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Uber settles Waymo lawsuit, pledges not to use Waymo's trade secrets; Waymo will receive 0.34% stake in Uber worth about $245M — Uber Technologies Inc. settled the high-stakes trade-secret theft lawsuit brought by Waymo, resolving a conflict that already cost the ride-hailing giant …
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Sources: Amazon is preparing to launch a delivery service, “Shipping with Amazon”, beginning in LA in coming weeks with third-party merchants — The company is preparing to begin the offering in Los Angeles with its ‘third-party merchants’ and then roll it out more broadly
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Sources in iPhone jailbreaking community describe how iBoot source code was leaked by low level Apple employee and say that more code has been stolen — On Wednesday, an anonymous person published the proprietary source code of a core and fundamental component of the iPhone's operating system.
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Sources: Waymo asked for $500M and outside monitor review of Uber's self-driving software to settle, Uber initially rejected the deal, agreed to reduced amount — Waymo won main goal to get outside review of Uber's software — New Uber leaders decided not to fight someone else's battle
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Russia arrests scientists who tried to mine Bitcoin on a supercomputer at a top-secret nuclear research facility where USSR's first atomic bomb was produced — Russian security officers have arrested several scientists working at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility for allegedly mining crypto-currencies.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
YouTube temporarily suspends ads on Logan Paul's channels citing “recent pattern of behavior”, after multiple controversial posts since the suicide victim video — It's only a temporary suspension though — Has controversial YouTuber Logan Paul changed? It seems YouTube doesn't think so.
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Getty Images signs an image licensing deal with Google, signaling a truce after filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the EU in April 2016 — Almost two years after filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google, Getty Images announced today that it has signed a licensing deal with the Silicon Valley giant.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
VLC 3.0 launches on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, Apple TV, Chrome OS, supports hardware decoding for 4K, 8K video, 360-degree video, more — VideoLAN today launched version 3.0 of its media player across all major desktop and mobile platforms: Windows (ARM, x86, x64) …
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Facebook confirms test of “downvote” button on some comments for users to give feedback to company, with options like “Offensive”, “Misleading”, “Off Topic” — How can Facebook promote meaningful interaction between users?
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| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Facebook will award $10M in grants to people creating and leading communities, with up to $1M grants for 5 leaders and $50K for 100 more — LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) launched a community leadership program on Friday that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people …
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Viacom to launch streaming service by September with content it has removed from Hulu, Netflix, is talking to US mobile carriers to distribute its TV channels — Viacom Inc. plans to launch an ad-supported streaming-video service by September that will offer shows and other content from across … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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