| Google faces a big antitrust fine in Europe, Nest's CEO steps down and UPS tests a new delivery system powered by Latch. Here's your Daily Crunch for July 18, 2018. 1. Google gets slapped with $5BN EU fine for Android antitrust abuse Google has been hit with a record-breaking €4.34 billion (~$5BN) fine by European regulators, who say the company abused the dominance of its Android operating system to direct traffic to Google's search engine. Google says it will appeal the decision, tweeting, "Android has created more choices for everyone, not less." 
2. Nest's CEO is stepping down This news comes just a little over two years after Fawaz took over the role after the departure of co-founder Tony Fadell. 3. The Google Assistant app will walk you through your day It's a Google-heavy day for news, but it's not all bad. The company is also rolling out a new feature in Assistant that pulls in a bunch of relevant information from across Google services, including calendar, reminders, stocks, package deliveries, flights, restaurant/movie reservations and suggested Actions. 4. Undercover report shows the Facebook moderation sausage being made An undercover reporter with the U.K.'s Channel 4 visited a content moderation outsourcing firm in Dublin and saw queues of flagged content waiting, videos of kids fighting staying online and orders from above not to take action on underage users. 5. UPS is testing an Amazon Key-style delivery program in New York UPS has been quietly testing a program that lets the shipping service deliver packages inside multi-unit homes while occupants are out. The service utilizes smart locks created by New York startup Latch. 6. Slack acquires Missions to help users automate work tasks inside chat Slack announced that it has acquired Robots and Pencils' Missions, an app that allows Slack users to build tools to automate simple routines without code. 7. BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalism Senior Product Manager Kate Zasada said the company's own research has found that some readers "don't completely understand" that while BuzzFeed is famous for GIF-filled lists, it also produces "deeply researched and fact-checked" journalism. | 
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