Uber Technologies is offering data from trips on its ride-hailing platform to city officials, planners and policymakers to help them better understand traffic patterns and improve investments in infrastructure. The move will likely win Uber goodwill with city officials, even as the company has resisted other bids for data by some cities. New York, for example, wants to collect trip records from vehicles on hire to monitor adherence to driver fatigue regulations, which Uber has rejected citing individual privacy issues. Some of the data collected by Uber over 2 billion trips across 450 cities will be provided under the new…
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Razer had a strong showing at CES 2017 with two particularly interesting PC prototypes: Projects Valerie and Ariana. Unfortunately, at least one person—possibly more—was a little too interested in Razer’s activity at CES. Company CEO Min-Liang Tan announced on Facebook Monday morning that two of Razer’s prototypes were stolen from the company’s CES booth. Further reading: The weird, wild, and powerful PC hardware of CES 2017 It’s not clear if Razer’s headlining prototype devices were the ones stolen at CES, but they’d clearly be of interest to any prospective tech thieves lurking around the Las Vegas show floor. Project Valerie…
The 2016 Galaxy A series was promised an update to 7.0 Nougat and a version of the software is already under testing – a Galaxy A5 (2016) posted a score to the Geekbench database running Android 7.0. Note that this was the version with an Exynos 7580 Octa chipset, something that may have an effect on timing (the A5 2016 model is also available with a Snapdragon 615 chipset). We poked around to see if any other phones of the 2016 A lineup put in a score. The most recent results we found were still on 6.0.1. Still, Samsung will…
Asus Zenfone 3 owners, it’s time to update your beloved device to Android 7.0 Nougat. Asus is ready with the software update and it’s available in the Philippines, but will surely spread to more countries in the coming hours and days. The Android 7.0 Nougat update adds the Multiwindow support for launching two apps at the same time. Battery life should see improvement, too, as the enhanced Doze battery saving feature is also debuting with Nougat. Asus has fiddled with the UI design by adding its own little touches here and there. If you don’t like them, third-party custom launchers…
Samsung is working on its new virtual assistant set to debut on the Galaxy S8 and it’ll be called Bixby. That’s not exactly new information, as it was initially rumored back in November last year. Nevertheless, it’s now listed on Samsung’s official website, giving it that much more credibility than before. Bixby will be integrated in Samsung’s own Android apps as well as Samsung Pay Mini. The latter will be a lighter, stripped-down version of the company’s mobile payment system. It will be able to make online payments only, whereas the full-blown version of Samsung Pay also allows transactions in…
Fiscal stimulus brought about by the new administration may not kickstart growth as aggressively as many think, San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams told CNBC on Thursday. “More fiscal stimulus, I think, will have a modest effect on economic growth over the next couple of years,” the nonvoting Fed official told “Power Lunch.” President-elect Donald Trump has proposed steep increases in infrastructure spending that he says will stimulate the economy. Though Williams said he raised his predictions for fiscal stimulus under a Trump presidency, his growth predictions landed well under many analyst estimates that put growth over the next…
VCG | Getty Images Fins are removed as sharks are procesed on May 20, 2011 in Puqi town, Yueqing city of Zhejiang Province, China. Shark fin soup is considered a delicacy in China carrying a symbolic significance of wealth and prestige. Air China Cargo has become the first mainland carrier to ban the transport of shark fin, dealing another blow to the international trade. The carrier, which is part of Air China and responsible for cargo shipment on freight planes and the airline’s commercial aircraft, did not specify when the policy change would take effect. hana/Datacraft | Getty Images Shark’s…
Check out which companies are making headlines before the bell: Toyota Motor — Toyota’s shares slid on Friday after a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump threatened a “big border tax” on the company if it decides to build its Corolla cars in Mexico for the purpose of selling them in the United States. Sears — The retail giant sold its Craftsman brand for $900 million and closed 150 stores, facing struggling sales and compounding losses. Amgen — The drugmaker won a federal court case against rivals Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals that said they infringed on a patent for Amgen’s new…
Workers in December got their biggest raise since the recession ended in 2009, the clearest signal yet that if the Fed’s job of jump-starting the economy isn’t completely finished, the end is getting pretty close. Fed Chair Janet Yellen and her central bank cohorts have bemoaned the lack of wage growth even as the headline unemployment rate has tumbled from a high of 10 percent back in October 2009 all the way down to 4.7 percent last month. The pattern of 2 percent or so gains through most of the recovery has kept the Fed rooted to its policy of…
Addressing the Youth Youth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017, Javadekar said “We have finalised guidelines and soon will implement the policy to set up 20 world class universities in India, ten from private and ten from public institutions HRD minister Prakash Javadek at Youth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2017 (Image source: https://twitter.com/PrakashJavdekar) RELATED STORIES CBSE Class 12 Boards 2017: Expected to be postponed by a week due to assembly elections Haryana: Schools directed to provide information on staff CBSE school associations to meet in Coimbatore to discuss management issues Kashmir University exams 2017 postponed UP Board Exams 2017: Likely to start from…