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In post-dot com era Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg was the poster child for all things bro culture. The flip-flop clad, hoodie-wearing savant was thrust into the spotlight in his early 20s, and with his rise to fame came elements of toxic ability we didn’t yet understand: arena fast and loose with the rules, lack of adherence (or females and minorities for that matter) in the ranks, and the “move fast and break things” mantra that’s come to define Silicon Valley.

It’s time to take notice of Sphero.

The after-effects of a assortment survey appear by FundersClub bygone paint the account of a tone-deaf boy’s club in Silicon Valley. The after-effects come from analysis 234 technology startups apropos the assortment of their workforce.

A little after a year since we heard that Google’s parent aggregation Alphabet was hoping to sell off robotics firm Boston Dynamics, it’s assuredly happened. The maker of Big Dog, Atlas and Handle is being sold to Japanese tech giant SoftBank, along with addition robotics firm called Schaft – which Google acquired in 2013. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Today in San Jose, Apple kicked off its annual spring developers conference, WWDC. Before Tim Cook even took the stage the room was abuzz with a group of agog reporters administration intel, breaking down rumors, and apperception as to what could be in store this year. Last year we saw Siri come to macOS, bigger Letters (with stickers!), and bigger chain amid Apple laptops and mobile devices.

Apple appear today a new smart home apostle called the HomePod. The ridiculously-named device is very agnate to an Amazon Echo. You can play music, listen to the news, and ascendancy your Apple Home Kit.

Facebook is now testing a new affection which will anticipate page administrators from alteration the featured image, banderole and description on shared links, according to a source accustomed with the matter.

While American and Asian tech and automotive companies have been making great strides in free agent tech over the past couple of years, Russia is now entering the fray: Yandex, one of the better internet firms in the country, appear this week that it’s launched a self-driving car activity to set its on-demand taxi business on course for the future of mobility.

Google afresh appear a map assuming “America’s Most Misspelled Words” based on searches absolute “how to spell” and then a keyword (presumably misspelled).

If you’re attractive for plot twists, the Uber and Waymo accusation is chock full of them. Today, the aggregation unceremoniously parted ways with its Vice President of Technology, and former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski.