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Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice president for business and second in command at the ride-hailing company, announces his departure in email to employees — SAN FRANCISCO — Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice president for business and second in command at the ride-hailing company …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber's board unanimously votes to “adopt all the recommendations of the Holder Report”, which will be announced to employees on Tuesday — Uber's directors met today for seven hours to discuss the findings of an external investigation into the company's toxic culture.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iPad Pro 10.5-inch review: great tablet camera, lower latency with Apple Pencil, and excellent battery life, but iOS 11 still three months away — More RAM, great screen, and better keyboard will all shine... once iOS 11 is out. — Nothing Apple has done in the last three years has reversed …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say Crash Override, which took down Ukraine's power grid, is the only known malware to have attacked physical infrastructure other than Stuxnet — AT MIDNIGHT, A week before last Christmas, hackers struck an electric transmission station north of the city of Kiev … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat officially launches self-serve Ad Manager tool to make buying ads easier and a Certified Partners program that gives extra training to ad tech partners — To beat Facebook and Google's duopoly, Snapchat needs advertisers to build and buy campaigns with confidence.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Zelle, the real-time Venmo competitor backed by 30+ US banks, arrives this month embedded in apps of participating banks; standalone app coming later this year — The U.S. banking industry's answer to Venmo has now arrived. Starting this month, a new, person-to-person payments network called Zelle …
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
The Essential Phone will launch as a Sprint exclusive but will also be available to purchase unlocked from Essential's website — NEW YORK—The Essential phone that is the brainchild of Android co-founder Andy Rubin doesn't have a launch date beyond the vague promise of late summer.
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Jaguar Land Rover's mobility services business, InMotion, invests $25M in Lyft in partnership to develop and test autonomous vehicles — - InMotion will develop and test services including autonomous-drive vehicles with the ride-sharing operator. — Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India's Tata Motors …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Xbox One X gaming console, formerly known as “Project Scorpio”, which can run games natively at 4K, shipping November 7 worldwide for $499 — After months of speculation, Microsoft is unveiling its “Project Scorpio” games console today, and it's officially named Xbox …
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Sources: Facebook is building feature to let users subscribe to news publications, expected by end of year; talks ongoing around payment model, Instant Articles — Facebook may soon help its users do something unfamiliar on the platform: pay for news by building a feature that would allow users … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Inside the battle to be the top reply to a Trump tweet, a spot that guarantees hundreds of thousands of impressions for those who beat the ranking algorithm — The area below the President's tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet. - Adam Best is always ready for a new tweet from President Trump.| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
Instagram starts cracking down on services like Instagress that automate follows, likes, and comments — I posted a picture in March of the New York Times headquarters looking serene before a snowstorm to my Instagram account. The photo attracted 11 comments, all from strangers.| Steven Sinofsky / Learning by Shipping: |
Opportunities for Apple devs post WWDC: iPad with iOS 11 as productivity tool; ARKit, Core ML; external graphics dev kit in MacOS; iMac Pro as a dev machine — Many of us have been using the dev builds of iOS 11 and MacOS High Sierra this week. I wanted to share some thoughts on what I think are some of the important advances.Sponsor Posts
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