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TPG partner David Bonderman resigns from Uber board after making disparaging remark about women at Uber meeting following Holder report — SAN FRANCISCO — David Bonderman, an Uber board member and partner at private equity firm TPG, is resigning from the board of the ride-hailing company …
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Box introduces desktop app Box Drive on Windows and MacOS, which enables access to files in the cloud without opening a web browser — Box just made it a little easier to access your files while you're at your computer. — The company is introducing Box Drive, a desktop application that works on Windows and MacOS.
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Facebook updates Safety Check, adding personalized tools including a fundraising option for private and charitable causes — The Facebook tool everyone hopes they'll never have to use is getting another upgrade. — Facebook announced four new updates to its Safety Check feature on Wednesday …
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Charles Thacker, one of the lead designers of the Xerox Alto, co-inventor of Ethernet, and recipient of the Turing award in 2009, dies at 74 — Every computer we use today owes a debt to the legendary and influential machine. — Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto …
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Google Play debuts Android Excellence curated collections that showcase top apps and games — At WWDC this month, Apple introduced an entirely revamped App Storethat puts a much greater focus on editorial, with plans for stories about the apps, how to's, interviews, and more … | New York Times: |
Use of US cyberweapons against ISIS, which uses the web to recruit, spread propaganda, and use encrypted communication, has been a consistent disappointment — WASHINGTON — America's fast-growing ranks of secret cyberwarriors have in recent years blown up nuclear centrifuges in Iran …
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Mozilla launches Firefox 54 with Electrolysis tech which uses up to four processes to run content across tabs and lays foundation for sandboxing — Mozilla hopes a new phase of its Electrolysis project will bring you back to its browser by making it faster and better able to resist crashes.
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Facebook Messenger's AI assistant M now makes suggestions in Spanish to users in US and Mexico — Any technology that only works in English neglects 75% of the world. That problem is especially severe for Facebook with its global userbase. Yet most languages are being left out by the advances …
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Cross-border money transfer service WorldRemit adds Android Pay support for remittances across its 112M-account, 125-country network — Cross-border money transfer service WorldRemit is enabling its immigrant customer base to send money home using Android Pay, making it the first international … | Christine Hall / Data Center Knowledge: |
Microsoft joins open source PaaS project Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member — The Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley opened in Santa Clara, California, today with announcements by the Cloud Foundry Foundation of a new certification for developers as well as a new member, Microsoft.
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Element AI, a platform for companies to build AI solutions, raises $102M Series A led by Data Collective — The race for artificial intelligence technology is on, and while tech giants like Google and Facebook snap up top talent to build out their own AI-powered products …
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In wake of WannaCry, Microsoft fixes 3 flaws affecting unsupported OSes including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that it initially said it wouldn't patch — The company previously said it would not fix three outstanding exploits, but reversed course following the ransomware attack in May.
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