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Good morning! Here is the tech news you need to know this Wednesday. 1. Uber wants to test its network of flying taxi planes by 2020. The company said electric planes could ferry passengers at 150mph through urban skies to their destinations. 2. Google cofounder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin is secretly building a massive zeppelin in Hangar 2 of the NASA Ames Research Center. That's according to Bloomberg's Ashlee Vance, who says a giant metal skeleton is already in place. 3. Alphabet CEO Larry Page was thrust into the center of the high-profile legal drama involving Google, Uber and self-driving cars. At issue is a conversation that Page may, or may not, have had with Anthony Levandowski, the self-driving car pioneer who is accused of taking technology he worked on while at Google and bringing it to Uber. 4. Google's Waymo is letting ordinary people test its self-driving cars in Arizona. Hundreds of families in Phoenix will be involved. 5. Rocket Internet, the Berlin-headquartered startup factory, reported losses of €741.5 million ($807.3 million) for 2016. Several companies in its portfolio are struggling to become profitable. 6. An Irish employee at Stripe was denied entry to the US because he went to Somalia. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison tweeted about the situation. 7. An Uber engineer committed suicide, and his widow is blaming Uber's stressful work culture as the cause, according to a new report from Carolyn Said at The San Francisco Chronicle. Zecole Thomas told the Chronicle that her husband, Joseph Thomas, "wasn't himself" after he joined Uber. 8. Some Tesla factory workers are accusing the company of illegally suppressing employees' attempts to unionize at its Fremont manufacturing plant. The United Auto Workers and three Tesla employees have each filed separate charges with the National Labor Relations Board. 9. Apple has delayed the release of "Carpool Karaoke" on Apple Music. It was supposed to launch in April, but an Apple spokesperson told Reuters that "Carpool Karaoke: The Series will premiere on Apple Music later this year." 10. Thieves reportedly stole $24,000 worth of Apple products from an Apple Store. The same store was robbed just months ago. |
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