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Photo: Getty Uber screwed up—big time—and now it has to pay. On Tuesday, the company copped to owing New York City drivers tens of millions of dollars due to miscalculated payments, according to a Wall Street Journal report. It’s the second time Uber has admitted to shortchanging drivers this year. According to Uber’s agreement with…

Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts. Photo: Getty A couple of weeks ago, it was discovered that a significant number of anti-net neutrality comments on the FCC’s website were being fraudulently attributed to real people. The pro-net neutrality advocacy group Fight for the Future proceeded to set up a website to raise awareness of the problem…

Image Courtesy of Nicholas Pyenson Baleen whales (Mysticeti) are vacuums of the sea. The blue whale, which is one of 12 species of baleen whales, is the largest animal in the world—AKA the biggest sea vacuum. It fuels its 200-ton body by eating tiny crustaceans called krill, which get filtered through the blue whales’ baleen.…

The company Microsoft has officially presented a new generation of its hybrid tablet Surface Pro. As expected, the successor to the Surface Pro 4 will be called Surface Pro 5 but Microsoft decided to get rid of figures showing generation. The new Surface Pro looks almost identical to its predecessor, but went with Intel Core…

At a special event in Berlin, Huawei introduced the lineup MateBook previously presented hybrid tablet based on Windows. One of the novelties, MateBook X was previously known under the code name Pascal is a portable 13-inch laptop and can be considered as a sort of alternative to the MacBook 12. The laptop is based on…

At a special event in Berlin, Huawei introduced the lineup MateBook previously presented hybrid tablet based on Windows. One of the novelties, MateBook D was previously known under the code name Watt and is a full-sized 15.6-inch laptop. The laptop is based on Intel Core i5 or i7 of the seventh generation, optional chart NVIDIA…

At a special event in Berlin, Huawei introduced the heir MateBook hybrid tablet based on Windows, went on sale last year. Huawei MateBook E was previously known under the code name Bell. The tablet is equipped with 12-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 2160 x 1440 pixels. It is based on the Intel Core i5-7Y54…

The company Meizu unveiled its new smartphone Meizu M5c. According to the company, it is its most affordable smartphone. Meizu M5c enclosed in a plastic case and comes in five color options — black, gold, red, blue, and pink. The smartphone is equipped with a 5-inch display with HD resolution (720 x 1280 pixels), 8-megapixel…

WASHINGTON – The budget proposal of the government-Trump turn sharply the knife in the American spending abroad. There is much less money available for health programs in the world, food aid, international peacekeeping, educational and cultural exchanges and the management of climate change. This is clear from documents on the budgetplan that Tuesday have been…

MANCHESTER – Thousands of people gathered Tuesday night at Albert Square in Manchester to the attack in the city to commemorate him. They held a minute’s silence out of respect for the victims. The bishop of Manchester, David Walker, put out at the beginning of the meeting a candle. Some people left flowers behind in…