Saturday, July 22, 2017

Top Stories of the Day // July 22, 2017

Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal is leaving | Silent Echo lets you chat with Alexa over Slack | What it’s like to ship yourself overnight on Cabin’s sleep pod bus | Why the future of deep learning depends on finding good data | SoFi loses another senior executive, as chief revenue officer Michael Tannenbaum departs | Graphcore’s AI chips now backed by Atomico, DeepMind’s Hassabis | SF city attorney seeks court order to force Lyft and Uber to hand over driver data |
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SATURDAY, JULY 22 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Matthew Lynley

Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal is leaving

Aditya Agarwal, who came to Dropbox via its acquisition of Cove way back in 2012 and was given the CTO role last year, will be leaving the company. Agarwal held... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Silent Echo lets you chat with Alexa over Slack

Want to chat with Alexa via Slack? A new bot called Silent Echo now makes that possible. The idea is that there are times when you want to interact with... Read More…
Megan Rose Dickey

What it’s like to ship yourself overnight on Cabin’s sleep pod bus

Last weekend, I traveled from San Francisco to Los Angeles roundtrip on Cabin. When I arrived to the bus pickup location in San Francisco, a smiley attendant... Read More…
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Why the future of deep learning depends on finding good data

In the second part of our "A Mathless Guide to Neural Networks," we'll take a look at why high-quality, labeled data is so important, where it comes from, how... Read More…
Ryan Lawler

SoFi loses another senior executive, as chief revenue officer Michael Tannenbaum departs

Online finance startup SoFi has lost yet another senior executive, TechCrunch has learned. Chief revenue officer Michael Tannenbaum is the latest exec to leave,... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

Graphcore’s AI chips now backed by Atomico, DeepMind’s Hassabis

Is AI chipmaker Graphcore out to eat Nvidia's lunch? Co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon laughs at that interview opener -- perhaps because he sold his previous... Read More…
Megan Rose Dickey

SF city attorney seeks court order to force Lyft and Uber to hand over driver data

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is seeking a court order to force both Uber and Lyft to share records on driver safety, disability access and other... Read More…
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