Here s what s on the Thursday menu.
U.K. panel: Facebook, Twitter, Google failing on extremism, should do more. (Bloomberg, BBC)
Sorry, Uber, Nutonomy beat you to it: World s first driverless taxis now being tested on the streets of Singapore. NuTonomy is an MIT spinoff.
Apple is working on a Snapchat-like video-editing app, Bloomberg reports.
Cheap as a bus? Uber is testing prepaid flat fares in San Francisco and elsewhere.
Sportswriter says a GIF of Aly Raisman — the Olympics had prohibited GIFs — got him permanently banned from Twitter.
One of the few things Amazon doesn t sell is cars, but it has launched Amazon Vehicles, a hub for car research and reviews.
Google asks Supreme Court to review patent case over anti-malware tools in its Chrome browser.
And Thiel Foundation grant helps start Legalist, which uses an algorithm to determine whether a lawsuit has a good chance of winning, helps fund it and takes half of the judgment.
Photo: An autonomous vehicle is parked in Singapore. The world s first self-driving taxis, operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup, started picking up passengers in Singapore Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. (AP/Yong Teck Lim)
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