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Senin, 28 November 2016

10 things in tech you need to know today

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November 28, 2016

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Good morning! Here's the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. Stripe, the US fintech firm founded by two Irish brothers, is now worth more than $9 billion. The payments company, which has been backed by early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, raised $150 million in a new funding round.

2. Instagram hasn't started sending people notifications when you screenshot their public photos. There was a rumour going round that it had.

3. San Francisco's transport network was hacked. People in the city were able to travel for free on buses and trams over the weekend as a result.

4. Samsung is reportedly considering whether to split itself in two. That's according to an article from Seoul Economic Daily.

5. DeepMind has hired AI safety experts to protect us from dangerous machines. The Alphabet-owned AI lab is building computer systems that can learn and think for themselves.

6. Uber is going to court in Europe. The Californian taxi-hailing company will seek to convince Europe's top court that it is a digital service, not a transport company.

7. Tesla is hiring augmented reality experts who worked on Microsoft HoloLens. It's possible that Tesla is working on an in car heads-up display.

8. Silicon Valley Bank is considering whether to remove names from job candidates' résumés in a bid to prevent unconscious bias from its recruiters. The bank offers a range of financial services tailored towards technology and life science businesses.

9. Voice search has created a huge vulnerability at the heart of Google's business. The company has traditionally relied on screens to sell ads.

10. Hundreds of American Uber drivers are joining nationwide workers' protests for better pay. The protests will take place on Tuesday.

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