software specifications.  Before casting your Apple Music library, make sure your smartphone or tablet with the Apple Music app are on the same Wi-Fi network as your Chromecast.Visit Business Insider's Tech Reference library for more stories.

Android and Google device users no longer need to envy their Apple iOS-supported friends. You can now play the millions of songs in the Apple Music library, along with the app's podcasts, albums, and radio channels through your Chromecast device. Both Android and iOS users can also sync their Apple Music app to a Google Home or Android Smart TV. 

To connect your Apple Music account to your Android and iOS devices, you'll need a subscription to Apple Music, and you'll need to be logged in to the same Apple ID across your various devices. Finally, for Android users, your phone or tablet will need to be running Android 5.0 (Lollipop) or later. For those using a Chromebook, it will have to be a model that supports downloading Android apps. You will also need a later version of a Chromecast or Google home device that supports audio.

Here's how to listen to your Apple Music library using your Android and Google devices. 

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How to cast the Apple Music app using your Android and Google devices

1. Download the Apple Music app from the Google Play Store if you haven't already. 

Type Apple Music into your Google Play search bar to find the app. Abbey White/Business Insider

2. Open Apple Music on your Chromebook or Android-based phone or tablet. 

Your app should open on the Library tab. Abbey White/Business Insider

3. Locate the media you want to play and begin streaming it. 

4. While it's playing, tap the song, podcast, or radio channel at the bottom of your screen

This will bring up the full-screen player. Abbey White/Business Insider

5. Towards the bottom of the player, locate the Casting icon, and tap it. 

This icon will be between the lyrics and playlist icons, directly beneath the Play/Pause button. Abbey White/Business Insider

6. Select the Chromecast or other Google device you want to connect Apple Music to.  

A list of your available devices will appear in a pop-up window. Abbey White/Business Insider

7. You can also cast your device without playing a song by selecting the Cast icon at the top of the app screen. 

This icon is located next to the Apple Music app Search icon. Abbey White/Business Insider

 

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Tech billionaire Todd McKinnon has announced he is disassociating himself from the fitness organization Crossfit after its founder made offensive statements about George Floyd.The Okta CEO has been a very public supporter of Crossfit for years. In 2017, he even competed in its premiere competition that ranked him among the fittest people of all men his age.Since Crossfit founder Greg Glassman's statements about Floyd and COVID-19 on Sunday, the fallout has been swift and severe. Crossfit has lost sponsors, employees, athletes, and at least 1,000 affiliate gyms so far, and counting.And now, it's publicly lost the support of one its wealthy Silicon Valley advocates.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Todd McKinnon, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of cloud security company Okta, is known in Silicon Valley as a very fit person thanks to his love of Crossfit.

For instance, in 2017, the same year that McKinnon took Okta public, he competed in the big annual Crossfit games and was crowned the 14th fittest man on earth in his 45-to-49 age group. He can handstand walk across an entire room and has been known to do so on request to liven up a meeting. 

But on Tuesday, McKinnon weighed in on the drama tearing up the fitness world because of offensive comments that Crossfit founder Greg Glassman made on Twitter regarding George Floyd, the black man killed by police whose death has sparked protests about systemic racism and police brutality worldwide.

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Crossfit CEO Greg Glassman Crossfit n response to a tweet by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) that called racism a pubic health issue, Glassman tweeted "It's FLOYD-19," on Sunday, mashing up Floyd's name and the coronavirus disease, COVID-19. 

Glassman continued with another tweet that implied that the COVID-19 quarantine wasn't necessary.

"Your failed model quarantined us and now you're going to model a solution to racism? George Floyd's brutal murder sparked riots nationally," he tweeted. "Quarantine alone is 'accompanied in every age and under all political regimes by an undercurrent of suspicion, distrust, and riots.' Thanks!"

Glassman had already called a gym owner "disgusting" in an email after she pushed Crossfit to put out a statement in support of Black Lives Matter.

"You think you are more virtuous than we are. It's disgusting," he wrote as part of a longer-winded rant email that was widely circulated on social media right before he made the ill-advised tweets.

The response to Glassman's comments has been swift and severe. Reebok dropped its sponsorship as did Rogue Fitness. Top employees have resigned while top athletes announced they will boycott the organization and its competitions. Over 1,000 gyms and counting — out of about 14,000 — have dropped their association with the organization. Gyms pay about $3,000 a year to be part of the organization. 

Business Insider/Julie Bort By Sunday night, Glassman who calls himself a "rabid libertarian" according to a NPR report, tried to shore up the damage by tweeting an apology. He wrote that Crossfit will not stand for racism and that his comments were "a mistake, not racist but a mistake." Then he explained that he was angry at the IHME over the COVID-19 quarantine, calling the shut-downs "needless, economy-wrecking, life-wrecking."

But the damage continues. On Tuesday, one of its stars in the wealthy tech community — McKinnon — said he will no longer associate or advocate for the company:

"CrossFit has been part of my life since 2006! But @CrossFitCEO's tweet was unacceptable. The best parts of CrossFit are the community and the affiliates, and I love how they've rallied to condemn the negativity and divisiveness. We need to unite right now not divide," McKinnon wrote in his own tweet.

"I'm with the affiliates and community and will no longer participate in CrossFit events or promote the @CrossFit brand. CrossFit can fix this but it's going to take major actions beyond the apologies they've made," McKinnon said.

Okta, which has had its stock price soar during the coronavirus crisis, says it has donated to Equal Justice Initiative, Southern Poverty Law Center, NAACP, ACLU, MN Freedom Fund, and Black Lives Matter in the wake of Floyd's death. 

Original author: Julie Bort