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By Enrique Dans | Relevant technology-related news, curated daily by Enrique Dans (http://www.enriquedans.com)
How open source software will drive the future of auto innovations
Automotive companies are shifting from bending metal to bending bits. Soon they will be offering software and services to complement their manufactured metal.<p>As these companies become software-driven, open source will become a staple to drive innovation faster and more reliably. Today’s cloud is …
TransportationSelf-driving cars could cost America's professional drivers up to 25,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says
The full impact of self-driving cars on society is several decades away — but when it hits, the job losses will be substantial for American truck …
Goldman SachsThe inevitable rise of the robocops
<b>(CNN) —</b> Picture: A bleak dystopian future in which humanity is ruled by robots, suppressed by its own creation. Not an original thought, admittedly. Pop culture is filled with examples of robot overlords and android uprisings; of artificial intelligence gone bad.<p>But so far, few -- if any -- of …
Robots‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
SAN FRANCISCO — Evan Williams is the guy who opened up Pandora’s box. Until he came along, people had few places to go with their overflowing emotions and wild opinions, other than writing a letter to the newspaper or haranguing the neighbors.<p>Mr. Williams — a Twitter founder, a co-creator of …
How SoftBank and Saudi Arabia Settled Their Differences to Birth the World's Biggest Tech Fund
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. is poised to launch the world’s biggest technology fund as early as Saturday, capping months of arduous negotiations in which the tech giant haggled with the fund’s main Saudi investor over control of the money, investment strategy and questions about its commitment.<p>The …
Saudi ArabiaGoogle’s Perfect Future Will Always Be Just Around The Corner
As expected, the opening keynote of Google’s I/O 2017 developer conference was a doozy. For two and a half hours, CEO Sundar Pichai and a handful of …
Google HomeWelcome to the Next Phase of the Facebook Backlash
Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it’s hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage. The modern condition …
PrivacyInside Russia’s Social Media War on America
On March 2, a disturbing report hit the desks of U.S. counterintelligence officials in Washington. For months, American spy hunters had scrambled to …
RussiaBitcoin just surged past $2,000 for the first time
The world’s most popular cryptocurrency is now worth over $2,000 per coin. That’s according to a range of bitcoin exchanges, including Coinbase and Kraken. That valuation puts the total market cap of bitcoin — the total number of coins in circulation — at $32.92 billion.<p>Bitcoin has been on a tear …
CryptocurrencyUber’s string of controversies have seriously hurt its reputation, survey says
It hasn’t been the best year for Uber. And now it’s got something else to worry about — it’s reputation.<p>Already this year, the new-age taxi service …
UberTech stocks haven't been this hot since the dot-com bubble
Investors haven’t loved tech stocks this much since the height of the dot-com bubble.<p>The sector is on pace to absorb the most capital in 15 years, an …
StocksYour IT job is at risk if you currently do these things for a living
The spectre of layoffs looms large over the Indian information technology (IT) sector. Human resource firms estimate that up to two lakh industry jobs will be lost annually over the next three years. Talk of Indian techies abroad being laid off, increasing local hiring, and re-skilling is rife, too.<p>…
United NationsIBM Orders Its Remote Workers Back Into the Office
International Business Machines Corp. is giving thousands of its remote workers in the U.S. a choice this week: Abandon your home workspaces and relocate to a regional office—or leave the company.<p>The 105-year-old technology giant is quietly dismantling its popular decades-old remote work program to …
The WorkplaceAmericans no longer have to register non-commercial drones with the FAA
Surprisingly, the drone industry isn’t thrilled.<p>If you buy a new drone in the U.S. to fly non-commercially, you no longer have to register your drone with the Federal Aviation Administration, according to a decision issued today by a federal court in Washington, D.C.<p>The court ruled that the FAA’s …
DronesUber’s Future May Rely on Predicting How Much You’re Willing to Pay - Bloomberg
