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Anti-diversity memo author James Damore confirms Google has fired him; Pichai tells employees that portions of his memo violated the company's Code of Conduct — Engineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture” — CEO Pichai said Google employee violated Code of Conduct
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HBO hackers demand a multimillion-dollar ransom, and release emails, scripts, and personal phone numbers of GoT stars in latest dump of stolen data — Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Didi Chuxing makes an undisclosed investment in Middle Eastern ride-hailing service Careem, which operates in 80 cities across 13 countries — A week after its first investment in Europe, Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is spreading its wings once again after it announced a financing deal …
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| Christopher M. Schroeder / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at how Middle Eastern startups are overcoming cultural and other barriers to tap into a growing local taste for tech, from bitcoin to digital publishing — At the end of March, it was announced that the largest e-commerce company in the Middle East and North Africa, Souq.com, would be acquired by Amazon for nearly $600 million.
Tweets: @sharmilaakarve and @techreview
| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
In email to employees, Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp says “Travis is not returning as CEO” — Camp sent an email to employees on Monday afternoon. — Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp told employees that the company's former CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Samson Mow / Fortune: |
Bitcoin Cash is an untested Bitcoin fork that is putting undue pressure on Bitcoin exchanges and wallet providers to support the currency — The newly created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a rushed spinoff of Bitcoin (BTC), a clonecoin of which there have been many in Bitcoin's past.
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Picture of alleged Google Pixel 2 developer unit leaks, shows front stereo speakers and the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack — A tipster sent us a photo of what's allegedly the Google Pixel 2. It's clearly an early dev unit with all those stickers on the back.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Firefox 55 update will add support for WebVR standard for viewing the web in VR, which Edge and Chrome already support, rolling out August 8 — Web browser developer Mozilla Corp. will bring VR viewing capabilities to its flagship product Firefox by default with its planned update Tuesday.| Brian Reigh / Android Authority: |
Photos of LG's unreleased V30 phablet leak in partner-run competition, showing small bezels and no secondary screen ticker that the previous models had — Not only can we see LG's upcoming phablet from every angle, but we also have photo and video samples from its dual-lens camera. — See also:
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| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
IBM touts improvement in scaling deep learning performance across servers, says its tech reached 95% efficiency across 64 servers housing 256 processors — The race to make computers smarter and more human-like continued this week with IBM IBM claiming it has developed technology …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
YouTube rolls out chat to all its Android and iOS users, includes group messaging for up to 30 users — YouTube today rolled out the ability to share videos with contacts directly in its mobile app for Android and iOS. Users can chat about shared videos using text, react with emoji …
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| Shirley Halperin / Variety: |
Sources: Tidal hires new CEO Richard Sanders, former president of music royalty collector Kobalt — Former Kobalt Music Group president Richard Sanders is the new CEO of Tidal, the Jay-Z-owned music streaming service launched in 2015, sources confirm to Variety.
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