The company uses machine learning to recommend restaurant specialities. …read more Source:: CNet

But T-Mobile US and Sprint? Not so much Verizon has promised to stop selling user location data to third parties in response to a privacy campaign by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).… …read more Source:: TheRegister

This new lobbying group will focus on the human cost of self-driving cars becoming widespread. …read more Source:: CNet

UBS is increasing its outlook for streaming TV services such as Sling TV and DirecTV Now, estimating that such services will make up 25% of the pay-TV market in five years. Meanwhile, USB expects traditional TV subscriptions to decline 4.1% over the next year alone. From the report: Here are some other takeaways from UBS’s…

Victory for the right to repair crowd, but a flea bite for Apple Apple is facing a $9m (AUS) slap-on-the-wrist for kicking out a firmware update that disabled some repaired iOS devices in Australia.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The tech industry is increasingly challenging President Trump on social issues. …read more Source:: CNet

Commentary: 30-pin. Lightning. USB-C? Get your dongles ready. …read more Source:: CNet

The critically savaged John Travolta film has a strangely fresh audience rating. …read more Source:: CNet

We just wrapped up the Robotics Module Challenge portion of the Hackaday Prize, and if there’s one thing robots need to do, it’s move. This usually means some sort of motor, but you’ll probably want a gear system on there as well. Gotta have that torque, you know. For his Hackaday Prize entry, [Johannes] is…

European boss says 10% of attempted transactions failed Visa has said that a “very rare” partial failure that stopped a backup switch in one of its two data centres from activating was the root cause of the incident earlier this month that saw millions of transactions declined.… …read more Source:: TheRegister