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Uber refuses to apply for autonomous vehicle testing permit, asks DMV to clarify how self-driving Ubers in SF are different from Teslas with autopilot — Your move, California — Uber is sticking to its guns in refusing to apply for a $150 permit that the California Department of Motor Vehicles …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
California Attorney General insists Uber immediately stop testing self-driving vehicles on public roads, or she'll seek injunctive relief — The California Department of Motor Vehicles sent Uber a notice asking it to terminate its pilot self-driving car service in San Francisco last week … | Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Nadella's Microsoft turns itself around, changing its insular culture by acquiring more companies, and incorporating new leaders from those companies — After years of missteps, the software giant is among the few titans of the 1990s to figure out the new world of mobile technology and cloud computing| Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
Current and former employees recount the birth of cloud computing efforts at Microsoft and how the company came to embrace cloud computing as a business — From suffering through a decade of product delays, missed opportunities and lackluster stock performance, Microsoft found a rebirth of sorts through cloud computing.Thanks:@anectolts
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vine won't be removed from app stores, will instead relaunch as “Vine Camera” in January — In October, Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, its app that let users create and share 6-second looping videos. Today, the company says it won't actually pull the Vine app …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, Automattic, and Medium have now said they'll refuse to help build a Muslim registry — Apple, Google, and Uber have all broken their respective silences on whether they would participate in helping build a Muslim registry for the incoming Trump administration, BuzzFeed reports.
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| Ben Silbermann / Pinterest Blog: |
Pinterest hired women for 22% of its engineering roles in 2016, falling short of its 30% goal, and will lower its goal to 25% for 2017 — Evan and I have always believed that building diverse teams is essential to building great products. Diverse teams come with a broader set of experiences …
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, SocialTimes, Mashable, and East Bay Times. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Google Maps now shows when locations are wheelchair-friendly, thanks to a group of employees who worked on it in their “20% time” — Google Maps is now wheelchair-friendly. — The wildly popular map app will now tell you whether locations are suitable for people with access needs …
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TechCrunch, SlashGear, Engadget, Android Police, Mashable, and The Verge. Tweets: @chriseppstein
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App download trackers show 2.8M-5M+ Super Mario Run downloads on its first day; App Annie says Mario is top downloaded app in 49 countries, top grossing in 8 — Pokémon Go, step aside. In the first 24 hours, Nintendo's Super Mario Run has beaten the record-breaking Pokémon game in terms of day one downloads.
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The Verge, Tech Times, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Motherboard, Geek.com, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, destructoid, International Business Times, The Mac Observer, Wall Street Journal, iLounge, MobileSyrup.com, AppAdvice.com Latest, Polygon, iPhone in Canada Blog, Metro.co.uk, CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Variety, The Next Web, Forbes, iMore, and Recode
Tweets: @gamespot, @ryansmithat, @gamespot, and @commagere
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The US Election Assistance Commission, which oversees security of voting systems, was hacked around the time of the election, allegedly by a Russian hacker — The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which is responsible for testing and certifying voting systems, among other things …
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New York Times, Recorded Future, The Register, BuzzFeed, Engadget, Computerworld, Softpedia News, The Next Web, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @binitamshah and @therickydavila
| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
BAMTech, owned by MLB and Disney, buys rights to stream League of Legends competitions through 2023, reportedly in a $300M+ deal — BAMTech, the Major League Baseball- and Disney-owned streaming tech company, has signed a deal with Riot Games for the rights to League of Legends tournaments.
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Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Riot Games, Digital Trends, CNET, ESPN, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Kotaku, Mashable, PVP Live, TSN, pcgamer, and Consumerist
Tweets: @jasonbwlake and @bryfitz
| TechCrunch: |
NTSB says Facebook's Aquila drone crashed because its autopilot failed to compensate for unexpectedly high winds during landing — Dec 16, 2016, 8:00 amDec 16, 2016, 8:37 am — The right wing of Facebook's solar-powered drone Aquila failed, causing a crash landing of its first test flight … Sponsor Posts
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