Anti-diversity memo author James Damore confirms Google has fired him; Pichai tells employees that portions of his memo violated the company's Code of Conduct
Engineer wrote memo blasting “politically correct monoculture” — CEO Pichai said Google employee violated Code of Conduct
HBO hackers demand a multimillion-dollar ransom and release emails, scripts, and personal phone numbers of GoT stars in latest dump of stolen data
Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online
In email to employees, Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp says “Travis is not returning as CEO”
Camp sent an email to employees on Monday afternoon. — Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp told employees that the company's former CEO Travis Kalanick …
Didi Chuxing makes an undisclosed investment in Middle Eastern ride-hailing service Careem, which operates in 80 cities across 13 countries
A week after its first investment in Europe, Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is spreading its wings once again after it announced a financing deal …
Sources: Uber plans to close or sell most of its US car-leasing division to stem unsustainably high losses, just two years after starting the business
Move by the ride-hailing company is due to unsustainably high losses — Uber Technologies Inc. plans to wind down its U.S. subprime car-leasing division …
Picture of alleged Google Pixel 2 developer unit leaks, shows front stereo speakers and the lack of a 3.5mm headphone jack
A tipster sent us a photo of what's allegedly the Google Pixel 2. It's clearly an early dev unit with all those stickers on the back.
IBM touts improvement in scaling deep learning performance across servers, says its tech reached 95% efficiency across 64 servers housing 256 processors
The race to make computers smarter and more human-like continued this week with IBM IBM claiming it has developed technology …
Facebook has killed Lifestage, the Snapchat-like dedicated social networking app for high schoolers it had released last year
Facebook has killed Lifestage, the standalone app it released almost one year ago as a dedicated social network for high schoolers.
Firefox 55 update will add support for WebVR standard for viewing the web in VR, which Edge and Chrome already support, rolling out August 8
Web browser developer Mozilla Corp. will bring VR viewing capabilities to its flagship product Firefox by default with its planned update Tuesday.
Israeli lidar tech startup Oryx Vision raises $50M Series B led by Third Point Ventures and WRV
Israeli startup Oryx Vision has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Third Point Ventures and WRV to help continue to develop and commercialize its innovative LiDAR tech …
Bitcoin Cash is an untested Bitcoin fork that is putting undue pressure on Bitcoin exchanges and wallet providers to support the currency
The newly created Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a rushed spinoff of Bitcoin (BTC), a clonecoin of which there have been many in Bitcoin's past. Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : The clearest thin...
Foursquare revamps its Swarm app to be less of a game and more of a travel journal
The check-in app is moving away from games and leaderboards — Swarm, the check-in app from social mainstay Foursquare, is pivoting once again. Foursquare is calling Swarm's latest incarnation the …
A look at how Middle Eastern startups are overcoming cultural and other barriers to tap into a growing local taste for tech, from bitcoin to digital publishing
Christopher M. Schroeder / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @sharmilaakarve and @techreview Tweets: Sharmila Karve / @sharmilaakarve : “Over 25% of startups in the Arab world are founded or led by wom...
Intel finalizes specs of Core i9-7980XE: 18-cores, 2.6GHz clock speed with 4.4GHz Turbo Boost, 24.75MB L3 Cache, 165W TDP; priced at $1999, ships September 25
and Threadripper is faster (sometimes) Devindra Hardawar / Engadget : Intel's 18-core chip was a risk. It will probably pay off. Kevin Parrish / Digital Trends : Early benchmarks pit AMD Ryzen Threadr...
France to propose new rules for “real taxation” of tech firms operating in the EU next month, encouraging Germany and others to work with them
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Photos of LG's unreleased V30 phablet leak in partner-run competition, showing small bezels and no secondary screen ticker that the previous models had
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Siemens to patch medical PET scanners running Windows 7 by the end of month, following last week's DHS notice about available exploits
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters :
19 brands in over a dozen categories sold on Amazon with no up front indication Amazon owns them, oftentimes alongside Amazon's generic house brands
Mike Murphy / Quartz :
Sam Altman's project The United Slate aims to help elect ~5 candidates in California aligned with its 10 left-leaning policy goals but isn't set up as a PAC
William Turton / The Outline : Thanks: @williamturton
Sources: Tidal hires Richard Sanders, former president of music royalty collector Kobalt, as its CEO
Shirley Halperin / Variety :
Twilio reports Q2 revenue of $95.9M, up 49% YoY, vs $86.2M est., and beats expectations with a net loss of $7.2M; stock up 7%+
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
YouTube rolls out chat to all its Android and iOS users, includes group messaging for up to 30 users
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Instagram tests letting you add a guest to your Live video, rolling out as a trial today with a full release expected in the coming months
Madeline Buxton / Refinery29 :
Facebook launches “Dynamic Ads for Real Estate”, targeted real estate ads for Facebook and Instagram, challenging Zillow
Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire :
Pinterest launches video ads for both search results and feeds, rolling out for all advertisers, with measurement partners Moat and Nielsen on board
Lauren Johnson / Adweek : Thanks: @jamiefavazza
US appeals court rules against patent troll Personal Audio, affirming its podcasting patent is invalid
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Tech firms rethink products, expecting the next billion internet users to prefer voice, video, and images to text given lower literacy rates in developing areas
Eric Bellman / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsjindia , @tarabluesky , @sub8u , @caro_milanesi , @mhbergen , @wsj , @cpearl42 , @wsjbusiness , @philizzo , @ericbellmanwsj , and @natbullard Tweets: W...
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