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    • Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service for its employees within a 50 square kilometer area in Guangzhou, China (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service for its employees within a 50 square kilometer area in Guangzhou, China  —  Guangzhou, China-based self-driving startup Pony.ai is joining an exclusive club of companies that have launched autonomous ride-hailing programs. Autonomous car startup Pony.ai launches PonyPilot, a pilot ride-hailing service

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    • SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an $8/month streaming only plan for mobiles and smart speakers that gives access to 200+ channels (Janko Roettgers/Variety)

    Janko Roettgers / Variety: SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an $8/month streaming only plan for mobiles and smart speakers that gives access to 200+ channels  —  SiriusXM wants to cater consumers without cars, or cars without compatible stereos, with a new $8 plan for mobile and in-home listening. SiriusXM launches SiriusXM Essential, an /month streaming only

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    • Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing Huawei received funding from Chinese security and intelligence agencies and the People's Liberation Army (Zak Doffman/Forbes)

    Zak Doffman / Forbes: Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing Huawei received funding from Chinese security and intelligence agencies and the People’s Liberation Army  —  Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.  — Share to facebook  — Share to twitter  — Share to linkedin Report: CIA shared intelligence with US allies showing

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    • GM's Cruise execs talk about the autonomous driving unit's history, its progress and plans, internal development tools they use, and more (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: GM’s Cruise execs talk about the autonomous driving unit’s history, its progress and plans, internal development tools they use, and more  —  According to marketing firm ABI, as many as 8 million driverless cars will be added to the road in 2025.  Meanwhile, Research and Markets is predicting … GM's Cruise

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    • Researchers: 33 of 36 apps for depression or smoking cessation shared data with third-parties and 2 apps shared very sensitive info, like health diary entries (Rachel Becker/The Verge)

    Rachel Becker / The Verge: Researchers: 33 of 36 apps for depression or smoking cessation shared data with third-parties and 2 apps shared very sensitive info, like health diary entries  —  ‘Do I trust the person who made the app, and do I understand where this data is going?’  —  Free apps marketed to people

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    • China releases new rules for game approvals and will start taking submissions under the new application process from April 22 (Jen/Niko)

    Jen / Niko: China releases new rules for game approvals and will start taking submissions under the new application process from April 22  —  China’s State Administration of Press and Publication (SAPP) held a conference on April 10th to communicate new rules and regulations regarding game publication in China. China releases new rules for game

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    • Research: some WhatsApp group users are spreading Nazi propaganda through stickers and chain letters in Germany, where local laws forbid the use of Nazi imagery (Karsten Schmehl/BuzzFeed News)

    Karsten Schmehl / BuzzFeed News: Research: some WhatsApp group users are spreading Nazi propaganda through stickers and chain letters in Germany, where local laws forbid the use of Nazi imagery  —  BERLIN — German WhatsApp users are spreading far-right propaganda through the use of stickers and chain letters but the company … Research: some WhatsApp

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