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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 …
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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| Olivia Solon / The Guardian: |
How employers are increasingly monitoring their staff's web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts, and private messaging using third-party tools — Employers are using a range of technologies to monitor their staff's web-browsing patterns, keystrokes, social media posts and even private messaging apps
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| David Lumb / Engadget: |
Facebook launches closed beta of Customer Chat, a plugin for businesses to enable Messenger chats on company websites that 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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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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| Facebook: |
Facebook expands its peer-to-peer Messenger payments tool to the UK and France, the first expansion since p2p payments launched in US in 2015 — Today we're adding one of the most requested features in Messenger to two new countries by introducing peer-to-peer payments to people in the UK and France.
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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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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
GOP tax bill, still in early stages, includes a big break for employees of privately held startups, would allow tax to be deferred on exercised stock options — House Republicans may win some new fans in Silicon Valley, with a new tax proposal that would help employees of highly valued startups that have not yet gone public.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing an AirDrop competitor, file manager, and cleanup utility for Android called Files Go, which reportedly will launch globally in December — Google is preparing to soon launch a new mobile app called Files Go that will allow Android users to better manage the files on their phone …
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