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Recode Daily: Uber is under fire over allegations of a culture of sexual harassment

CEO Travis Kalanick promises an investigation of the claims of a former employee.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick promised an “urgent investigation” of claims by a former engineer that she and other women were sexually harassed, brushed off by the human resources department and punished for bringing complaints. Calls to #deleteUber are on the rise again. — [Johana Bhuiyan / Recode]

President Trump’s revised travel ban, expected this week, will target the same seven majority-Muslim countries, but no longer cover green-card holders from those nations. Also in the works: A set of aggressive new policies on deporting illegal immigrants. — [Maria Abi-Habib and Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal]

Snap has lost one of its top ad executives less than a month before its expected IPO. Sriram Krishnan joined the company a year ago from Facebook. — [Kurt Wagner / Recode]

SpaceX launched a supply capsule for the International Space Station from a history-rich pad at Kennedy Space Center and once again successfully landed the rocket’s first stage. Here’s the webcast and drone video of the landing. — [Loren Grush / The Verge]

On the latest episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Brad Stone, author of “The Upstarts,” says self-driving cars represent an “existential crisis” for Uber — motivation that may work to its advantage. — [Eric Johnson / Recode]

Top Stories From Recode

These University of Washington professors are teaching a course on bullshit

Watch out, Big Data.

People love GIFs — but turning GIFs into ad dollars is taking some time

Tenor wants to become the Google Search for emotions.

An Intel drone got the assist on a vicious dunk at the NBA’s Slam Dunk Contest

Orlando’s Aaron Gordon used a drone to pass him the ball, and it worked out okay.

Apple released the first trailer for its new ‘Carpool Karaoke’ show this week

It’s pretty much exactly what you would have expected.

We read that Elon Musk tunnel-boring story so you don’t have to

How Elon wants to beat flying cars.

Watch Mister Rogers defend public television to the U.S. Senate in 1969

Trump is the latest president to consider de-funding it.

This Is Cool

Google just added a whole lot of new presidential history exhibits

And today would be an appropriate time to browse.


This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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