[ad_1] The settlement amount is considerably lower than the $100 million offer Uber proposed in 2016, but which US District Judge Edward Chen ruled to be inadequate. However, the original lawsuit involved some 385,000 drivers across California and Massachusetts. Following Chen’s rejection of the deal, Uber won an appeals court ruling that forced many drivers […]
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LG’s prototype Keurig for ice cream
[ad_1] Durability tested by Engadget.A closer look at Vivo’s all-glass, port-free concept 5G phone Vivo’s APEX concept phone doesn’t just have a slick all-glass Super Unibody design that lacks buttons and ports, it also has a full-screen fingerprint scanner. Just touch it anywhere to log in. Unfortunately, just as our intrepid reporter got a chance […]
Get ready for targeted ads on your smart TV
[ad_1] The companies are calling themselves a consortium, and they’ve dubbed this “Project OAR,” or Open Addressable Ready. Once developed, the new, open standard will make it possible for all connected TV companies to sell targeted ads in scheduled and on-demand programs. While this will theoretically make ads more successful and therefore more valuable, it […]
Magic Leap goes to the theater
[ad_1] “The Seven Ages of Man” first appeared at Sundance Film Festival last year. The three-minute experience shows a volumetrically captured actor reciting the famous speech from “As You Like It.” As he describes the human passage through stages of life, a digital tree in the background blooms then slowly wastes away. In another demo, […]
Netflix will adapt ‘Dragon’s Dogma’ as part of its big anime push
[ad_1] While it’s perhaps not Capcom’s most recognizable title, the show’s announcement could drum up interest for the Switch version of the game coming out in April and for the franchise overall. Netflix has also teamed up with the studio behind Attack on Titan to create a new original entitled Vampire in the Garden, which […]
Annihilation’ trailer teases a pretty bland movie
[ad_1] Written and directed by Tony Giglio (Death Race 2, Death Race 3), the movie follows a group of space marines responding to a distress call from a Martian moon base — the same basic premise as the original movie, so don’t feel like you need to watch the first one to get caught up. […]
‘The Division 2,’ ‘Arrested Development’ and ‘Triple Frontier’
[ad_1] The Bluths are back. A new round of Arrested Development is appearing on Netflix this week, along with its star-filled action/heist flick Triple Frontier and another season of Queer Eye. For gamers The Division 2 tops the release list, and will be available in just a few hours if you bought one of the […]
Instagram founders on Snapchat and breaking up Facebook
[ad_1] Of course, you can’t talk about Instagram without mentioning its Stories feature, which it introduced in 2016 and is now one of the staples of the app. There are now over 500 million people using Instagram Stories daily, and Facebook is confident that number is going to keep growing, since more users are leaning […]
Jessica Brillhart seeks truth in immersive media
[ad_1] Brillhart started out at Google’s creative filmmaking arm, crafting documentaries on topics like Instant Search, quantum computing and AI. But eventually, she was tapped to help the company’s early 360-degree video experiments, which led to other projects like her DeepDream VR experiment. And even though we’re several years into the rise of consumer VR, […]
NCAA March Madness Live streams on Oculus Go
[ad_1] You can also expect a Google Cloud-powered matchup suggestion tool that can personalize your bracket based on stats, o the point where it can auto-pick the bracket if you’d like. You’ll also see a dash of augmented reality with an opportunity to look at the bracket in AR on iOS devices. The multi-game Fast […]