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Twitter announces Topics, Xerox might take a run at HP, Uber’s getting into the ads business, Ford’s electric Mustang makes Tech Crunch angry, and the best blockchain startup idea I’ve heard of in a long time.

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Links:

• Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline (The Verge)
• Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP (WSJ)
• California Says Facebook Failed to Comply With Subpoenas (NYTimes)
• California asks for court order forcing Facebook to hand over Cambridge Analytica documents (The Verge)
• Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Designed to See Jaywalkers (Bloomberg)
• Uber is entering the ads business (TechCrunch)
• Neural Magic raises $15 million to boost AI inferencing speed on off-the-shelf processors (VentureBeat)
• How Arweave's Permaweb cheaply hosts sites & apps forever (TechCrunch)
• Ford built an electric Mustand with a manual transmission. And we're mad. (TechCrunch)