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By Dan Bova

  1. Facebook's chief information security officer Alex Stamos is said to be leaving the company amidst the revelation that the data of 50 million Facebook users was harvested by political data firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook's stock fell eight percent yesterday.
  2. A self-driving Uber car -- with an emergency backup driver behind the wheel -- hit and killed a woman on a street in Tempe, Ariz. This is the first reported pedestrian death associated with an autonomous vehicle.
  3. Jeff Bezos tweeted a photo of himself taking a robot dog for a walk at Amazon's MARS conference on Monday. The invite-only gathering focuses on machine learning, robotics and space exploration.

Watch yesterday's 3 Things to Know: The Trouble with Facebook

Dan Bova

Entrepreneur Staff

VP of Special Projects

Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia ZoneRoad & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little Book of Awesome Stuff, and Wendell the Werewolf

Read his humor column This Should Be Fun if you want to feel better about yourself.

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