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Sources: Uber board expected to vote on CEO today; Jeff Immelt and another candidate presented visions for the firm, but some members still favor Meg Whitman — Jeff Immelt and another candidate presented to directors, while Meg Whitman sat on the sidelines awaiting key smoke signals from the board.
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Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt says he is no longer vying to be Uber CEO — Former GE head Jeff Immelt has pulled out of the race to become Uber CEO. He just tweeted his withdrawal. Immelt is currently in Northern California and presented his vision for the car-haling giant yesterday.| 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.| James Redmayne / Reuters: |
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 … | 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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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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Microsoft's Lee Holmes on the company's recent efforts to bolster security of the PowerShell framework, which has long been a high-profile target for hackers — THE TRICKBOT MALWARE that targets bank customers. Password harvesters like Mimikatz. “Fileless malware” attacks.| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Uber abandons plans for new 380K square foot Oakland headquarters to cut costs and is exploring various options including a sale of the building — Uber has abandoned plans to move into a massive building in Oakland, California and is instead “exploring several options” for the site, including a sale.
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