Sources: Uber's autonomous cars struggled with goal of 13 miles before driver intervention; Waymo says its cars had average of ~5.6K miles between interventions
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self-driving car operated …
Samsung says it is investigating user reports about Galaxy S9 and S9+ touchscreen responsiveness issues
Tonight Samsung has responded to growing reports of Galaxy S9/S9+ phones with touchscreen problems. Android Police points to a few threads on Reddit and Samsung's own support forums …
Eighteen investigators, including some from the UK's Information Commissioner's Office, raid Cambridge Analytica's London offices after search warrant granted
Officials raid firm's London offices amid allegations it may have illegally acquired data
Elon Musk removes Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages after tweetstorm, but leaves their Instagram accounts, saying Instagram is “probably ok”
During a mid-afternoon tweetstorm, Elon Musk deleted both of his companies' Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers.
A week after Cambridge Analytica and despite #deletefacebook, Facebook app installs did not drop, no big advertisers quit, and analysts recommend buying the dip
As Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal spiraled into chaos this week, a frantic hail of notes from Wall Street analysts …
Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency and has begun emailing users who interacted with them; accounts were ID'd and deleted last fall
Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections.
Analysis shows how onboard sensors should have detected the pedestrian before fatal Uber autonomous car collision and why attentive safety drivers are important
The Tempe police released the poor quality video from the Uber. What looks like a dash-cam video along with a video of the safety driver.
Sources: Facebook has been contacting ad agencies and trade bodies to reassure them that customer data is being protected in light of Cambridge Analytica news
Social-media giant plans marketing outreach to reassure users of safety on its platform and prevent more advertisers from dropping out
Four lawsuits against Facebook by its users and shareholders have been filed in federal courts so far after Cambridge Analytica revelations
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Dropbox closes up 36% on first day of trading after raising $756M in its IPO and is now valued at $11B+
Dropbox was off to the races on its first day as a public company. — After pricing above the range at $21 per share, raising $756 million, Dropbox kicked off its first day soaring to $31.60, and clo...
Inside Amazon's third annual MARS conference, an invite-only event that brings together experts in AI, home automation, and robotics
Amazon's “summer camp for geeks” brought together some of the world's leaders in AI, home automation, robotics, and space exploration. And, naturally, a robotic dog.
Sources on how Cambridge Analytica milked Mercer-backed GOP candidates, including Cruz campaign, which paid $5.8M and compared the firm to a Ponzi scheme
The secretive data firm said it could move the minds of American voters. That wasn't its real victory. — Looking for news you can trust? Tweets: @clarajeffery , @clarajeffery , @mattkmoore , @persu...
India's Reliance to merge its JioMusic with music streaming platform Saavn, creating an entity valued at $1B+, with JioMusic's implied valuation of $670M
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Reports: Google is warning developers to include prominent crash reporting disclosures in apps or face removal
There's been an uptick among Android developers receiving warnings from the Google Play team. The issue appears to be crash reporting, which is a common feature developers build into apps.
Pivotal, a cloud computing software and consulting services provider that has raised $1.7B since its spin out from EMC and VMware in 2012, files for an IPO
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US DoJ charges nine Iranians and an Iranian company with hacking parts of US government, UN, and hundreds of universities in the US and around the world
specifically the IRGC. They stole more than 31 terabytes of data from 140 American universities, 30 American companies, 5 American agencies, & 176 universities worldwide. http://www.justice.gov/... ht...
Filings: Snap acquired PlayCanvas last year; founded in 2011, PlayCanvas develops tech to power casual games and VR experiences in browsers and has raised $540K
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Blockchain startup Everledger, which tracks the provenance of high-value assets like diamonds to help prevent fraud, raises $10.4M Series A
Sian Bradley / UKTN :
Huawei elects new board in first reshuffle since 2012, replacing its rotating CEO system with a rotating chairman system and keeping Ren Zhengfei as CEO
About 2M Spotify users, or 2.3% of users of its free service, are avoiding ads via modified apps or accounts, according to Spotify's IPO filing
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How the toxic working culture at Telltale Games, known for narrative-based video game adaptations of popular franchises, drove away the studio's best developers
not just gameplay mechanics, but tone, the types of characters we chose to use — to his taste. This was one of the biggest issues with him as a CEO: he was pretty convinced that his taste was everyone...
Telegram announces it has surpassed 200M MAUs, after passing 100M MAUs in February 2016
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Sources: Google to offer reconfigured version of its Classroom app, which is free for educational institutions, to businesses as part of G Suite
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