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By Dara Kerr Uber has quietly changed the way it pays drivers in several major cities across the U.S., using a new feature it’s calling “Upfront Fares.” Instead of paying drivers for trips based on just time and distance, it’s now using an algorithm “based on several factors” to calculate the fare. What all of those factors are is unclear. Uber has long used an upfront pricing algorithm to determine how much passengers pay, which is one of the reasons riders sometimes see vast price fluctuations. The compan
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Egypt’s hotel pipeline looks extraordinary on paper — the real story is whether financing, construction, and demand can keep pace with ambition. Read more ›
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5 new deals and $180M+ invested into NYC startups for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending 5/9 featuring news for Reserv, Bathhouse, MOTHER.Tech, and much, much more. Read more ›
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Я самую малость обленился и как-то давно не делал новых разборов, поэтому следующим нашим этапом деконструкции будут низкоуровневые операции. Иногда здесь будет в отрыве от аллокаторов/планировщиков и прочего, но опять же, статьи для тех, кто знает и хочет разобраться поглубже, как тут всё устроено.Поэтому, в этой части начнем с самого простого – пакета atomic.Концепции вокруг атомарных операций на уровне CPU я рассматривал здесь, поэтому советую почитать. Там мы даже пишем... Read more ›
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My father with dementia needed full-time care in an assisted living facility. The cost and scarcity of elder care is difficult for families like mine. Read more ›
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The two sides are meeting through South Korea's National Labor Relations Commission after earlier rounds of mediation in February and March collapsed. Read more ›
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A built-in refrigerator can be one of the priciest kitchen upgrades, but Consumer Reports testing points to one model with standout scores and useful features. Read more ›
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And that’s a wrap! The 2026 edition of the EU-Startups Summit has officially come to a close. Over two action-packed days in Malta, and about 2,400 founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts came together to exchange ideas, find inspiration, and make meaningful connections. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in sunny Malta – ... Read more ›
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Social network Reddit recently began blocking mobile visitors to its website while pushing them to download the official Reddit app, and it's fair to say that the move is not going down well with users. If you visit reddit.com on your iPhone today, you may see a new popup that can't be dismissed, asking you to "get the app to keep using Reddit." A Reddit spokesperson told Ars Technica that... Read more ›
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MediaTek is expected to unveil the Dimensity 9600 SoC later this year as its next flagship chip, but the company is also working on the Dimensity 8600 upper-midrange SoC as well. This is important because in recent times, MediaTek's Dimensity 8 series chips have dominated AnTuTu benchmark ratings for upper-midrange phones - it kind of seems like Qualcomm has decided to just hand over this market to MediaTek. And so,... Read more ›
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Between May 6 and 7, it was dangerous to install JDownloader from alternative links on the site. Read more ›
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We still don't know much about Gears of War: E-Day, but that's set to change next month, when the cover-based third-person shooter prequel gets its own time to shine directly after the next Xbox Games Showcase 2026. However, we might have learned about the potential release window earlier than intended. Read more Read more ›
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Box's CEO said the new "AI Business Automation Engineer" role is similar to Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model, but for internal functions. Read more ›
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TikTok is preparing to roll out a paid, ad-free version of its app in the UK. The new subscription announced today will be available to users over 18 "over the coming months," according to TikTok's announcement, and will cost £3.99 (about $5.40) per month. In exchange for that, TikTok will remove ads from the user's […] Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Электрогитара для начинающего музыканта, если это школьник, должна быть лёгкой и желательно недорогой. А самое главное — вдохновлять на творческие свершения и помогать, а не мешать успехам в освоении премудростей музыки и техники игры.Сегодня мы узнаем, насколько годится на такую роль инструмент из коллекции Cкваер Дебют, само название которой прямо на это намекает. Спойлер: годится, но пришлось потрудиться. Read more ›
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Tom’s Hardware Premium is available from $7 a month, or $29 per-year when subscribing annually. It offers insights you won’t find anywhere else, tapping into the beating heart of an industry that’s shifting beneath our feet in real-time. Read more ›
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Marvel's next TV special will hit Disney+ in the very near future — here's when you'll be able to watch it. Read more ›
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Researchers at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new cloud collaboration platform (InvizCrypt) that offers true privacy, giving users much stronger control over who can access their sensitive data and documents. The InvizCrypt platform, developed by Professor Hitesh Tewari and colleagues from Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics and ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin, is designed […] Read more ›
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Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust will list on the NYSE under BXDC, targeting newly built data centres leased to hyperscalers. It is the most direct way Wall Street has yet packaged the AI build-out for public investors. For most of the past 18 months, the financial story behind the AI build-out has been a story about […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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OpenAI has finalised the most structurally novel enterprise AI deal of 2026: a $10bn vehicle anchored by TPG, with 19 investors and a 17.5% guaranteed annual return over five years. The strategy is to make PE portfolios a captive distribution channel. We wrote about the venture’s outline last month; Monday’s confirmation closes the funding question. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that offers business-to-business (B2B) Software as a Service (SaaS), offering several products to hospitality businesses, to facilitate […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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A new Bloomberg-Feroot investigation finds that nine of the 10 largest US health companies are still loading advertising trackers on the very pages where patients log in and register. The story keeps repeating because nothing has stopped it. There is, by now, a familiar shape to investigations of online tracking. A reporter or researcher loads […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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An Anthropic AI model that can find zero-days in every major operating system has become a geopolitical and prudential question. The Eurogroup met in Brussels on Monday with no answer in hand. Brussels on a Monday morning in early May is not, by tradition, the place where the world’s most powerful AI model gets discussed. […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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The European Commission has formally recommended that member states keep Huawei and ZTE out of their connectivity infrastructure. The same restrictions are now moving toward becoming legally binding. China has already threatened to retaliate. When the European Commission first asked its member states to keep Huawei and ZTE out of their 5G networks, in the […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Eighteen months after a €9m pre-seed, the Freiburg-based pioneer of TabPFN is being acquired by SAP and will receive more than €1bn over four years. The terms are not disclosed; the strategic intent is unmistakable. When Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, and Sauraj Gambhir founded Prior Labs in early 2024, the AI world was paying attention […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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As institutional crypto adoption accelerates, security standards are becoming a defining factor in provider selection. CryptoProcessing by Coinspaid, a regulated crypto payment gateway serving enterprise and institutional merchants globally, has achieved Level 3 certification under the Cryptocurrency Security Standard (CCSS) for its Institutional-Grade Key Management and Wallet Infrastructure, the highest designation granted by the CryptoCurrency […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Ryan Cohen announced on Saturday that GameStop has submitted an unsolicited, non-binding proposal to acquire eBay for $125 per share, a cash-and-stock offer valuing the e-commerce company at approximately $55.5 billion. GameStop’s market capitalisation at the time of the offer was $11.9 billion. eBay’s was $46.2 billion. The company proposing to buy is roughly a […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Elon Musk texted Greg Brockman two days before trial to ask about settling. Brockman suggested Musk drop all claims against the individuals. Musk replied: “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be.” The exchange, disclosed in a court […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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