Amazon's first commercial drone delivery; Uber ordered to halt San Francisco self-driving car test, and more news.

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Uber’s self-driving cars aren’t really self-driving, says Uber. Just hours after the ride-hailing company announced that it was bringing self-driving cars to San Francisco streets, the California Department of Motor Vehicles ordered Uber to cease self-driving operations until they got the proper permit — or risk legal action. Uber insists its cars don’t need the permit, saying they’re not fully self-driving and still need a human driver in the car. It’s not a great start for Uber’s San Francisco test: the vehicles may also have been involved in several road mishaps.

Amazon made its first commercial drone delivery. A two-story farmhouse near Cambridge, U.K. received popcorn and a Fire TV from Amazon — not altogether newsworthy, except for the fact that it was the company’s first commercial delivery by drone. The trip took 13 minutes and “marks the start of operations for Amazon’s drone program after three years of skepticism and regulatory hurdles.” For now, Amazon’s Prime Air program has two U.K. customers, but plans to expand to dozens near its testing grounds in the coming months.

Exxon Mobil has named Darren Woods as CEO. Woods, the company’s current president, has been with Exxon since 1992 and was widely expected to take over after Tillerson retired at 65. Now that Tillerson has been nominated as Secretary of State, his retirement will be pushed forward and Woods will take over January 1.

Who needs Periscope? Twitter released an update that will let you broadcast live video straight from the app. Though the move is “powered” by Periscope, you don’t actually need a Periscope account to use the feature. “In the short term, integrating Periscope fully into Twitter is a win for both,” says The Verge, especially considering Facebook’s dominance with live video — but in the long term, this may spell trouble for Periscope’s future as a standalone app. 

21st Century Fox will buy Sky for $14.6 billion: Rupert Murdoch is buying “the 61 percent of Sky he does not already own,” acquiring the European pay-TV brand (with nearly 22 million customers across the U.K. and Europe) for ￡10.75 per share. This marks 21st Century Fox’s second takeover attempt — the first, in 2010, fell apart amidst the News of the World phone hacking scandal.

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