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Airbnb said it will start collecting San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax on behalf of hosts. The move counters critics who’ve claimed that the company has willfully dodged taxes to get ahead of traditional competitors in the hotel industry. But as Airbnb has grown up and is now poised to command a possible $10 billion Continue Reading →

Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to pay $57 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the personal computer maker’s former management of defrauding shareholders by abandoning a business model it had long touted. The lawsuit was filed after former Chief Executive Leo Apotheker shocked investors on August 18, 2011 by announcing plans to refocus the company on Continue Reading →

While there’s no question that using a cell phone to text, talk or surf the web while driving is a dangerous practice that can lead to accidents, technology as a whole has actually had a positive impact in reducing accidents on the road. According to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, traffic Continue Reading →

While there’s no question that using a cell phone to text, talk or surf the web while driving is a dangerous practice that can lead to accidents, technology as a whole has actually had a positive impact in reducing accidents on the road. According to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, traffic Continue Reading →

While there’s no question that using a cell phone to text, talk or surf the web while driving is a dangerous practice that can lead to accidents, technology as a whole has actually had a positive impact in reducing accidents on the road. According to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, traffic Continue Reading →

On Monday morning, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella announced that Scott Guthrie is now the executive vice president of its Cloud and Enterprise group, Phil Spencer will run its Xbox work, and that, when the Nokia acquisition closes, former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop will pick up the title of executive vice president of the Devices group. Continue Reading →

Dell Research, a new division of the recently privatized Dell, is conducting early experiments with brain and body sensors to detect a person’s mood for use in computers involved with education and communications. It could also be used to monitor a person’s mood while driving or playing games. The mood experiments are among others underway Continue Reading →

The ability to recognize human faces has always been a benchmark for artificial intelligence. Facebook’s new facial recognition technology–called DeepFace–comes astonishingly close to human intelligence in that measure. Although it’s currently still a research project–which Facebook will present as a paper at a computer vision conference this June–DeepFace has shown itself to be almost as Continue Reading →

You’ve probably heard that you’ll find the cheapest airfare on a Tuesday. But according to a new study from travel startup Hopper, that’s a myth. So when can you find the best fares? Hopper monitored ticket prices from the month of January to find that the answer to that for both domestic and international travel Continue Reading →

Monday is officially the last day to sign up for health insurance, and the government marketplace has stumbled twice. Following a temporary outage on Monday morning, the site was rejecting new applications outright for about 30 minutes on Monday afternoon. The issue was with new accounts only, meaning those who have already started their applications Continue Reading →