ESPN launches ESPN + a new $5/month sports streaming video service, Uber will begin performing annual criminal background checks on its drivers and the UK reveals its first major Cyber Attack target was IS.
Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Roger Chang, and Justin Robert Young.
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- Quick Hits
- (00:45) Global PC Shipments Remain Stagnant; HP Holds On to Top Spot | bloomberg
- (01:10) Amazon Key, Ring doorbells may become your new smart home BFFs | cnet
- (01:30) Exclusive: Walmart close to buying majority of India’s Flipkart | reuters
- (01:45)Apple’s Stumbling HomePod Isn’t the Hot Seller It Wanted | bloomberg
- More Top Stories
- (02:25) Disney kicks off its streaming future today with ESPN+ | the verge
- (05:40) U.K. Reveals Its First Major Cyber-Attack Was Against IS | bloomberg
- (08:55) Snap is testing commerce with Snapchat Discover publishers | digiday
- (12:05) Tesla is no longer working with NTSB in fatal Model X crash investigation | tech crunch
- (16:00) ‘Urban mining’ in South Korea pulls rare battery materials from recycled tech | reuters
- (19:55) Uber to up its background checks for drivers | ap news
- Thing of the Day
- Messages of the Day
- (23:40) Norm – Cashless Society
- (26:25) MissMusicTeacher – Zuckerberg and the Senate
- Today’s Contributor
Apple HomePod sales disappoint, ESPN+ launches, Uber steps up safety measures for riders. 
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Spotify might tweak its free tier, Qualcomm has new machine learning chips for IoT and Uber gets into car rentals and public transportation.
As countries like Sweden push for cashless payments it seems the future of currency is electronic payments but is this a necessarily a good thing? Plus Facebook CEO Zuckerberg gets a grilling on Capital Hill and the W3C and FIDO Alliance announce WebAuthn, a password-free open standard supported by the latest version of Firefox.
Facebook announces data abuse bounty program, Walmart to use Postmates for grocery delivery, Vevo YouTube account hacked. 
Zuckerberg meets lawmakers on Capital Hill, Facebook suspends two data analytic companies, and Facebook partners with nonprofit foundations to measure the affects of Social Media on elections. Plus PayPal is rolling out FDIC insured debit cards and Leap Motion announces Project North Star.
Uber buys a bike-sharing company, Apple issues new RED phones and Facebook apologizes to the US Congress.