Uber loses VP of Global Vehicle Programs

One more Uber executive has left the company. This time its Sherif Marakby, Uber’s vice president of Global Vehicle Programs, who helped launched the company’s self-driving program in Pittsburgh. It isn’t clear why Marakby left Uber but according to Automotive News, it isn’t related to the lawsuit the company has with Waymo. It can’t be said if it’s related to sexual harassment allegations either. Marakby joined Uber back in April after working for Ford for 25 years.

“Sherif’s deep experience and knowledge of the automotive industry have helped us tremendously in working to make self-driving cars a reality,” an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch in a statement. Marakby joins at least five other execs who’ve left the company in the past few months, including its head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, SVP of engineering, and VP of growth.

Facebook plans to review content reporting system after murder video stayed on its service for hours

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There are unforgettable moments you get to see on Facebook’s video platform these days. Unfortunately, some of them are terrible and gruesome. One of these was the documentation of a deadly shooting that happened in Cleveland, which stayed on the site for hours before it was taken down. The social network says they’re reviewing their content reporting system because of this. According to a statement Facebook released, “As a result of this terrible series of events, we are reviewing our reporting flows to be sure people can report videos and other material that violates our standards as easily and quickly as possible.

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Instagram takes cues from Pinterest with new feature called Collections

If you’ve been saving random photos on Instagram haphazardly, the social network now wants to help you organize them with a new feature. Called Collections, you can now organize your saved posts in a way that makes sense to you. It’s rather similar to how Pinterest does things. But instead of collecting everything you find online, this is limited to what you find on Instagram and these collections are kept private so others won’t see what you’ve been saving.

When you save a post now, you’ll either get the option to create a new collection or add it to an existing collection. For organizing the posts you already have, you can head to your saved posts and tap on the plus icon in the upper right. The feature should be rolling out to both iOS and Android apps now.

Source: Digital Trends

Puzzle game ‘Fez’ coming to iOS this year

Polytron just announced that its indie puzzle game Fez is finally making its way to mobile devices, specifically they’re singling out the iOS platform. In the short teaser for the game, you see it through an iPad’s screen. First released on the Xbox 360 back in 2012, it has been ported to other platforms like PC, Mac, Sony PlayStation 3 and PS4, and Linux. This will be the first time it’ll be coming to mobile. No word yet for Android but we’re hoping it’s going to show up soon, too.

Source: SlashGear