Innovative Autonomous Crop Spraying and Ethical Concerns of DNA Kits

Travis Kalanick has cut all ties with Uber, Sling does indeed have streaming pricing power, livestreams are the new telethons, YouTube considered doing the right thing but passed, and is Catalyst fundamentally flawed?

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Links:

• Travis Kalanick severs all ties with Uber, departing board and selling all his shares (CNBC)
• Sling TV gets more expensive, raises cheapest subscription price to $30 (The Verge)
• Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round (TechCrunch)
• Pentagon tells military personnel not to use at-home DNA kits (NBC News)
• Livestreams are the new telethons, and they’re raising millions for charities (Washington Post)
• Inside YouTube’s Year of Responsibility (Bloomberg)
• Catalyst and Cohesion (WormsandViruses.com)
• Catalyst, Two Months In (Daring Fireball)

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