Lyft's experiment with paid self-driving rides in Las Vegas appears to be going as smoothly as you might hope. Lyft and its partner Aptiv have revealed that they've completed 5,000 autonomous trips since launching service earlier in 2018. The passeng…
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The original Honda Insight landed in the United States in December 1999. The tiny aerodynamic hatchback didn't light the electrified vehicle world on fire like the far more popular Toyota Prius. But it did show that the automaker was serious about hy…
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‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains Of Things’
How online shopping and cheap prices are turning Americans into hoarders.
August 21, 2018 at 12:42PM
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Earlier in the summer, Facebook signed an agreement with Washington to keep advertisers from using the platform's tools to selectively exclude certain demographics, which the company first got in trouble for back in 2016. But that wasn't enough for H…
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Facebook Is Rating The Trustworthiness Of Its Users On A Scale From Zero To 1
The previously unreported ratings system, which Facebook has developed over the past year, shows that the fight against the gaming of tech systems has evolved to include measuring the credibility of users to help identify malicious actors.
August 21, 2018 at 11:40AM
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Flagship phones in 2018 can easily handle graphically demanding games, but many of them run hot or simply can't sustain their performance after several minutes of play.
The Galaxy Note 9 has a feature designed to keep this flagship cool while delive…
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Netflix is bypassing App Store for its recurring subscription fees. Currently, Netflix pays a 30 percent cut of first-year subscription fees to Apple and 15 percent for each recurring year. But now in 33 countries, TechCrunch reports that new or laps…
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