How Uber uses AI to charge you more

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Uber once sold riders on a simple promise: Order a car right from your phone for less than a taxi.

One major change happened behind the scenes: up-front pricing. Instead of relying on a predictable rate based largely on time and distance, Uber now uses algorithms and a range of real-time factors to determine what riders pay and what drivers earn.

Since then, prices have risen dramatically. From 2018

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No One Does Live-Action Adaptations Quite Like Takashi Miike

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The prolific director behind 'Ichi The Killer' and 'Audition' deserves his flowers as a master of live-action adaptations of video games, anime, and manga most directors wouldn't dare attempt.

12 celebrities who support AI

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Ben Affleck, Natasha Lyonne, and James Cameron.

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  • The use of artificial intelligence is dividing Hollywood.
  • Some people are against it for creative endeavors, and are protecting their likenesses from it.
  • Others are diving headfirst into AI ventures.

Hollywood has become a major battleground in the age of AI.

Some of the greatest storytellers in the business, like Christopher Nolan and Steven

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Devoted Health is raising a new round of funding at a $25 billion valuation

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  • Healthcare startup Devoted Health is raising a new round of funding.
  • The round could value the healthcare company at $25 billion.
  • Devoted Health was founded by brothers and former healthcare executives Ed and Todd Park

Devoted Health is the latest startup to show that combining health and AI commands a premium valuation.

Just months after

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These smartphones on soldiers' chests are becoming an important tool in the US Army's plans for a high-tech fight

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The End User Devices are attached to soldiers' chests and run on batteries carried on their backs.

US Army photo by Sgt. Nathan Arellano Tlaczani

  • US Army soldiers are using smartphones mounted on their chests for mapping and communicating.
  • Soldiers found the End User Devices useful but ran into connection issues and said they still need physical backups.
  • Army leaders used a recent exercise to assess
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Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

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Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the size" of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut.

Apple said in a statement to Bloomberg it was making the changes to "to evolve our business to deliver the

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