Anything For You All: 10 things in tech you need to know today

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August 29, 2017

Good morning! Here is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

1. Uber employees are expressing support for their new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, on the anonymous chat app Blind. According to a poll on Blind, more than half — 57% — are feeling like Khosrowshahi was a good choice.

2. HPE CEO Meg Whitman said Uber has yet to deal with uncertainty over Travis Kalanick's future role at the company or come up with a needed new governance structure. Her comments were made in an interview with The Financial Times.

3. A startup created by ex-Google engineers is raising $40 million to make drones that fly themselves. The company is called Skydio.

4. Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has led a $10 million seed funding round into Berlin-based "InsurTech" startup Coya. The investment is one of the biggest seed funding rounds in Germany

5. Uber is pulling a heavily criticized feature from its app that allowed it to track riders for up to five minutes after a trip. The company's security chief announced the move to Reuters as the taxi app company tries to fix its poor reputation for customer privacy.

6. Facebook is further clamping down on fake news. The social media company has pledged to ban repeat offenders — those that repeatedly share stories marked as false — from advertising on its platform.

7. Apple CEO Tim Cook was awarded Apple shares worth $89.2 million. A regulatory filing shows he was awarded the shares because Apple stock outperformed at least two-thirds of businesses in the S&P 500 Index over three years.

8. Over a quarter of the members on Trump's cybersecurity advisory council have resigned en masse. The council is responsible for overseeing the US' response to emerging cyber threats.

9. Amazon has cut prices at Whole Foods after buying the supermarket chain this summer. Prices fell by as much as 43%.

10. Magic Leap has settled with former executives Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler, two computer vision experts who became embroiled in a legal battle after they left their jobs at the billion-dollar smartglasses startup. Details about the settlement are not public.