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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap adds Snap Map to Snapchat, offering global view of friends' locations in Bitmoji form, accessed by zooming out of default camera view — Snapchat's next big feature wants to get you to meet up with friends in real-life rather than just watching each other's lives on your phones.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest updates its Lens camera app with zoom, tap to focus on an item, and improved camera roll support — Pinterest's camera search tool, Lens, is getting a makeover today with some updated including the ability to zoom in and out and tap to focus, and making it easier to search with Lens from photos they've already taken.
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| Spotify News: |
Spotify now lets users build group playlists with their friends in Facebook Messenger — Spotify is excited to introduce Group Playlists for Messenger, a new experience for creating playlists with friends on a messaging app they already know and love. — With Group Playlists for Messenger …
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| 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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| 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 …
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
SoftBank invests $100M in Boston-based cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which uses behavioral analytics to detect threats — Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in end-point detection and response to digital security breaches, on Wednesday announced it secured … | 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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| Gerry Doyle / New York Times: |
Toshiba says it's chosen a Japanese consortium to buy its microchip business, overlooking US-based Western Digital; full details of the deal expected next week — HONG KONG — As Toshiba, the embattled technology giant, battles for survival, it has turned to a group led by the Japanese government … | 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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| 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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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Rick and Jill Larson, owners of the studio at the center of the Netflix OITNB leak, reveal what happened when they were targeted by hackers, including extortion — Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent @jank0 … Larson Studios president Rick Larson and his wife and business partner … | 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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| Rachel King / Fortune: |
Etsy to layoff an additional 15% of its global workforce, totaling 22% or 230 jobs this year, expects to incur $12.5M-$16.8M severance charges, other exit costs — Etsy is reorganizing behind-the-scenes, which includes another reduction of 15% to its global workforce.
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Dailymotion relaunches video platform with a focus on premium content and four themes: news, sports, music, and entertainment — In an effort to make a fresh start, Dailymotion announced today that it is reinventing its video platform with a narrower focus and a new premium service that features quality over users' videos.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Uber and Lyft have spent up to $2.3M in '17 on lobbying to push for a Texas bill so they could reenter Austin after city rejected Prop 1 fingerprint initiative — The rival companies banded together and spent millions of dollars on political campaigns and state lobbying to get the ride-hailing law they wanted.| 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.| 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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