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Sources: Uber's board has voted to offer the CEO job to Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — Sources close to one leading candidate, Meg Whitman, said she has not been informed as yet about a choice. — The board of Uber has apparently voted on some decision related to the next Uber CEO.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Profile of Uber's pick for CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who has been Expedia's CEO for 12 years and was CFO at Barry Diller's IAC prior to running Expedia — In a move that surprised the tech industry, Uber on Sunday offered its CEO job to a man who wasn't on anyone's radar: Expedia's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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| Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz: |
China issues new rules forbidding anonymous posts in online communities and discussion forums, effective October 1 — The Chinese government under president Xi Jinping is continuing to make life on the internet difficult for its potential detractors. Yesterday (Aug. 25) … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
VMware says its integration with AWS is now live, launches a set of new SaaS products at its VMworld conference — Being a better multi-cloud wrangler is VMware's Azure Stack defence — VMWORLD 2017 VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger last week introduced the company's second quarter results b saying …
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| Joseph Marks / Defense One: |
Eight out of 28 of Trump's Homeland Security cybersecurity panel resign, citing “insufficient attention” to the issues, Charlottesville comments, more — Board members also condemned the president's response to racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.| Britta O'Boyle / Pocket-lint: |
Fitbit announces $300 Ionic GPS smartwatch running Fitbit OS and $129 Flyer wireless headphones — Fitbit has announced its long-rumoured GPS smartwatch in the form of the Fitbit Ionic, alongside a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones called Fitbit Flyer.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
comScore: 66% of US consumers still download zero apps per month and 57% of consumers' time spent using digital media is now taking place in mobile apps — Apps are dominating consumers' digital media habits, but getting people to try new ones is still a tough sell.
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Digital Trends, comScore, Marketing Land, Recode, Dice Insights, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @brysonmeunier and @valaafshar
| Gareth Corfield / The Register: |
Germany's self-driving car ethics guidelines: prioritize human life over animals or property in accidents, don't choose whom to save based on age, and more — New auto rules approaching in the land of Das Auto — Germany's government has answered the car ethics question once and for all … | Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
Finland-based ICEYE raises $13M led by Draper Nexus to build and launch a constellation of small satellites for its Earth imaging service — “We're building something slightly less capable that's smaller, cheaper.” — The biggest thing in aerospace these days is the trend toward small things …
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Tweets: @arstechnica and @ieeeorg
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Battling hate by letting internet platforms censor bad people is likely to be ineffective and will lead to the suppression of worthy content — I'm going to try to do something that's generally not recommended on the internet: I'm going to try to discuss a complicated issue that has many nuances and gray areas.
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| Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal: |
Toutiao, a Chinese news aggregator that uses deep learning to tailor feeds to individual users, says it has 120M DAUs and made $900M revenue in 2016 — Apps that supply news streams tailored to individual users by algorithms are China's fastest-growing mobile segment
Tweets: @wsj and @edwardroussel
| James Redmayne / Reuters: |
Drones with AI-powered shark detection software to patrol Australian beaches; studies show humans are 20-30% accurate at spotting sharks, AI is ~90% accurate — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Drones equipped with a shark detection system powered by artificial intelligence will start patrolling …
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