Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers for dynamic pricing during demand surges
Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.
Source: smaller HTC Nexus will have 5-inch 1080p display, 4GB of RAM, 2770mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core 2.0GHz 64-bit CPU
It's that time everybody: Nexus season. While the last substantive pieces of Nexus information we could share popped up nearly two months ago …
Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version
Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate.
Apple clarifies differential privacy will be opt-in for iOS 10; data collected for user-added local dictionary words, emojis, deep links, lookup hints in notes
“Differential privacy” is Apple's way of collecting data without being totally creepy. — After years of touting itself …
In latest update, Oculus removes DRM that stopped Rift games from being played on HTC Vive, says it will not use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC anymore
News breaks not from official announcement, but from discovery by workaround dev. — What a difference an Internet uproar can make.
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime
For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
Source: Google is building a live support app with screen-sharing for Nexus devices
A long-standing gap in the Nexus device feature-set for “normal” buyers has been live on-device support. In the event you need help setting up your Nexus smartphone - a smartphone you bought on the i...
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products
Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. — Not in the martial arts—she's already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS
Finally Twitter will let you see tweets from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it's now rolling out t...
Facebook to Provide ‘Political Bias’ Training for Employees
Rob Bluey / The Daily Signal :
Facebook hires Kevin Lo, former general manager of Google Fiber, to join its connectivity team
Kevin Lo will help Facebook wheel and deal in its efforts to bring more people online. — Facebook has brought in Kevin Lo, the former general manager for Google Fiber …
Google's RankBrain machine learning system is now used to process every search query, up from processing less than 15% of the queries last year
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YouTube Red acquires its first big-budget Hollywood-produced series, based on dance drama Step Up from Lionsgate
Brooks Barnes / New York Times :
Qualcomm files a patent infringement lawsuit in China against Meizu
Ian King / Bloomberg :
YouTube announces live streaming is coming to its mobile app, available now for select creators, rolling out more broadly soon
a new chapter in YouTube's live stream Andy Orin / Lifehacker : YouTube Adds Live Streaming to Its Mobile App Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal : YouTube Will Soon Let You Stream Live Video ...
Twilio stock closes at $28.53, jumping more than 90% in first day of trading
but its CFO downplays it as just ‘gravy’ Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Twilio stock climbs more than 90 percent in opening day of IPO Renae Merle / Washington Post : The $200 million this CEO made today m...
Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car
Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. — My brain knows that this demonstration has been carefully stage...
Xiaomi struggles to expand abroad as its smartphone sales in China decline and ecosystem growth misses forecasts, making some question its $45B valuation
The “Apple of China” gets a reality check as its smartphone sales slump. … Xiaomi's tale may sound like merely another iteration … Tweets: @fortunemagazine , @fortunemagazine and @amitbhawani Tweets: ...
Facebook announces future updates to Live at VidCon: ability to go live with face filters from MSQRD, add a friend's stream to a broadcast, and schedule streams
Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch :
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Katherine Maher, earlier its Chief Communications Officer, as Executive Director
Wikimedia blog :
A look at the ethical and logistical issues of preserving social media for future reference
Jenna Wortham / New York Times :
BitTorrent Now ad-supported music and video streaming service launches on Android, with iOS and Apple TV apps coming soon
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget :
Amazon presenting engineers additional job offers at fast-growing divisions like AWS, Alexa when hiring managers from other Amazon divisions first make offers
Business Insider : Thanks: @mattrosoff
Cadre raised $68M over the past year and a half from Peter Thiel, Jack Ma, Yuri Milner, others for its real estate trading platform for high-wealth individuals
Alyson Shontell / Tech Insider : Thanks: @ajs
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