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Sources: Apple's car team gets late 2017 deadline to prove feasibility of the self-driving system, amid hundreds of job cuts and strategy disagreements — Company to decide fate of self-driving platform by late 2017 — Hundreds of software, hardware engineers leave amid struggles
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Y Combinator boss Sam Altman says he's not going to cut ties with Peter Thiel for supporting Donald Trump — “Cutting off opposing viewpoints leads to extremism and will not get us the country we want.” — The head of Silicon Valley's most famous startup factory says he's sticking with Peter Thiel …
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Google Flights will now tell you when fares are likely to increase and help you find cheaper tickets — Google's airfare search destination Google Flights already offered a variety of features aimed at helping you find low-cost tickets, but today it's rolling out one more … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Netflix beats expectations, adding 3.2M global subscribers vs. 2M expected and 370K domestic subscribers vs. 304K for the quarter; stock up over 18% after hours — Netflix is finally breaking off from its slowing subscriber growth trend as it posted a huge quarter that beat both its own, and Wall Street's, expectations.| Alan Travis / Guardian: |
UK court rules that bulk personal data collection by GCHQ from 1998 to 2015 was illegal under ECHR, but collection is now compliant after 2015 government avowal — Investigatory powers tribunal says agencies operated secret regimes to collect vast amounts of communications data for 10 years
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Samsung announces Exynos 7 Dual 7270, a 14nm SoC with integrated LTE modem for wearables — Samsung's mobile division is in crisis mode right now, so of course the company is happy to talk about one division that is doing well: chips. It just unveiled the Exynos 7 Dual 7270 … | Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Lenovo Yoga Book review: a great looking thin and light device with long battery life, but has few useful ports, a weak processor, and needs software refinement — Awkward. That's the word that comes to mind when I think of all of the 2-in-1, “convertible” laptops that have come to market in recent years … | Miranda Katz / Backchannel: |
Three years after Tracy Chou asked “Where are the numbers?”, diversity reports are routine, but tech companies show modest gains — If you want to make tech less white and male, you need numbers. But data didn't exist until one pissed-off engineer took action.
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With 5M MAUs, streaming startup Pluto TV raises $30M at $140M valuation from ProSieben, Scripps Networks, others to expand to Europe, buys Berlin-based Quazer — Pluto TV, a video streaming service targeting cord cutters by offering a TV-guide like experience that connects you to hundreds … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Ozlo virtual assistant exits private beta, launches on iOS and the web — Calling itself one of the last independent AI-powered assistants, the Ozlo personal assistant was made publicly available for the first time today on iOS and the web. — Ozlo will expand to become …
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KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo estimates that 5-7M ex-Galaxy Note7 orders will convert into iPhone 7 sales, predominantly iPhone 7 Plus — Apple appears to the be the primary beneficiary of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall blunders, with replacement devices also prone to catching fire which eventually resulted …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cisco buys YC-backed meeting app Worklife for an undisclosed sum, plans to continue to provide it as a free standalone service — Cisco announced today that it was acquiring Worklife, a member of the Y Combinator winter 2015 class, for an undisclosed sum. — Worklife was founded with the idea …
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