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Uber launches new Destinations feature that lets drivers pick up and drop off riders along specific routes and rolls out rider late fees in a dozen more cites — Being an Uber driver can be a pain in the ass. Just ask, well, any of them. They'll start out by saying, “Sure …
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Legendary MLPS team behind Cisco's “spin-in” R&D strategy resigns in apparent disagreement with roles following recent reorganization — Move comes after last week's announcement of management changes involving three of the four executives — Four Cisco Systems Inc. executives …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft will support Apache Spark big data framework with its HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI, and Microsoft R Server software and services — Microsoft is supporting Apache Spark with its HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI and Microsoft R Server software and services.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Blizzard announces it's integrating Facebook Live into all of its PC games for gameplay streaming — Blizzard Entertainment and Facebook have teamed up to weave Facebook identity and social networking services into the enormously popular Overwatch PC and console video game as well as other popular Battle.net games.
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| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung May Release Phones With Bendable Screens in 2017 — One model said to have screen that folds like cosmetic compact — Samsung said to plan releasing Note 7, skipping a generation — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering introducing two new smartphone models that will feature bendable screens …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cortana arrives on Xbox One for preview members — Microsoft is releasing a new Xbox One update for its preview members today, and it includes access to Cortana for the first time. While Microsoft had originally planned to introduce Cortana for Xbox One last year, the company delayed …
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| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
Impressions of Comma.ai's $1K car kit, which transforms ordinary cars into self-driving cars, after test drive with George Hotz; kit expected to debut this year — Sitting in an Aria Hotel penthouse suite with views of the Las Vegas Strip and the vast Mojave Desert beyond, George Hotz was ready to bury the hatchet with the Elon Musk.| Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal: |
E.W. Scripps Co. buys podcast streaming app Stitcher from Deezer for $4.5M — Podcast app will operate under Scripps' Midroll Media unit after $4.5 million acquisition — Media company E.W. Scripps Co. has continued its push into podcasting with the acquisition of Stitcher for $4.5 million in cash.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Former NASA chief Daniel Goldin unveils his startup, KnuEdge, after ten years in stealth, says it's raised $100M to date to build “neural chips” — It's not all that easy to call KnuEdge a startup. Created a decade ago by Daniel Goldin, the former head of the National Aeronautics …
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eWeek, Marketwire, BiometricUpdate, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, SpaceRef, socalTECH.com, Wall Street Journal, Tom's Hardware, Inquirer, Business Insider and PCWorld. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Planner, a project-management and team-scheduling tool, as part of Office 365 — Microsoft today launched Office 365 Planner, a new project-management tool for teams. The company will be rolling out Planner worldwide to Office 365 users, including Office 365 Enterprise E1-E5 …
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Office Blogs, The Next Web, ZDNet, TechCrunch, PCWorld, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, Neowin, The Verge, SlashGear, WinBeta, Fortune, tech.co, Engadget, Windows Central and Lifehacker. Tweets: @jacobian
| Lawrence Hurley / Reuters: |
US Supreme Court rejects Google's bid to throw out a class action lawsuit alleging deceptive Adword ad placement practices — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's decision to allow a class action lawsuit against Google Inc to proceed regarding claims …
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The Hill, Marketing Land, Associated Press, ZDNet, TechCrunch, WebProNews and Fortune
| Steve Hendrix / Washington Post: |
Residential neighborhoods struggle with through traffic sent their way by navigation apps like Waze — When the traffic on Timothy Connor's quiet Maryland street suddenly jumped by several hundred cars an hour, he knew who was partly to blame: the disembodied female voice he could hear through …
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