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Uber has stopped its self-driving pilot in SF after the DMV revoked its cars’ registrations

Uber launched its pilot without DMV approval last week.

The U.S. just dumped Alibaba back on its ‘notorious’ counterfeit markets blacklist

It’s a real setback for the Chinese e-commerce giant.

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Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving company, is in talks to partner with Honda

The two companies are beginning formal discussions to outfit Honda vehicles with Waymo’s self-driving technology.

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After failing to strike a new deal, Nokia is suing Apple for patent infringement

Could the former phone giant be turning into a patent troll?

There have now been over 540,000 electric vehicles sold in the U.S.

That’s according to a report published by EV charging network ChargePoint.

Here are all the Twitter executives who flew the coop in 2016

There were a lot of them.

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Peter Thiel is almost definitely behind this mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ course

Earlier this year, the Berkeley Institute, a private academic institution, listed a seminar on “Heterodox Science.” The seminar was first scheduled to begin in November, then moved to January. On the Institute’s website, the instructor of the...

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Uber just added Snapchat filters and friend locators to its app

Last month, Uber unveiled a totally redesigned and streamlined version of its app that featured a cleaner interface and way less confusion around which service to request. The company also promised to add a couple of new things: a Snapchat filter...

Mossberg: My tech report card for 2016

It was a hit-and-miss year.

Apple has extended its USB dongle discounts through March

The temporary price cut is an effort to calm criticism over the lack of ports on the new MacBook Pro.

Instagram is still growing quickly and now has 600 million users

That’s 100 million new users in just six months.

Amazon’s deal to put an Echo in all Wynn Las Vegas hotel rooms is a brilliant marketing move

Hotel partnerships just make too much sense.

Apple is promoting the heck out of its Super Mario Run exclusive, which launches tomorrow

Don’t forget, Apple gets $3 for every copy that Nintendo sells.

The best tech reporting of 2016

It’s been a hard year. Here’s some good reading.

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macOS is becoming legacy software

Everything that Apple did, and didn’t do, with its Mac lineup this year tells me the company would rather be selling more iPads and iPhones. The departures from the 2016 MacBook Pro — MagSafe charger, USB and memory card slots, and a keyboard with...

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Super Mario Run was downloaded a record 40 million times in its first four days

Nintendo’s first proper smartphone game has proved to be a huge hit. According to the company, Super Mario Run was downloaded more than 40 million times in its first four days of availability on iOS, breaking the App Store record for number of...

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Literally sticking Apple AirPods in your ear is one way to stop them from falling out

Are your wireless Apple AirPods already falling out of your ears? Are you trying to commit to Apple's glorious proprietary future, but keep having to fork out for single earbuds to hear the other half of your music? You could go back to the...

Recode Daily: Twitter is losing two more top execs

The churn continues.

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EU says UK surveillance laws are illegal and not ‘justified within a democratic society’

The European Union has ruled that the “general and and indiscriminate” collection of computer data by governments is only permitted when used to fight serious crime. The decision, handed down today by the European Court of Justice, directly...

Hell is Silicon Valley people who won’t grow up

Serious times call for serious people, people!

The White House says the U.S. will need a stronger social safety net to help workers displaced by robots

Advances in automation and robotics may one day leave millions of Americans out of work.

Facebook is rolling out live audio broadcasts

It’s like the radio, but on Facebook.

Platforms must take responsibility for fake news, Tom Friedman says

And if they don’t? “That is bullshit” and they should be shamed, the New York Times columnist adds on Recode Decode.

Full transcript: Foursquare’s CEO Jeff Glueck and co-founder Dennis Crowley on Recode Decode

It’s all about “location intelligence.”

Why Margaret Sullivan left the public editor job at the New York Times

"You need to be an outsider" to report on the Times, Sullivan says on the latest Recode Media.

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Congressional group says backdoor laws would do more harm than good

Today, the House Judiciary Committee’s Encryption Working Group released its year-end report — and the result is good news for technology companies. While the report doesn’t explicitly rule out encryption legislation, it lands firmly on the side...

Twitter CTO Adam Messinger is leaving the company

Another exec is out at Twitter.

TellApart CEO Josh McFarland is leaving Twitter for VC firm Greylock

Twitter bought TellApart roughly 18 months ago for more than $500 million.

Facebook is rolling out live audio broadcasts

It’s like the radio, but on Facebook.

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Orlando shooting victims’ families sue Twitter, Facebook, and Google over ISIS propaganda

Family members of three people killed during the June attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub are suing Facebook, Twitter, and Google, arguing that the three companies allowed the spread of ISIS internet propaganda that radicalized shooter Omar...

7-Eleven beats Google and Amazon to the first regular commercial drone delivery service in the U.S.

The convenience store chain has partnered with drone maker Flirtey for the ongoing trial.

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Twitter will hand over data on the user who sent a seizure-inducing tweet to a journalist

Four days ago, an unidentified Twitter user tweeted a seizure-inducing animation at Newsweek and Vanity Fair writer Kurt Eichenwald, who has epilepsy. Now, Eichenwald has taken the first step toward identifying the user. In response to a civil...

Apple has extended its USB dongle discounts through March

The temporary price cut is an effort to calm criticism over the lack of ports on the new MacBook Pro.

LG’s fancy 5K monitor for Apple has been delayed by a bit

The 27-inch display is a replacement for the models Apple used to sell under its own name.

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Artificial intelligence is going to make it easier than ever to fake images and video

Smile Vector is a Twitter bot that can make any celebrity smile. It scrapes the web for pictures of faces, and then it morphs their expressions using a deep-learning-powered neural network. Its results aren’t perfect, but they’re created...

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Apple AirPods review: wireless that wows, earbuds that don't

Wireless is the future." That’s how Apple CEO Tim Cook justified removing the headphone jack from the newest line of iPhones. You won’t need a headphone jack in the future, Cook argued, because wires will be a thing of the past. To back up that...

Arianna Huffington’s new store wants to help you break your phone addiction

Thrive Global’s Manhattan pop-up is open through January 15.

Amazon’s Echo is still mostly out of stock in the week leading up to Hanukkah and Christmas

When is too much demand a bad thing?

Diversity in tech too often means ‘hiring white women.’ We need to move beyond that.

A company dominated by men hiring women from similar racial and socioeconomic backgrounds is not diversity in a meaningful sense.

How Alibaba deployed Big Data to combat China IPR pirates and counterfeiters

The Chinese e-commerce giant describes how its Operation “Cloud Sword” led to the arrest of more than 300 suspected counterfeit gang members in 164 investigations.

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EU says Facebook misled it over its WhatsApp data-sharing policy

The European Commission has accused Facebook of providing “incorrect or misleading information” in the run-up to its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014. Information requested by the Commission is used to vet large mergers and takeovers,...

Recode Daily: Uber is headed for a $3 billion loss this year

Revenue is expected to top $5.5 billion.