Uber drivers have been complaining that the gap between the fare a rider pays and what the driver receives is getting wider. After months of …
UberRobots could wipe out another 6 million retail jobs
Robots have already cost millions of factory jobs across the nation.<p>Next up could be jobs at your local stores.<p>Between 6 million to 7.5 million existing jobs are at risk of being replaced over the course of the next 10 years by some form of automation, according to a new study this week from by …
RobotsSome Silicon Valley techies are now obsessively tracking their blood sugar -- and they don't have diabetes
At Geoff Woo's nutrition supplement start-up Nootrobox, almost every employee tracks their blood sugar levels throughout the day.<p>To his knowledge, …
Apple CEO Tim Cook test-drove a device that tracks his blood sugar, hinting at Apple's interest in the space
Tim Cook has been spotted at the Apple campus test-driving a device that tracks blood sugar, which was connected to his Apple Watch.<p>A source said …
AppleA big fine for Facebook reveals a fundamental problem with how it reports user numbers
In one of the largest penalties levied against it (paywall), Facebook was hit with a €110 million ($122 million) fine by the European Commission today for providing “misleading information” over its ability to match its users with WhatsApp’s users when it acquired the chat platform in 2014.<p>At the …
FacebookUber launches Uber Freight, its app for long-haul trucking jobs
Available on iOS and Android<p>Video: Uber/Aether Films<p>After getting a peek from Travis Kalanick earlier this month, Uber today officially launched Uber Freight, the company’s new service that will match truckers with companies who need cargo shipped across the country.<p>Uber Freight has its own app, of …
UberWhy Amazon is eating the world
I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress. But the past month was a bit different — our industry (retail) is going through a transformation.<p>Instead of just writing about our “internal” news, I wrote about the …
AmazonOne Step Closer to a Closed Internet
<i>Today, the FCC voted on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal and replace net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. The verdict: to move forward</i> …
Facebook fined $122 million for misleading EU over WhatsApp deal
Facebook says it couldn't automatically match WhatsApp accounts; EC disagrees.<p>Facebook has been smacked with a €110 million fine by the antitrust …
PrivacyYou won’t believe why Facebook will block this headline
Updates to news feed algorithms tweaked to catch spammy and deceptive headlines.<p>Facebook on Tuesday rolled out new changes to its algorithms that …
FacebookIn A Driverless Future, Uber And Lyft Will Sit In The Passenger Seat
Car manufacturers are poised to take the driver’s seat if autonomous cars scale.<p>Waymo and Lyft’s deal to put autonomous cars on the road is a piping hot drama amid Google and Uber’s legal battle over intellectual property (Waymo is Google’s driverless car division). But this feud may be cold, …
TransportationThe “Amazon Of Fish” Wants To Get Americans Eating More Seafood
FultonFishMarket.com delivers fresh fish from a New York City warehouse to anywhere in America in less than a day. Can it change American’s relationship with sustainable fish?<p>At midnight, the shore of Hunts Point–where the Bronx meets the East River–comes alive. Crew unload up to a million pounds …
FishAmazon Music says it doesn’t want to become a record label
Amazon Music Vice President Steve Boom shot down the idea that Amazon’s music arm would become its own record label at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. It’s a question that he gets a lot, Boom told TechCrunch’s Josh Constine, largely in part because of Amazon Studios, the company’s television and film …
AmazonAre a third of car owners really ready to give up their rides?
There is no question that the automotive industry is evolving at a rapid pace. Electric cars are on the rise, and a whole new world of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles are starting to appear on roadways around the world.<p>A recent Cars Online report released by Capgemini sheds light on where …
TransportationFacebook feed change fights clickbait post by post in 9 more languages
Facebook’s leverage over news publishers can be worrisome, but today it’s putting its muscle to good use. The social network is bringing its battle against clickbait abroad, getting more precise about which link headlines it downranks in News Feed, and starting to demote individual posts instead of …
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