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DTNS 3105 – Google Flexes Its ARCore

Google’s ARCore and the state of augmented reality, plus Apple’s fight for 4K and Enterprise success.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 29, 2017

NYPD ditches 36,000 Windows Phones, Apple teams up with Accenture for custom business app design and movie studios want Apple to charge more for 4K movies.

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DTNS 3104 – Uber Uses Expedia to Find CEO

Uber gets a new CEO, Microsoft shows off VR products, Amazon’s brave new grocery world.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 28, 2017

Uber may have a new CEO, Microsoft shows off Windows Mixed Reality devices, Fitbit has a new smart watch.

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DTH Sunday History Break

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DTH Saturday History Break

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DTNS 3103 – Pepper Don’t Preach

Pepper the robot becomes a Buddhist priest, self-driving trucks hit the roads and whether Just in Time Learning from YouTube is good bad or otherwise.

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Daily Tech Headlines – August 25, 2017

Samsung’s heir sentenced to jail, HTC considers selling Vive VR, and Amazon officially swallows Whole Foods.

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Your Private Driver: Surging the System

This is a weekly column that offers news, insights, analysis, and user tips for transportation network company (TNC) platforms like Uber and Lyft. Well, usually weekly, but the author has been somewhat preoccupied with a new job, new intensive schedule, and an upcoming move. He apologizes for the lack of content updates.

A new study has been making headlines this month claiming the Uber drivers have been finding ways to game the system to force riders to pay inflated Surge fares. Completed jointly by Warwick Business School and New York University, it claims to have found evidence that drivers are using tactics like logging off en-masse to artificially reduce the supply of available vehicles relative to demand, triggering Uber’s Surge algorithm to go into effect.Continue reading “Your Private Driver: Surging the System”

DTNS 3102 – Facebook Echos Amazon’s Show

Apple’s phone price gamble, HTC might sell off Vive and Facebook’s hardware challenges.
With Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young and Roger Chang.

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