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  Tony Hsieh speaks at the 2015 Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas. Getty Images Tony Hsieh, longtime CEO of online shoe seller Zappos and a celebrated proponent of making employee and customer happiness an end goal of business, has died at 46, according to the e-tailer. Hsieh had only recently retired from Zappos, in August, after two decades at the helm.  "The world has lost a tremendous visionary and an incredible human being," Zappos said in a  statement  on its site. "We recognize that not only have we lost our inspiring former leader, but many of you have also lost a mentor and a friend." For more like this Subscribe to the CNET Now newsletter for our editors' picks of the most important stories of the day. Hsieh died Friday after being injured in a house fire on Nov. 18 in Connecticut, where he was visiting family, The New York Times  reported , citing a spokeswoman for The Downtown Project in Las Vegas. Hsieh oversaw DTP, a redevelopment and revital...

  Welcome to this week's edition of "Unriddled": the HubSpot Marketing Blog's mid-week digest of the tech news you need to know. This week, we're coming to you live from South by Southwest (SXSW), a festival of interactive events where we're positively drowning in a sea of bots, music, and some of the best tacos around. But fear not: if recent current events have you scratching your head and wondering, "What just happened?", we've got you covered. It's our Wednesday tech news roundup, and we're breaking it down with Amanda's dance move of the week: none other than The Robot. Unriddled: The Tech News You Need 1. SXSW Kicks off With Mixed Sentiments on Tech In Austin, TX, the annual SXSW celebration of tech, film, and music kicked off with mixed sentiment and messaging around tech. Each year, SXSW polls attendees for the Trust Barometer: a measure of how much faith the crowd has in things like media, institutions, business, and technol...

  Welcome one, welcome all to another Wednesday: the day that marks the halfway point -- almost -- to the weekend . As we find ourselves halfway through July and grasping tightly to the weeks of summer that remain, we know you don't have a ton of time to devour news. So, in keeping with tradition -- we'll keep this week's "Unriddled" quick. It's our Wednesday tech news roundup, and we're breaking it down. Unriddled: The Tech News You Need 1. Apple Releases a New Macbook Pro Apple announced last week the latest release in its MacBook Pro lineup, calling it "the most advanced Mac notebook ever." Among its news features, the company says, are faster computing, an improved Retina display, and the ability to prompt Apple's voice assistant with verbal "Hey Siri" commands -- and, according to some early users, a quieter keyboard. But there may be more beneath that (hushed) surface, with rumors floating that the subdued typing volume is ac...

  Unriddled" is HubSpot's weekly digest of the tech headlines you need to know. We give you the top tech stories in a quick, scannable way and break it all down. It's tech news: explained. Unriddled: The Tech News You Need 1. Amazon is building a new kind of delivery fleet -- starting with a whole bunch of vans. Amazon ordered 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans for its new delivery program, which allows contractors around the country to sign up to deliver packages for the retail giant. Amazon hopes the program will help it expand its same-day delivery capabilities, and rely less heavily on conventional delivery services like the U.S. Postal Service, FedEx, and UPS. Read full story >> 2. Uber and other US employers have been advertising jobs to men only on Facebook. A ProPublica review found that Facebook was permitting employers to target job-related ads exclusively to men. The Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that it's illegal for employers to advertise jobs exclusively to...

  Welcome one, welcome all to Wednesday -- the day that marks not just the week's halfway point, but another edition of "Unriddled": the HubSpot Marketing Blog's mid-week digest of the tech news you need to know. This week, we continue to wade through the very crowded pool of tech news items to help you decrypt what's happening in this vast, often complex sector. And, get this: It's not  all  about Facebook. It's our Wednesday tech news roundup, and we're breaking it down. Unriddled: The Tech News You Need 1. An IRA Purge From Facebook Yesterday afternoon, Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos issued a statement indicating that the company had removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts, in addition to 138 Facebook Pages, that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA). The announcement noted that many of these Pages ran ads that have also been removed from Facebook. Roughly 95% of the Pages with content were in Russian,...

  "Unriddled" is HubSpot's mid-week digest of the tech headlines you need to know. Each week, we highlight the top stories in a quick, scannable way and break it all down. It's tech news: explained. Unriddled: The Tech News You Need 1. Twitter (and Facebook) Takes Washington Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made not one, but two appearances before U.S. lawmakers last week to testify on foreign interference on social media, as well as the company's algorithms and content moderation policies. Dorsey was joined by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg for the former -- held before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) -- where it was revealed that between October 2017 and March 2018, Facebook deleted 1.3 billion fake accounts -- an eyebrow-raising figure given the company's current metric of "2.23 billion monthly active users on Facebook as of June 30, 2018." "How can 1.3 billion accounts account for only 3 percent to 4 percent of 2.2 billion users?...