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Sources: Uber board met Sunday to weigh possible leave of absence for Kalanick and proposals in Holder report, which may recommend that Emil Michael leave — SAN FRANCISCO — Facing accusations that Uber executives turned a blind eye to sexual harassment and other corporate misbehavior …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber's board unanimously votes to “adopt all the recommendations of the Holder Report”, which will be announced to employees on Tuesday — Uber's directors met today for seven hours to discuss the findings of an external investigation into the company's toxic culture.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Xbox One X gaming console, formerly known as “Project Scorpio”, which can run games natively at 4K, shipping November 7 worldwide for $499 — After months of speculation, Microsoft is unveiling its “Project Scorpio” games console today, and it's officially named Xbox …
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| Tom Stone / Minecraft.net: |
Microsoft announces cross-platform Minecraft play for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, mobile, Windows 10, and VR devices — Cross-platform play! Super Duper Graphics! In-game servers! — This E3 we shared our plans to introduce the Better Together Update to unify console …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iPad Pro 10.5-inch review: great tablet camera, lower latency with Apple Pencil, and excellent battery life, but iOS 11 still three months away — More RAM, great screen, and better keyboard will all shine... once iOS 11 is out. — Nothing Apple has done in the last three years has reversed …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPad Pro 10.5-inch review: incredible screen and powerful processor, but expensive especially with accessories like the Smart Keyboard — Apple extends its tablet lead, but iOS 11 might end up being a bigger deal — A little more than a year after Apple released the 9.7-inch iPad Pro …
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
The Essential Phone will launch as a Sprint exclusive but will also be available to purchase unlocked from Essential's website — NEW YORK—The Essential phone that is the brainchild of Android co-founder Andy Rubin doesn't have a launch date beyond the vague promise of late summer.
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Jaguar Land Rover's mobility services business, InMotion, invests $25M in Lyft in partnership to develop and test autonomous vehicles — - InMotion will develop and test services including autonomous-drive vehicles with the ride-sharing operator. — Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India's Tata Motors …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Inside the battle to be the top reply to a Trump tweet, a spot that guarantees hundreds of thousands of impressions for those who beat the ranking algorithm — The area below the President's tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet. - Adam Best is always ready for a new tweet from President Trump.| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
Instagram starts cracking down on services like Instagress that automate follows, likes, and comments — I posted a picture in March of the New York Times headquarters looking serene before a snowstorm to my Instagram account. The photo attracted 11 comments, all from strangers.| Steven Sinofsky / Learning: |
Opportunities for Apple devs post WWDC: iPad with iOS 11 as productivity tool; ARKit, Core ML; external graphics dev kit in MacOS; iMac Pro as a dev machine — Many of us have been using the dev builds of iOS 11 and MacOS High Sierra this week. I wanted to share some thoughts on what I think are some of the important advances.| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Experimental 2-year Holberton School aims to train diverse group of software engineers, takes 17% of graduates' salaries for 3 years instead of up front tuition — SAN FRANCISCO — Like many computer science students, Max Johnson spends his days learning new programming languages …
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