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 Good morning! Here's the technology news you need to know this Monday. 1. Porsche CEO: 'An iPhone belongs in your pocket, not the road.' Porsche does not plan to join luxury carmakers who are trying to develop self-driving vehicles, its CEO told a German newspaper. 2. London taxi-app Gett has launched a new flat-fee courier service that promises to get a package from A to B in under an hour. We gave the service a go. 3. Google's £130 million tax settlement "was not a glorious moment." The admission by the UK government minister, Sajid Javid, came as a senior executive from Google claimed he could not say how much UK profit has been generated by the technology firm in the past decade. 4. Samsung has released an update to its web browser for Android 5.0 users that delivers adblocking for the first time. Last year, Apple quietly did the same with iOS 9. 5. Apple is investigating wireless charging for the iPhone and iPad, according to a report from Bloomberg. Bloomberg claims Apple will introduce the technology into phones and tablets in 2017. 6. Rovio's "Angry Birds" game has been downloaded over four billion times, according to a gaming executive within the company. The Finnish startup now wants to start trying to attract an older audience. 7. Jay Z's music streaming service Tidal is blaming Universal for the leak of Rihanna's new album. Her album, ANTI, appeared briefly on Tidal before its official release, and was then taken down. 8. Google employees in the UK earned an average wage of £160,000 each last year. The internet giant continues to insist that its British operation is a modest outpost of the company's global empire. 9. Nokia has settled its patent dispute with Samsung outside the courts, saying the arbitration verdict would boost its patent sales by hundreds of millions of Euros. Nokia currently has a similar dispute with LG Electronics. 10. TransferWise's finances show losses grew to £11 million last year. The London fintech unicorn's mounting losses were due to a big jump in expenses and spending. | 
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