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this is CNET and here are the stories that matter right now Travis kalanick appointed to two people to the Board of uber without consulting the current board members nor the company's new CEO Callen ik is the former CEO of uber but resigned from the position after a series of controversies however Callen excessive right to choose three of eleven board seats former Xerox CEO Ursula burns and former Maryland CEO John Thain are expected to formally join ubers board this week but it is unclear if they will be able to vote on governance issues that could affect Kalyn its voting power uber said the two appointments came as a complete surprise to Eber and its board Google's Pixel event is scheduled for Wednesday October 4th the company is expected to introduce revised versions of its pixel phones along with a new laptop rumored to be called the pixel book a new report from TechCrunch says Google is also working on a new device similar to Amazon's echo show this device would act as a smart home hub handle video calls and would feature Google assistant the report says Google will try to launch this echo show competitor this year maybe we'll get a look at it on the port Amazon's echo echo dot and echo show can now make free voice calls to phone numbers in North America the feature can be set up in the companion smartphone app which will need access to your contacts you have the ability to link your mobile number to the equity vices so recipients will know who is calling them you can also opt out of linking your number but then recipients will see unknown caller on their caller ID stay up to date with the latest by downloading the scenic detected a app available for iOS and Android