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Tesla says all new cars, including models in production, will come with self-driving hardware but features will be rolled out over time as software is perfected — On Wednesday night, Tesla, the electric car company helmed by Elon Musk, announced that all new cars in production would be equipped with …
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Sequoia Capital hires Yahoo's Jess Lee, CEO of fashion site Polyvore, as first female US investing partner — Lee will leave her post as CEO of fashion and home decor site Polyvore. — Sarah McBride — For the first time in its 44-year history, Sequoia Capital, one of the most vaunted … | Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg defends having Thiel as a Facebook board member in internal memo, says it's important to stand up for peoples' right to hold different views — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg clearly doesn't intend to distance his company from board member and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel.
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Sources: Google reaches deal with CBS to carry network on Unplugged web TV service on YouTube, to debut early 2017; talks ongoing with 21st Century Fox, Disney — New service, to be housed on YouTube platform, is likely to debut in early 2017 — Google Inc. has reached an agreement …
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Apple sends out invites for event at 10AM PT on October 27 at its Cupertino campus, with tagline “hello again”; new Macs are expected to be announced — And we're back to the Mac — As expected, Apple just sent out invites for an event in Cupertino next week on October 27th.
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| Deanna Ting / Skift: |
Airbnb bans hosts in New York and San Francisco from listing multiple homes starting Nov. 1, will update tech to limit NYC listings to one address per person — Supporters of Airbnb hold a rally outside City Hall in New York. Today, Airbnb announced new policies in an attempt to alleviate concerns …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
LinkedIn says a Russian man arrested in the Czech Republic is believed to be involved in the 2012 breach, which saw the release of 117M passwords — Russian man drove luxury car, then collapsed after being apprehended, police say. — An alleged Russian hacker arrested in the Czech Republic following …
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Google launches Android Pay in Hong Kong, says it is available at over 5K locations to users with devices equipped with NFC and KitKat 4.4 or higher — Google launches ‘simple and secure’ mobile payment system, seeking to close ground with WeChat Wallet and Apple Pay which launched in Hong Kong earlier this year| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google releases Android 7.1 developer preview to beta testers with Nexus 5X, 6P, and Pixel C devices — No major surprises here: Earlier this month, Google announced that the Android 7.1 Nougat Developer Preview and its SDK tools would roll out to developers sometime later this month …
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NBA will broadcast one game per week, minimum 25 games this season, in VR, in partnership with NextVR — They wont be free, but they will be ad-free. — The NBA is expanding its push into virtual reality. — The league announced Thursday it will broadcast at least one game per week …
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Greg Gopman, hired this month as Twitter's VR program manager, says he has been fired, after his comments about SF's homeless resurfaced — PR recovery 101: when you screw up this reality, move on to the next one. — Twitter seems to be slowly building up its AR/VR hires as its other real-world hopes … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple is listed as an exhibitor at Mobile World Congress 2017, its first trade show since Macworld in 2009, where it could promote “Planet of the Apps” — Apple Inc. has been listed as a 2017 exhibitor at Mobile World Congress, which is an oddity given the company's trade show presence … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
LeEco launches the Le Pro3, a $399 Android 6.0 smartphone with 5.5-inch display, 16 megapixel camera, Snapdragon 821 processor, and no 3.5mm headphone jack — LeEco announced that its first smartphone in the United States will be the Le Pro3. While the phone has been available internationally since …
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