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10 things in tech you need to know today

10 things in tech you need to know today

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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

Good morning! It's a calm and cloudy day in London. Here's the tech news you need to know this Thursday.

1. Uber had a bad day yesterday. $4, $4, and $4. But in one piece of good news, $4.

2. $4 It's axing 200 employees in the country - bringing the total laid off since October up to between 700 and 900. It's part of CEO Marissa Mayer's cost-cutting efforts.

3. $4 Keith Rabois says that "one of the most interesting things we've noticed over the last decade is the ability of math and machines to replace human judgement, particularly expert judgement... and it's finally possible now to use data and machine learning techniques to replace the judgement of experts in law and in healthcare."

4. $4 BI Intelligence crunched the numbers on the streaming TV service the Cupertino company is believed to be building.

5. $4 She's being represented by Lawless & Lawless - the same firm representing Reddit CEO Ellen Pao in a sex discrimination case against VC firm Kleiner Perkins.

6. $4 Tens of millions of dollars-worth of Bitcoin are missing, and $4.

7. $4 On Wednesday, the Treasury announced it would apply anti-money laundering rules to the digital currency and invest in research in the sector.

8. $4 Tech giants dominate the industry, but the media companies hope their combined weight will be enough to make an impact. The alliance is called Pangaea.

9. $4 The rise follows the announcement that the Japanese games company is to start making games for smartphones in an alliance with DeNA.

10. $4 It's good news for Apple as it gears up to launch its first ever smartwatch in April.

NOW WATCH: $4

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