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Anti-diversity memo author James Damore confirms Google has fired him; Pichai tells employees that portions of his memo violated the company's Code of Conduct — Engineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture” — CEO Pichai said Google employee violated Code of Conduct
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Didi Chuxing makes an undisclosed investment in Middle Eastern ride-hailing service Careem, which operates in 80 cities across 13 countries — A week after its first investment in Europe, Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is spreading its wings once again after it announced a financing deal …
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| Christopher M. Schroeder / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at how Middle Eastern startups are overcoming cultural and other barriers to tap into a growing local taste for tech, from bitcoin to digital publishing — At the end of March, it was announced that the largest e-commerce company in the Middle East and North Africa, Souq.com, would be acquired by Amazon for nearly $600 million.
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| Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
HBO hackers demand a multimillion-dollar ransom, and release emails, scripts, and personal phone numbers of GoT stars in latest dump of stolen data — Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online
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| Samson Mow / Fortune: |
Bitcoin Cash is an untested Bitcoin fork that is putting undue pressure on Bitcoin exchanges and wallet providers to support the currency — The newly created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a rushed spinoff of Bitcoin (BTC), a clonecoin of which there have been many in Bitcoin's past.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
In email to employees, Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp says “Travis is not returning as CEO” — Camp sent an email to employees on Monday afternoon. — Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp told employees that the company's former CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber plans to close or sell most of its US car-leasing division to stem unsustainably high losses, just two years after starting the business — Move by the ride-hailing company is due to unsustainably high losses — Uber Technologies Inc. plans to wind down its U.S. subprime car-leasing division … | GSMArena.com: |
Picture of alleged Google Pixel 2 developer unit leaks, shows front stereo speakers and the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack — A tipster sent us a photo of what's allegedly the Google Pixel 2. It's clearly an early dev unit with all those stickers on the back.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Firefox 55 update will add support for WebVR standard for viewing the web in VR, which Edge and Chrome already support, rolling out August 8 — Web browser developer Mozilla Corp. will bring VR viewing capabilities to its flagship product Firefox by default with its planned update Tuesday.| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
IBM touts improvement in scaling deep learning performance across servers, says its tech reached 95% efficiency across 64 servers housing 256 processors — The race to make computers smarter and more human-like continued this week with IBM IBM claiming it has developed technology …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook has killed Lifestage, the Snapchat-like dedicated social networking app for high schoolers it had released last year — Facebook has killed Lifestage, the standalone app it released almost one year ago as a dedicated social network for high schoolers.| Brian Reigh / Android Authority: |
Photos of LG's unreleased V30 phablet leak in partner-run competition, showing small bezels and no secondary screen ticker that the previous models had — Not only can we see LG's upcoming phablet from every angle, but we also have photo and video samples from its dual-lens camera. — See also:
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