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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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| 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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Alleged Google Pixel 2 picture leaks, shows front stereo speakers, the lack of a 3.5 mm 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. But that's not the interesting part our eyes … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
YouTube rolls out chat to all its Android and iOS users, includes group messaging for up to 30 users — YouTube today rolled out the ability to share videos with contacts directly in its mobile app for Android and iOS. Users can chat about shared videos using text, react with emoji …
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| 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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| 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.
Tweets: @mdudas
| 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.
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| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
19 brands in over a dozen categories found to be owned by Amazon despite no up front disclosure, oftentimes selling alongside Amazon's generic house brands — When you go to Amazon.com, what are you looking for? Products from the brands you recognize, or perhaps just the cheapest ones—assuming the ratings aren't terrible?
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| Shirley Halperin / Variety: |
Sources: Tidal hires new CEO Richard Sanders, former president of music royalty collector Kobalt — Former Kobalt Music Group president Richard Sanders is the new CEO of Tidal, the Jay-Z-owned music streaming service launched in 2015, sources confirm to Variety.
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Intel finalizes specs of Core i9-7980XE: 18-cores, 2.6GHz clock speed with 4.4GHz Turbo Boost, 24.75MB L3 Cache, 165W TDP; priced at $1999, ships September 25 — When Intel launched its new high-end desktop platform a few weeks ago, we were provided with Core-X CPUs from quad cores …
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