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ICYMI: Uber driver background checks failed to screen out sex offenders, a convicted murderer, etc., according to S.F. and L.A. district attorneys.
Same-day delivery trouble: Google Express shutting down delivery hubs in San Francisco and Mountain View, Recode reports.
Just so you know, the riskiest travel attractions in the world to use your mobile device, according to one security firm. Golden Gate Park is No. 4.
Twitter is opening up its mobile ad network to a wider group of marketers and rolling out video ads outside Twitter.
Tech workers make a lot of money but are less happy than most, according to one survey. (via USA Today)
Gartner report: Worldwide second-quarter smartphone sales show slowest growth since 2013. Also, Android market share fell slightly, while iOS rose.
Google leads $100 million funding round for Carbon3D, a 3D-printing startup.
Oracle buys Maxymiser, a market-testing software company.
OK, so we can all breathe easy now that Major League Baseball has said it isn t banning Apple Watch in the dugout.
It s a cruel world: Some applicants got fake emails saying they had been accepted into Y Combinator s new $12,000 fellowship program.
Coders gonna code, so why not watch them live online?
Progress on the Hyperloop front, including new partnerships and 400 team members working on the Elon Musk idea.
Photo: The Uber app shown on a smartphone. (Associated Press archives)
