| We look sum up the latest video game trends, a longtime Facebook executive departs and Google releases its latest diversity report. Here's your Daily Crunch for June 15, 2018. 1. Reflections on E3 2018 TechCrunch's Brian Heater offers some observations after a week at the video game industry's big annual event. Like: Zombies are still a thing, Nintendo is back in the spotlight and Epic Games has more money than God. As for emerging technologies, it looks like virtual reality is waiting for its breakthrough. Meanwhile, augmented reality may be a bigger deal right now, but it doesn't have much of a place at the show. 
2. Facebook's longtime head of policy and comms steps down Elliot Schrage, vice president of communications and public policy, announced his departure in a Facebook post. Schrage had come under fire over the last year for his influence in shaping Facebook's highly criticized public reaction to a series of scandals. 3. AT&T completes its acquisition of Time Warner The deal received court approval earlier this week. 4. Google releases first diversity report since the infamous anti-diversity memo Google's workforce is 30.9 percent female globally, 2.5 percent black in U.S. and 3.6 percent Latinx In U.S., according to the report. 5. Fitbit employees charged with stealing Jawbone trade secrets Jawbone's suit against Fitbit seemed to be resolved last year, but now six current and former Fitbit employees are facing federal indictments. In a statement, Fitbit said a federal judge had "found that no Jawbone trade secrets were misappropriated or used in any Fitbit product, feature or technology." 6. Gmail proves that some people hate smart suggestions While there are reasons (persuasively laid out in this post) to be leery of algorithmic sorting of emails, I have to admit that my TechCrunch inbox would be completely unusable without help from Gmail's Priority Inbox. 7. Apple's new Mac ads show that even Grimes uses dongles It's a small thing, but boy, almost everyone in these videos seems to have terrible posture. (This is what you think about when you spend all day bashing away at your laptop.) | 
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