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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Travis Kalanick resigns as Uber CEO, sources say after pressure from Benchmark, First Round, Lowercase, Menlo, and Fidelity; he will remain on Uber's board — Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday as chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing service that he helped found in 2009 and that he built …
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla confirms departure of Autopilot VP Chris Lattner, hires AI expert Andrej Karpathy as director of AI and Autopilot — Chris Lattner, who Tesla announced in January was hired from Apple Inc. as vice president of Autopilot software, has left Elon Musk's Silicon Valley auto maker.
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| Meghann Farnsworth / Recode: |
White House posts 20 minute video of Trump's American Tech Council meeting with 18 tech execs, notably missing representation from Facebook, Twitter — Silicon Valley is taking a field trip to D.C. — This is “tech week” at the White House, and that means Silicon Valley's tech giants … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches Stream, its Office 365 business video service to replace Office 365 Video, integrated into many Microsoft services including SharePoint — Microsoft's replacement for Office 365 Video, a service known as Microsoft Stream, is beginning its phased roll-out globally.
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Twitch signs exclusive esports deal that includes 20 Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes events and in-game content for Twitch Prime members — If you're paying for Twitch Prime, you're going to be getting free stuff in Blizzard's biggest games thanks to a new deal between the two companies.
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| Mario Tomás Serrafero / xda-developers: |
OnePlus found to again manipulate benchmarks to maximize scores, this time with OnePlus 5; firm claims benchmark apps “run in a state similar to daily usage” — Our OnePlus 5 Review Unit manipulates benchmarks to maximize scores — Earlier this year, we published a report …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
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Tweets: @pierce, @oneplus, @dcseifert, and @mehedih_
| Lucian Constantin / The New Stack: |
“Stack Clash” memory management flaw found in Linux, BSD, Solaris, allows privilege escalation to root; patches are available — An important memory corruption defense in Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris can be bypassed by attackers to obtain root privileges and take complete control of affected systems.
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| Michael Liedtke / AP News: |
Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change” — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time …
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Tweets: @ceodonovan, @daveleebbc, @thadmoore, @rmc031, @caseynewton, and @ericnewcomer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal and Venmo now allow instant bank transfers, amid competition from Square Cash, Zelle, and Apple's P2P payments in iMessages for iOS 11 — PayPal announced this morning a plan to speed up money transfers between its service, Venmo and users' bank accounts for those with supported MasterCard and Visa debit cards.| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Video: Scott Forstall and early iPhone engineers talk about the iPhone's creation, its demonstration to Cingular/AT&T, and more at the Computer History Museum — Don't miss this. Seriously. — Highlights — Steve Jobs hated a guy at Microsoft who claimed their tablet PC …
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Facebook: Computer History Museum. Tweets: @eli_schiff, @phillfarrugia, @thesullivan, @aulia, @panzer, @ttam110, and @tim
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB launches Stitch, a new backend as a service product, and Mongo Charts, coming fall; says Atlas now runs on Microsoft Azure and Google's Cloud Platform — MongoDB is hosting its annual developer conference in Chicago this week and no good developer conference would be complete without a few product launches.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Intel discontinues compute modules Edison, Joule, and Galileo, plus Recon Jet Pro Plus eyewear for enterprise, the Recon Jet Pro, and Recon Jet — Intel has killed off several Internet of Things products it once hoped would keep it in the race for connected devices.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: BMC Software and CA consider combining companies to take CA private — New York-based CA has a market value of about $13.2 billion — BMC Software has been owned by Bain, Golden Gate since 2013 — BMC Software Inc. and CA Inc. are considering a potential deal …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
South Korean web host Nayana agrees to $1M extortion fee after 153 servers hit by ransomware, after negotiating the sum down from ~$1.6M — WannaCry only demanded $300 from each victim. These hackers extorted $1 million from one South Korean company. — Hackers appear to have pulled off …
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| Adam Samson / Financial Times: |
Adobe Q2 beats forecasts with record $1.77B revenue, up 26.7% YoY, as cloud software revenue hits $4.56B — Read next … Adobe on Tuesday added to its already hefty 2017 gains after the software maker unveiled a bigger-than-expected rise in quarterly sales that reflected continued progress …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
A look at AMD's future in servers with today's launch of its EPYC enterprise-class processors, with configurations up to 32 cores and 64 threads per processor — The big news out of AMD was the launch of Zen, the new high-performance core that is designed to underpin the product roadmap for the next few generations of products.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds Live video replays and says Stories has 250M DAUs as of June, whereas Snapchat only had 166M DAUs as of May — Instagram Stories is widening its lead over Snapchat and rolling out new features to keep everyone shooting video. Instagram Stories now has 250 million daily active users …
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Tweets: @danhoffmann and @instagram
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Khosla, Sam Altman, and a16z-backed Teespring, once valued at $650M, was valued at ~$11M in latest round — New financing dramatically cuts Teespring's valuation from $650 million as early investors Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures have stakes slashed to pennies on the dollar in the custom T-shirt marketplace.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Garage debuts Dictate, an add-in for Office that uses Cortana's speech recognition for dictation, competing with Nuance and Windows OS-level solutions — Dictate, a new project from Microsoft's experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using … Sponsor Posts
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