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Uber employees worry about self-driving cars and their stock options, an anonymous app shows

BusinessInsider.com 

REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Uber employees are apparently worried about the future of the company after self-driving cars become a real thing, and about the kind of money employees can make in a presumed IPO.

That's according to snippets of conversations sent to us from an Uber employee who likes to chat about the company via an anonymous app called Blind.

For instance, after news broke earlier this month that Uber's first self driving fleet is arriving in Pittsburgh this month, Uber employees took to Blind to chat about it. Читать дальше...

This is how good the new 'Madden' game looks

BusinessInsider.com 

As video game consoles get more and more powerful, the line between what's real and what isn't in sports games gets increasingly blurry. We're at the point where each stadium is lovingly realized, each uniform's cloth moves in the wind, and each athlete's sweat drips realistically. 

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The Lions made a call about Barkevious Mingo, allowing them to gloat

NBCSports.com 

The Browns weren’t just able to chisel a fifth-round pick out of someone they might have cut anyway because they’re so shrewd. There was actually interest in Barkevious Mingo from others as well. According to Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network, the Lions also placed a call before the Browns sent their 2013 first-rounder to…



Man charged in state park shooting in southern Minnesota

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) — Prosecutors charged a 26-year-old man with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of another man at a state park in southern Minnesota, discounting his claim of self-defense.

Arkansas Medical Marijuana Update: Group Wants Supreme Court To Block Votes Allowing Legal Weed For November Ballot

International Business Times 

Arkansans hoping to vote for legalized medical marijuana may be waiting even longer than they already have if a group of non-supporters have it their way. Arkansans for Compassionate Care, one of the many groups that have been pushing to get legalized marijuana passed into Arkansas state law, recently caught a break when they’re latest proposal for medical marijuana was finally accepted on the November ballot.

Turkey sends more tanks to Syria, insists on Kurdish retreat

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey sent more tanks into northern Syria on Thursday and gave Syrian Kurdish forces a week to scale back their presence near the Turkish border, a day after it launched a U.S.-backed cross-border incursion to establish…

Turkey sends more tanks to Syria, insists on Kurdish retreat

«TDN» (tdn.com) 

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey sent more tanks into northern Syria on Thursday and gave Syrian Kurdish forces a week to scale back their presence near the Turkish border, a day after it launched a U.S.-backed cross-border incursion to establish…

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U of Chicago commits to no safe spaces, trigger warnings

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CHICAGO — Incoming freshmen at the University of Chicago have received a letter from the dean of students informing them of the school’s commitment to free speech. Dean of Students Jay Ellison writes that the university does not condone safe spaces where students can “retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.” He


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