Reddit’s CEO Ellen Pao resigned

 

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There was upheaval at Reddit as its CEO Ellen Pao resigned.

Reddit made an announcement on July 10 to confirm this news. And the company appointed its co-founder Steve Huffman as the company’s new chief officer.

Sam Altman revealed that Pao’s resignation came in peace with the company. She made the mutual agreement with the company.

Altman wrote: ” the employees appreciate Ellen’s contributions to the company as well as the technology industry. Ellen brought focus to Chaos, and attracted a world-class team of executives and business growth. She made a great efforts to changed perceptions at Reddit and set a good example in the technology industry.”

Altman continued that Ellen Pao will remain as a advisor to the board at Reddit by the end of 2015. He hopes she could make more useful contributions for the company. And the company is also happy for Steve Huffman’ back. Product and community are two important sections for the company and the board was finding a leader who are both good at these two sections. Steve meets the requirement.

He criticized some Reddit users as their disagreements to Pao during his service in the company.

He pointed out the Reddit community should learn to balance the authenticity and compassion to be a great community. Steve faces much pressure to work as Ellen started to reach this goal.

The users could keep disagreements towards the leaders, but death threats are not allowed. The company will get the threats banned if they continue.

The Reddit bosses made an apology to the community after it fired a popular staff member that caused moderators to revolt.

Several mods set subreddits to private and took other sections of the stei down as Pao fired Victoria Taylor.

Facebook updates female icons to keep pace with the times

If you use Facebook for your social associations, you may find that Facebook has updated its icons for female friends to specific the details.

Caitlin Winner, the social network’s design manager who supports this change. Winner indicates that this updates brings women in front of the male.

In the old version, the female icons were set not so obviously into the background. The mail icons were recognized easily.

With the update, the female icon is now placing in front of the male with more clearly and symmetrical features. As a result, the images can not run into one another.

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As for the group logos, it updated with the female silhouette assemble in front of two males, placing a leading role.

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Winner stated in a blog post that: ” women receive advanced education now. And the women place important role in social life or personal life. Women is not in a position inferior to men.”

Winner added: ” His first idea of the update icons was to draw a double silhouette with equal sizes of imags without a hard line to differentiate who was in front. After many efforts, Winner gave up this proposal as the failure to make an icon that did not look like a two-headed mythical beast. He finally draw the new icon by placing the lady a little smaller in front of the man.”

Facebook has also changed the typeface of its logo in order to make its app more mobile-friendly in last week.

Sony’s 1TB PS4 will be bundled with a PlayStation TV device for sale in Britain

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Sony has revealed that its fans will receive a free gift with 1TB PS4 when it comes to the market later this month.

It is said that the 1TB Ultimate Player Edition PlayStation 4 come to the fans with a PlayStation TV microconsole, but it has time limited.

The users can convert PS4 content to a second screen with the PalyStation TV devices that making the main TV set difference from the traditional viewing.

It revealed that the “Ultimate Player Edition” console will come on the market on July 15, and this device comes with black and white versions, while the retailers are only listing the Jet Black model at the moment.

The Ultimate Player Edition consists of a DualShock4 Wireless Controller, a 14 Day PlayStation Plus Trial, a HDMI cable, an AC Power Cord, a Wired Mono Headset and a USB Cable.

This is a similar 1TB model releasing in Japan. Its power consumption reduced by 8%, while weight reduced by 10% and it comes with a matte finish to make the system look more casual. But those features did not come to the European versions. It is said that the feature improvements will be based on the launch console specifications.

Surveillance software firm hacking team being attacked by hackers

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The Hacking Team that specializes in making surveillance software has been hacked in a cyber attack which is ironically reflection to the Hacking Team.

It is said a large-scale date has been breached during the cyber attack. What is more, the Hackers took over the company’s Twitter feed and changed its account name to ” Hacked Team”.

To prove the cyber attack, the hackers posted the so-called evidence of data breach on Twitter in which emails sent by Hacking Team CEO Vincent Vincenzetti are included.

The critics found that Hacking Team designs softwares which are used to spy on dissidents, human rights activists and journalists. However, the company denied it. The company claims that its software is designed in accordance with law for investigations. If what the critics said come true, it will cause unease situation among its clients of Hacking Team.

