| China's ride-hailing giant reacts to recent murders, Audi starts production of an electric SUV and The Wing launches a mobile app. Here's your Daily Crunch for September 4, 2018 1. Didi makes more safety changes — and will pause night services while it does The Chinese ride-hailing company has detailed further safety measures coming to its platform following two recent murders of female passengers. Those measures include adding a button in the app to call the police, as well as a trial of on-route audio recording on its Express and Premier services. As the company rolls these features out, it will be suspending late-night service on the Chinese mainland from September 8 to 15. 
2. Audi starts mass production of its first all-electric SUV The German automaker unveiled a concept version of the vehicle three years ago, at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. 3. Mozilla hires former Google executive as its new policy and security chief Alan Davison, who oversaw internet policy and cybersecurity towards the end of President Obama's tenure, will return to Mozilla in the new role after last year serving as its tech policy fellow. 4. Maoyan, China's largest online movie ticket service, files to go public in Hong Kong Maoyan's IPO comes as another Tencent investment, Meituan-Dianping, is preparing for its own debut. Both Meituan and Maoyan are key pieces in Tencent's online-to-offline services rivalry with Alibaba. 5. Women-only co-working space The Wing is launching an app to help its members stay connected The coworking company created the app to connect its members and keep them up to date on The Wing's programming. For now, the app will only be available to paying Wing members. 6. Political anonymity may help us see both sides of a divisive issue online Some topics are so politically charged that even to attempt a discussion online is to invite toxicity and rigid disagreement among participants. But a new study finds that exposure to the views of others, minus their political affiliation, could help us overcome our own biases. 7. TikTok adds video reactions to its newly-merged app Just about a month after the merger of the short-form video apps Musical.ly and TikTok, the app is introducing a new social feature, allowing users to post their reactions to the videos that they watch. Instead of text comments, these reactions will take the form of videos that are superimposed on top of existing clips. | 
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