10 things in tech you need to know today, August 6

The cofounder of Pilot AI
is facing legal action for a lewd story about Burning
Man.
Jim
Urquhart/Reuters

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. Amazon is hinting that it has a
   new plan to make boatloads of money from Alexa.
   The company’s focus now seems to increasingly be turning to
   using voice assistant, Alexa, as a platform to trial
   digital subscriptions like music and video streaming.
2. Apple has removed the
   entire libraries of five ofInfoWars‘ six podcasts from iTunes,
   according to BuzzFeed. The company said Alex
   Jones’ podcasts violated its hate speech guidelines. 
3. Thousands of Uber drivers in
   Australia logged off for more than an hour on
   Monday. The Guardian reported that drivers want
   Uber to stop using upfront pricing and go back to paying them
   for the actual time and distance they travel.
4. iPhone supplier Taiwan
   Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shut down its factories after a
   virus attack, Bloomberg reports. The slowdown
   comes at a critical time for the company, as many tech firms
   are working to release their next generation of products this
   fall.
5. The uproar over how “Fortnite”
   is being released for Android shows how much we have acquiesced
   to Apple’s way of doing business. Epic Games
   announced Friday that it won’t distribute the Android version
   of “Fortnite: Battle Royale” through Google’s Play Store, and
   it shows we’ve all bought into the app-store model.
6. Facebook employees are
   obsessed with the foxes that hang out on their office
   roof. Workers have an internal channel where they
   share photos of the foxes, while social media is awash with
   adorable images of the furry critters.
7. Korean electronics giant
   LG is having to change to compete with Silicon
   Valley. The company is opening artificial
   intelligence labs around the world, while employees no longer
   have to wear ties.
8. The cofounder of $23
   million startup Pilot AI has been accused of taking off
   his pants and telling a lewd story about Burning Man in front
   of a female employee. In a new
   lawsuit, Elliot English is accused of describing an anal
   sex workshop he took at Burning Man, hosted by a famous porn
   star.
9. The cofounder of $4 billion
   startup Credit Karma used to work in Pizza
   Hut. Ten years ago, Nichole Mustard sold her
   house, took a 60% pay cut, and moved her family across the
   country to found Credit Karma.
10. Academics created a periodic
    table of mind-blowing tech, and it’s a handy guide to how the
    world will change forever. Academics at Imperial
    Tech Foresight created the table, which is designed to be a
    visual conversation starter about where the world is going.

Have an Amazon Alexa device? Now you can hear 10 Things in Tech
each morning. Just search for “Business Insider” in your Alexa’s
flash briefing settings.