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As Uber board prepares to vote on CEO, Jeff Immelt says he's no longer in the running; sources say a large group on the board favors Meg Whitman — He just tweeted. — Former GE head Jeff Immelt has pulled out of the race to become Uber CEO and just tweeted his withdrawal from the process.
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| Joseph Marks / Defense One: |
Eight out of 28 of Trump's Homeland Security cybersecurity panel resign, citing “insufficient attention” to the issues, Charlottesville comments, more — Board members also condemned the president's response to racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.| Gareth Corfield / The Register: |
Germany's self-driving car ethics guidelines: prioritize human life over animals or property in accidents, don't choose whom to save based on age, and more — New auto rules approaching in the land of Das Auto — Germany's government has answered the car ethics question once and for all … | Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Facebook's “People You May Know” recommends a relative a reporter didn't know she had, raising privacy questions; Facebook, citing privacy, won't offer details — Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected.| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
A look at projects by Mozilla and Google to make large, open-source datasets containing crowdsourced voice samples available to developers — The voice-control platform wars are getting open sourced. — Flickr user Internet Archive] A voice-controlled virtual assistant-Siri, Alexa …
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Twitter CMO Leslie Berland is also taking over human resources as the new ‘Head of People’ — Plus, Twitter hired another HR exec from American Express, where Berland used to work. — Twitter has found someone to take over its top human resources role that's been empty for almost six months … | Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com invests ~$100M in Indonesian ride-hailing startup Go-Jek, which aims to raise up to $1B at a ~$2.5B pre-money valuation — HONG KONG (Reuters) - JD.com Inc has invested in Indonesian ride-hailing startup Go-Jek, people familiar with the matter told Reuters …
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Drones with AI-powered shark detection software to patrol Australian beaches; studies show humans are 20-30% accurate at spotting sharks, AI is ~90% accurate — SYDNEY (Reuters) - Drones equipped with a shark detection system powered by artificial intelligence will start patrolling … | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
How sports manager Rudy Cline-Thomas and his investment partner Andre Iguodala of the Golden State Warriors are helping athletes invest in tech — About three years ago, in February 2014, Andre Iguodala spent an off-day during the NBA season at the offices of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz …
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| Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal: |
Toutiao, a Chinese news aggregator that uses deep learning to tailor feeds to individual users, says it has 120M DAUs and made $900M revenue in 2016 — Apps that supply news streams tailored to individual users by algorithms are China's fastest-growing mobile segment
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Chrome team is experimenting with an option to permanently mute sound on specific websites — A lot of awful things can happen on the internet, but few are as terrible as landing on a website that automatically plays videos with sound. Thankfully, this is something Google is addressing in a future update to Chrome.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
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