Despite Uber’s best efforts, the ridesharing company was unable to persuade a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss a pending class action lawsuit against company CEO Travis Kalanick over price fixing allegations. According to the suit, Kalanick, through the use of the Uber algorithm which determines rates and surge pricing charges in real-time, effectively conspired with the company’s army of drivers in an elaborate price fixing scheme.
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Plenty of guys out there have the hots for Scarlett Johansson, but most of them haven’t taken their obsessions to a level that’s this unhealthy. Mirror.co.uk brings us the story of Ricky Ma, a 42-year-old product designer from Hong Kong who spent $50,000 to create a creepily lifelike robot that looks like actress Scarlett Johansson.
Yes, this is real and it’s a wee bit disturbing.
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Bluetooth speakers have exploded in popularity over the past year, and for good reason. Every single smartphone and tablet on the planet packs Bluetooth connectivity, so they can all stream music to any Bluetooth-equipped speaker. And since these wireless speakers have become so popular, they’ve also come down in price.
Get ready to be amazed, because we’re about to show you just how many affordable Bluetooth speakers under $50 that Amazon sells.
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It was widely assumed that pre-orders for Tesla’s recently announced Model 3 would be impressive, but no one could have foreseen what has transpired over the last two days.
During Tesla’s special event this past Thursday, you might remember Elon Musk touting that the company had already secured over 115,000 Model 3 reservations from customers who hadn’t yet even seen the car. Not even 48 hours later, reservations for Tesla’s upcoming EV have already surpassed 253,000.
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Nine months ago, SoundHound wowed the world when it took the wraps off Hound, a voice-enabled personal assistant that was not only faster than rival apps Siri and Google Now but that could understand and correctly answer questions of surprising complexity. This isn’t something that just happened overnight, however — it required nine years of work and incredible foresight on the part of its engineers. In an interview with BGR, SoundHound founder and CEO Keyvan Mohajer explained how he conceived Hound and how he expects to compete against rival digital personal assistants created by tech giants Apple, Google and Microsoft.
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The “Internet of Things” has officially extended beyond our lives and into the lives of our pets.
Everything has to be smart and connected these days, and that now includes pet toys as well. But the Petcube Interactive Wi-Fi Pet Camera isn’t just a pet toy, it’s also an interactive wireless home camera. The device latches onto your home Wi-Fi network and lets you connect from anywhere using the free iOS or Android app. You can watch your pet, listen in on what’s going on at home, talk using the integrated speaker, and control the built-in laser toy that your dog or cat will go nuts over.
It’s an awesome product and best of all, it’s the same price as most single-purpose home cameras.
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Jay Z has repeatedly proven himself to be one of the smartest business minds in the entertainment industry. That said, even the best sometimes make mistakes and right now it’s looking like Jigga’s decision to fork over $56 million to buy music streaming service Tidal has been a colossal bust. Bloomberg reports that Jay Z is suing former Tidal owner Schibsted ASA for allegedly misrepresenting the number of subscribers it had at the time it sold the service to S. Carter Enterprises LLC back in 2015.
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One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time is the enduring popularity of Internet Explorer. Not only is it one of the least functional browsers available, but it was made obsolete when Microsoft launched Edge alongside Windows 10 last year.
Nevertheless, it remains the most popular browser in the world… but that may not be the case for much longer.
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On Tuesday, Snapchat unleashed one of the more meaningful software updates its app has seen in recent months. Dubbed Chat 2.0, the new update allows users to jump straight from sending a message to initiating a voice or audio chat. If they aren’t around, you can leave an audio message instead, but that’s not all.
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We’re not sure why it took someone as long as it did to think of this, but it’s here now so we should all just be thankful. The days of expensive adapters, cumbersome cables and moving around memory cards are long gone — using the Eyefi Mobi Class 10 Wi-Fi SDHC Card, you can transfer photos from your DSLR or your point and shoot camera wirelessly in no time at all to your Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet.
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