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Photo: Getty It looks like Uber has a growing interest in the behaviors of its users. According to a patent application filed by the company Thursday, Uber is planning to use machine learning to better understand the “state” of a passenger when they request a ride. The patent—which is pretty vague as to its purpose…

Photo: Getty Joe Kennedy, the Democratic congressmen representing Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district, is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a pretty reliable vote against just about anything President Trump wants. So it was more than a little weird to see him cast his lot Republicans and vote against an amendment that would cut…

A casino in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland.Photo: Getty Images Switzerland has elected to allow online casinos, though a newly approved law intends to keep foreign operations from sharing in the take. Per the BBC, Swiss voters have overwhelmingly voted—well above rates suggested by early polling—a measure already approved in Parliament to legalize certified Swiss online casinos, but…

Photo: Getty, Patrick Lucas Austin. Image: Lucasfilm, Apple Congratulations! If you believed Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai’s evidence-free assertion that someone launched a cyber attack on the agency’s website in 2017, rather than crashed after comedian John Oliver directed the audience of his insanely popular show to weigh in on Pai’s crusade to kill…

The developers of Yahoo! announced the imminent closure of Yahoo messenger! Messenger 17 July 2018. Up to this time messenger will work correctly, and after users have lost access to chat rooms and the service will stop working. Recall That Yahoo! Messenger in due time became one of the first apps of its kind, its…

Team social network Vkontakte announced the launch of new opportunities. Now you can disable comments for individual records and do not close the possibility to leave comments in all publications at once. This can be done in communities and for personal pages. The option is available and the web version of Facebook, in the coming…

The company Apple has filed a new class action lawsuit. The Kennett Sciacca (Sciacca Kenneth) filed a lawsuit in the district court of Northern California, claiming that all models of smart watches have displays with a defect are cracked, broken or separated from the body, without fault of the user, and with careful handling. A…

ASUS almost became the first company to release a smartphone with 10 GB of RAM. At least the ASUS had, several months ago she addressed the launch of the flagship with similar parameters. This was told by Roland Quandt (Quandt Roland), editor of the well-known regular leaks of the German resource WinFuture, using your Twitter…

Sony Mobile Communications announced the start of international sales of advanced wireless headset Ear Xperia Duo. Sales start in many European countries. In Russia it is offered at a suggested retail price of 19 990 rubles. Interestingly, in addition to supporting voice assistants Siri and Google Assistant, Xperia Ear Duo became the first wearable device…

Photo: Getty Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but it looks like Facebook may have been sharing more of your data than you thought it was. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the social network cut deals with a number of companies to provide access to user records and friend data even…