Christopher Soghoian who was appointed as Speech, Privacy and Technology project of the American Civil Liberties Union, a long-term critic of the organization revealed the evidence that there was 400 GB of data was stolen during the cyber attack.

The information seized in the data is reported to include a spreadsheet listing contains the Hacking Team’s government clients and also with their transactions.

Uber’s ride-sharing service is temporarily close in France due to nationwide taxi strike

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Uber made up the decision to stop its low-coast UberPOP Service in France as the recent protests against the service’s legality.

The protests become intense between non-professional Uber drivers and standard taxi drivers. It burst out violent riots in Paris last week.

The taxi drivers from other firms protest the San Francisco-based firm of Uber takes advantage of the competitors as the Uber drivers have no need to get a taxi license or training.It is unfair to its competitors. The Uberpop service is against the presence of a law that carried out last year which requiring all drivers to have a professional licensee and insurance.

Based on the case of Germany’s ban last year, the regulators and taxi unions demanded a complete ban on Uber in France, however, Uber has appealed this lawsuit in domestic and EU courts.

Since there is hostility against Uber drivers from other professional drivers, the firm made the decision to temporarily close the service until the Constitutional Court’s decision in September. And the company has stated this decision in a statement.

The company also stated that it will be sorry for 500,000 French UberPOP passengers and those drivers who use this platform. But it stated that Safety comes first for its passengers and drivers.

As the Paris protest evolved, Ubess director general Thibaud Simphal and director for Western Europe Pierre Dimitri Gore Coty were detained in the police station.

New Apple patent will guide iPhone and Apple users pay each other soon

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A new Apple patent has come into our eyes, it is a system that could change the option you pay friends and family. It will be more convenient to shop via this patent.

It is suggested that the patent will allow the iPhone and Apple users to transfer money to each other via their devices if their positions are close enough.

You can choose the amount you want to send on your device via this person-to-person system, and you can either select the card to pay from in the Wallet app or sending an encrypted “packet”. The system works with simply operations.

For the property security issue, Apple suggests you use biometric authentication or pass-code support. For these actions, your property will be protected safer.

When the users pay with the system, the bank or card provider of the person could add the funds on their account. And there will be notification following to ensure everything has been verified.

It is possibly that the system will use the Bluetooth or NFC to work when make a payment. The system is just a patent right now, so there may be some teach support revealing. Please notice its update news if you are interested in this patent.

US woman was hit unconscious as drone fell on her head

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Reporting from Seattle that A local woman became unconscious after a drone crashed and hit her on the head. This incident occurred during a gay pride parade assembly last weekend and it caused injuries. This is the latest drone-related injuries event.

The witness told the reporters that the drone crashed into a nearby building first and then it hit on the woman. Luckily, the woman’s boyfriend caught her before she knocked down on the ground to avoid worse injury.

BBC News reported that the woman did not get any serious injuries and it is said that she have made a full recovery now.

The woman’s friend sent the police with the damaged drone. And a male suspect who might pilot the model aircraft turned himself in the authorities.

The damaged drone we talked about weighing 2lb, but the model and the manufacturer were still in confidential.

There were also similar incidents reported in other countries, singer Enrique Iglesias included. He was injured on his hand when he tried to grab a camera-equipped drone during one of his concerts. There was report previous hoping to ban the drone application in England for safety problem.

Ubers attempts to get you to the destination quicker with park of Bing Maps

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Uber seriously consider getting its customers to teir destination qucker than they expected, it is working hard to make this comes true. Now the taxi operator is able to use a part of Bing Maps to reach this goal.

Report from TechCrunch, the company has bought from Microsoft company a data center, camera technology, patents, mapping tech and about 100 engineers to make its aim to carry out well.

There were reports previously implied that Uber company intend to build its own mapping service for its drivers and customers by supporting the popular ride-hailing app.

It is said that Uber expects to hire Google Maps elites to work on the project, and it has teamed up with Nokia’s Here Maps for the big-money acquisition teach support.

Google maps has been used into the Uber application. Considering the competition between to companies, the elites create a rival service for Uber that would help it to get rid of the reliance on a third party.

At the beginning of this week, Uber introduced the launch of UberBOAT to intercontinental travel. It transports the customers between Europe and Asia Turkey’s central Bosporus strait. For its new Bing Maps, it will help the customers shorten the traveling time.