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Waymo now offers free taxi rides in fully driverless cars in Phoenix, plans for a paid taxi service; at first, most of the cars will have employee in back seat — Waymo's first product will be a driverless taxi service in the Phoenix area. — Driverless cars are here.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Major flaw in Parity multi-sig wallets, often used in ICOs, potentially freezes hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum — Today is not a good news day for Ethereum. A vulnerability found within a popular wallet has frozen potentially hundreds of millions of dollars … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google patches Wi-Fi KRACK flaw in Android, adds new saturated color display option in Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, releases fix for Pixel 2 “clicking” noise — It's also fixing the clicking problem on the Pixel 2 — The regular, monthly patches for the Pixel are one of the main reasons …
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Apple says no operations or investments moved from Ireland after 2015 corporate restructuring, changes in Ireland's tax laws did not reduce its tax payments — Apple believes every company has a responsibility to pay its taxes, and as the largest taxpayer in the world, Apple pays every dollar it owes in every country around the world.
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| BBC: |
Paradise Papers: Apple sought a secret shift to new tax haven of Jersey, after crackdown by European regulators of its Irish tax arrangement — The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
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| Nan Boden / Google: |
Google announces strategic partnership with Salesforce to better integrate G Suite with Salesforce's CRM software — Today, we announce a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership with Salesforce that spans Google Cloud and Google Analytics. The partnership will enable smarter, more collaborative experiences for our customers.| David Lumb / Engadget: |
Facebook launches closed beta of Customer Chat, a plugin for businesses to enable Messenger chats on company websites; works across multiple devices — While most of the billion-plus users on Facebook Messenger are individuals, the company has refined its messaging platform to be more business-friendly.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches $50 Fire TV Stick Basic Edition without Alexa for international users of its Prime video service in 100 markets — We're approaching one year since Amazon expanded its Prime video service to over 200 countries internationally, and today the company is doubling …
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| Olivia Solon / The Guardian: |
The rise of workplace surveillance: how employers are monitoring their staff's web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts, and private messaging — Employers are using a range of technologies to monitor their staff's web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts and even private messaging apps| DisplayMate: |
DisplayMate: iPhone X display has the best color accuracy of “any display we have ever tested”, top full screen brightness of OLED-equipped phones at 634 nits — Dr. Raymond M. Soneira President, DisplayMate Technologies Corporation Copyright © 1990-2017 by DisplayMate Technologies Corporation.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Resonance Audio, an open-source, cross-platform spatial audio SDK for VR, AR, games, and 360 video — As augmented reality slowly proliferates with the promise of bringing computer interaction into three-dimensional space, platform giants like Google are tasked with bringing every sense into 3D space, as well.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
French driverless vehicle company Navya extends autonomous shuttle tests in Las Vegas with free rides to the public over a half-mile loop in yearlong trial — Three stops on a 0.6-mile loop downtown — The city of Las Vegas is expanding its experiment with autonomous technology …
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Chinese internet company Tencent is developing its own autonomous driving technology, has created a prototype and begun testing internally — Tencent is said to have created an autonomous driving system — Tencent is competing with Google, Baidu, Tesla in the space
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