Bits: Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd

View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Monday, August 14, 2017 [For the latest updates, go to nytimes.com/bits »]( Abbey Lossing [Emotional Intelligence]( [Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd]( By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER In truth, interpersonal skills like collaboration, communication and empathy are vital to career success in technology. Technology News [Silicon Valley Now Has Its Own Populist Pundit]( By NELLIE BOWLES Steve Hilton, a tech entrepreneur who was an adviser to former Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain, is Fox News’s first host in the liberal region. [In China, Facebook Tests the Waters With a Stealth App]( By PAUL MOZUR The social media giant has quietly authorized the release of a Chinese version of its Moments app, a highly unusual move that raises transparency questions. [Seeking Greater Global Power, China Looks to Robots and Microchips]( By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ The country’s effort to take a lead in the technologies of the future, often with the help of foreign companies, is the likely subject of a United States trade investigation. [Uber Board Considers 3 Investment Offers to Buy Company’s Shares]( By MIKE ISAAC AND KATIE BENNER Even as the ride-hailing service’s future remains unclear, Uber’s board has debated three investment offers that could affect the company’s power structure. ADVERTISEMENT More From The Times [How a Conservative TV Giant Is Ridding Itself of Regulation]( By CECILIA KANG, ERIC LIPTON AND SYDNEY EMBER The Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Trump administration’s F.C.C. chief see eye-to-eye on the need to unleash television. Both are reaping big rewards. [How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art]( By CADE METZ Project Magenta, a team at Google, is crossbreeding sounds from different instruments based on neural networks and building networks that can draw. [EBay’s Founder Has a New Idea: Build a Dairy in Hawaii]( By STEPHANIE STROM Kauai residents who object are teaming up with owners of resorts that line the island’s famous beaches to try to block the dairy. The Shift [The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here]( By KEVIN ROOSE We’ve rushed headlong into a hyper-fragmented mess, with a jumble of on-demand services that, added up, cost more and often offer less than the old cable bundle. [Teaching A.I. Systems to Behave Themselves]( By CADE METZ As philosophers and pundits worry that artificial intelligence will one day harm the world, some researchers are working on ways to lower the risks. From Opinion Opinion [Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us]( By JONATHAN TAPLIN America has held a largely romantic view of the tech industry that is at odds with reality. Personal Technology Tech Tip [Taking Your Data Plan to a New iPad]( By J. D. BIERSDORFER If you have a cellular data plan you’d like to bring along from your old tablet, you might be able to move it yourself. HOW ARE WE DOING? We’d love your feedback on this newsletter. Please email thoughts and suggestions to [bits_newsletter@nytimes.com](mailto:bits_newsletter@nytimes.com?subject=Bits%20Newsletter%20Feedback%20223). ADVERTISEMENT LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here](. WANT MORE NEWS ABOUT CALIFORNIA? Subscribe to our California Today newsletter and get the news and stories that matter to Californians (and anyone else interested in the state), delivered weekday mornings. Sign up [here](. FOLLOW BITS [Twitter] [@nytimesbits]( Get more [NYTimes.com newsletters »]( | Get unlimited access to NYTimes.com and our NYTimes apps. [Subscribe »]( ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this message because you signed up for NYTimes.com's Bits newsletter. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Change Your Email]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Contact]( | [Advertise]( Copyright 2017 The New York Times Company 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018