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Tesla says Autopilot was engaged during fatal Model X crash on Mar. 23, and the driver didn't respond to warnings to take control of the car before the crash — After a fatal accident involving a Tesla Model X that caught on fire after the crash came under investigation …
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| Google Devs / Google Developers Blog: |
Google is shutting off URL shortener goo.gl to new users next month and will shut it down for all users next year; existing links will continue to redirect — Posted by Michael Hermanto, Software Engineer, Firebase — We launched the Google URL Shortener back in 2009 as a way to help people …
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Amazon updates Video Skill API so Alexa can start recordings, launch apps, and carry out playback commands on set-top boxes; Dish and others are building skills — Alexa's ability to control DVRs is going to improve in the near future. Amazon announced today that it's updated its Video Skill API …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Accelerating and increasingly damaging leaks show Facebook's crumbling internal morale, which could be more pressing than threats like regulation or user exodus — These kinds of leaks didn't happen when I started reporting on Facebook eight years ago. It was a tight-knit cult convinced … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Drupal devs warn of remote code execution vulnerability affecting ~1M sites running Drupal 6, 7, or 8, call it “highly critical” and urge immediate patching — A dangerous Drupal flaw could leave your site completely compromised if you don't patch the flaw immediately.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Pr0gramm, the image hosting community behind Coinhive software that hijacks browsers to mine cryptocurrency, donates $250K+ to cancer research after exposé — A story published here this week revealed the real-life identity behind the original creator of Coinhive … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
How open sourcing Netscape Communicator in 1998 and the creation of Mozilla, a gamble at the time, paved the way for the now-mainstream embrace of the practice — A gamble 20 years ago unleashed the source code for the browser that became Firefox. The approach is now core to Facebook, Google and everyone else.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches uberBODA in Uganda, its first motorcycle service in Africa, as Taxify starts similar service in Uganda and Kenya — Global ride-hailing rivals Taxify and Uber have launched motorcycle passenger service in East Africa. Customers of both companies in Uganda and Taxify riders …
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Cobalt Robotics raises $13M Series A from Sequoia Capital, Storm Ventures, and Founders Fund for its roving robotic security guard — - Sequoia Capital, Storm Ventures and Founders Fund are among investors in a $13 million venture funding round for Cobalt Robotics.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Latest Microsoft reorganization proves it has moved beyond Windows, with cloud and AI as the fundamental core Microsoft is betting its future on — Cloud and AI are Microsoft's future bets — “We want to move from people needing Windows to choosing Windows, to loving Windows.| Reuters: |
Customs officers in Shenzhen arrested a gang that smuggled ~$80M worth of iPhones from Hong Kong to mainland China using drones — BEIJING (Reuters) - Customs officers in southern China's technology hub Shenzhen busted a group of criminals using drones to smuggle 500 million yuan ($79.8 million) …
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Tweets: @casey_lau and @efeng
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber is shutting down UberRUSH, its on-demand business delivery service for items weighing less than 30 pounds, ending services on June 30 — Uber is closing the doors on its on-demand package delivery service for merchants, RUSH, in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago, TechCrunch has learned.
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