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In first appearance before Uber staff, Khosrowshahi says timeline for Uber IPO is 18-36 months, and he wants to bring in a chairman to be his partner on board — In first appearance before ride-hailing firm's employees, Dara Khosrowshahi says timeline for IPO between 18 to 36 months
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| JP Mangalindan / Yahoo! Finance: |
Leaked audio of Dara Khosrowshahi talking to Uber employees on his decision to become CEO, Daniel Ek's involvement, interactions with board members, more — The above video features audio of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick introducing his successor, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Nest unveils Thermostat E with a new design, a simpler interface, lower $169 price, and almost all the same features, shipping tomorrow — Nest is debuting a new version of its thermostat today, the first truly different model since the product was introduced in 2011.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sony launches $700 Xperia XZ1 and $600 XZ1 Compact smartphones with Snapdragon 835, Android 8.0 Oreo, and a camera with 3D-scanning and super slo-motion video — Snapdragon 835 and a new camera arrive for Sony's mainstream phones — Sony is today announcing the new Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact smartphones …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Hands-on with LG V30: the phone the G6 should have been, feels polished and focused with snappy performance, clean design, and is great for video shooting — Despite all its resources and technical know-how, LG has always felt like an also-ran in a race dominated by Apple and Samsung.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Instagram says some high-profile accounts have been breached, exposing phone numbers and email addresses via a bug in the API, now fixed — Instagram said at least one hacker was able to steal personal information from high-profile user accounts, blaming the breach on a bug in its system that has now been fixed.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Logitech unveils Craft keyboard with a customizable creative input dial, for Mac and Windows, available in October for $199.99 — Logitech's MX Master mouse has long been considered one of the best options out there for creative and professional users. And now the company is finally making …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Judge sends Benchmark's lawsuit against Travis Kalanick to arbitration, allowing the former Uber CEO to avoid a potentially damaging deposition — Kalanick will likely avoid a deposition and the case will proceed quietly and quickly. — A judge granted former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Garmin launches $299 Vivoactive 3 smartwatch with Garmin Pay and new sport profiles, and the $199 Vivosport and $199 Vivomove HR activity trackers — Another $300 smartwatch that wants to be the best high-end fitness device. — Ahead of this year's IFA conference, Garmin announced new additions to its Vivo family of wearables.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Profile of Aaron Cashatt, who used a known bug discovered by researchers in 2012 and $50 in hardware to compromise hotel room locks and commit 75+ robberies — ON A WARM Phoenix night five years ago, Aaron Cashatt walked down the red-carpeted hall of the second floor of a Marriott hotel …
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Sources: 17 automotive engineers left Apple for self-driving car startup Zoox after Apple pared back its autonomous car ambitions — Startup grabs specialists in areas like braking, suspension — Apple working on self-driving systems rather than its own car| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Andy Rubin apologizes for email, misconfigured as a group message, sent to Essential customers requesting personal info, like DOB, to which ~70 replied — There's a difference between scrappy and sloppy — Last night, some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received …
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Tweets: @essential, @meganmorrone, @snazzyq, @martinsfp, @robotodd, @essential, and @inafried
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Samsung's Gear Sport, which is rated waterproof to 50M, has a rotatable bezel and a slim, ergonomic design, but lacks cellular connectivity — There's a new smartwatch in Samsung's portfolio and its purpose is stated by its name: the Gear Sport.
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