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December 17, 2016, 11:50 PM

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Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge:
Uber refuses to apply for autonomous vehicle testing permit, asks DMV to clarify how self-driving Ubers in SF are different from Teslas with autopilot  —  Your move, California  —  Uber is sticking to its guns in refusing to apply for a $150 permit that the California Department of Motor Vehicles …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Vine won't be removed from app stores, will instead relaunch as “Vine Camera” in January  —  In October, Twitter announced it was shutting down Vine, its app that let users create and share 6-second looping videos.  Today, the company says it won't actually pull the Vine app …
Nick Statt / The Verge:
Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, Automattic, and Medium have now said they'll refuse to help build a Muslim registry  —  Apple, Google, and Uber have all broken their respective silences on whether they would participate in helping build a Muslim registry for the incoming Trump administration, BuzzFeed reports.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
App download trackers show 2.8M-5M+ Super Mario Run downloads on its first day; App Annie says Mario is top downloaded app in 49 countries, top grossing in 8  —  Pokémon Go, step aside.  In the first 24 hours, Nintendo's Super Mario Run has beaten the record-breaking Pokémon game in terms of day one downloads.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
The US Election Assistance Commission, which oversees security of voting systems, was hacked around the time of the election, allegedly by a Russian hacker  —  The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which is responsible for testing and certifying voting systems, among other things …
Aaron Souppouris / Engadget:
BAMTech, owned by MLB and Disney, buys rights to stream League of Legends competitions through 2023, reportedly in a $300M+ deal  —  BAMTech, the Major League Baseball- and Disney-owned streaming tech company, has signed a deal with Riot Games for the rights to League of Legends tournaments.
TechCrunch:
NTSB says Facebook's Aquila drone crashed because its autopilot failed to compensate for unexpectedly high winds during landing  —  Dec 16, 2016, 8:00 amDec 16, 2016, 8:37 am  —  The right wing of Facebook's solar-powered drone Aquila failed, causing a crash landing of its first test flight …
Dennis Schaal / Skift:
Trivago closes up 7.73% on its first day of trading, valuing company around $4B after raising $287M in an IPO  —  Hotel-search site Trivago will have more to spend on advertising like this after its shares debuted on Nasdaq with a $4 billion market cap at the end of the first day of trading.  Trivago

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