Should Uber Be Doing More To Protect Its Drivers?

Over the weekend, an Orange County Uber driver named Edward Caban released a now viral video on Youtube that depicted a scary confrontation between himself and his passenger, Benjamin Golden.  In a little less than a week, the video has garnered over 2 million views and raised serious questions about driver safety.

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Facebook Expands Local Ad Products For Businesses With Multiple Storefronts

More storefronts can now translate into even more advertising deals for Facebook.

On Thursday, Facebook announced the launch of two new local marketing products aimed at making it easier for businesses with multiple locations to create local ads for each store and better understand customers in each area.

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‘Overwatch’ Is Coming To PS4 And Xbox One As A Fully-Fledged $60 Game

I can’t say I saw this one coming. After playing the Overwatch beta on PC for the past week or so, I loved the game but was unsure about its potential model. Given the other arena shooters forthcoming, and Blizzard’s focus on F2P games as of late, Overwatch being free-to-play with microtransactions almost seemed inevitable.

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Xiaomi Mi Band 1S to be released November 7th

The Xiaomi Mi Band turned a lot of heads last year when it matched the functionality of other entry-level fitness trackers at a much lower price tag of CNY79 ($15 dollars when it began selling in the US).

Its successor, the Xiaomi Mi Band 1S, is reported to launch on November 7th just in time for China’s biggest shopping day of the year, November 11th, Singles Day.

The Mi Band 1S will still feature step counting, calorie counting, sleep monitor but will also be adding a heart rate monitor, and buzz notifications. It will remain water-resistant though.

The Mi Band 1S is will cost CNY99, a modest increase from Mi Band’s price (this could translate to a $5 or $10 increase in the US market).

Xiaomi gobbled a large share of the wearables market with the Mi Band last year. The Mi Band 1S has big shoes to fill this year and we can’t wait to see how it manages.

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Lenovo planning a September 2016 Marshmallow update for the K3 Note

Lenovo’s Android update tracker has just been updated to give a timeframe when specific devices will be receiving Marshmallow, if at all. To quickly clear the air – hugely popular devices like the K3 Note and A7000/A7000 Plus will indeed be graced with an Android M firmware, just not particularly soon.

Okay, that might have been an understatement. All three models are listed for a Marshmallow release in September 2016, when Google will be gearing up to launch Android N, in all likelihood.

It’s the smartphones’ budget nature that may be to blame, as models up the lineup will be updated sooner. The yet-to-be-released Vibe S1 and the Vibe P1 that recently hit the shelves will get Android M in June 2016.

As of now, these 5 devices are the only ones with a confirmed Marshmallow update, the current flagship Vibe Z2 Pro (albeit a last-year model) will remain on 5.0 Lollipop for the time…

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