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Uber has been losing over $1 billion per quarter, reporting losses of $5.4 billion in the second quarter. Uber recently laid off 400 marketing workers and has now stopped hiring for engineers and product managers, except for its autonomous vehicle and freight-shipping divisions. Tumblr will be sold to Automattic Inc, the company that owns Wordpress, an online publishing tool. Japanese researchers have developed a method for separating sperm bearing 'X' chromosomes from sperm containing 'Y' chromosomes, which allowed them to produce litters of the chosen sex in mice studies.