Other carriers like Lufthansa already do this.

If you are directly connected to Lufthansa through their API, they dynamically adjust their prices based on perceived demand and other inputs. (Pricing in other channels like GDS is a bit more coarse.)

They just didn't slap a big "we are so cool for using AI" self congratulatory sign on it. Thus no one thought anything of it. Adjusting pricing to maximize revenue is what any normal company does.

Source: I work in the travel industry.

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Damn, that place is cluttered.

It's like they only built the Jefferies tube and forgot the rest of the starship!

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I'd go even further and call it the Visual Basic of CMSes.

It's a playground for amateurs, and I'm amazed every time I see a well known business or organisation using it.

WordPress quickly degenerates into a mess of plugins and crappy hacks to do any remotely useful content management outside of a banal blog.

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Them aliens sure hacked Slashdot good!

Sometimes I think the editors intentionally posts dupes just to rile people up. This article was a hilariously good choice.

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I guess I'll just have to wait for the YouTube Director's Cut.

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What?!

Entierly shot on an iPhone and there is no VV syndrome? I don't believe it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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I thought commonly used TrustZone firmwares do have revocation/rollback protection but the OEMs doesn't use it when upgrading the OS. E.g. they bundle a new Widevine version in the update but they don't actually revoke old vulnerable ones.

As explored in depth by Google's Project Zero here:

https://googleprojectzero.blog...

Or is this a real bypass that allows installing a revoked trustlet? The article was light on details.

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Opera Mini is Webcore, not Presto

No, Opera Mini uses both.

With data savings set to extreme it runs everything through Opera servers that run Presto. This is the traditional Mini mode that has been around since the beginning.

With data savings set to high it will indeed use WebView on the phone. This is a rather new feature introduced last year. The traffic is still directed through Opera servers, now using the "Opera Turbo" mode from Opera's desktop browser and the Opera for Android mobile browser.

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I ny case the OEM driver is simply stupid.

I have a Lenovo laptop with 3 buttons next to the touchpad. I prefer using the center button as just button 3, same as clicking the mouse wheel. The default simple mouse driver included in Windows works just like this.

However Windows 10 will detect that there is an "enhanced" Lenovo provided Synaptics driver and insist on installing that. This driver changes the center button to some "scroll" mode, hold the button and swipe the touchpad and it will send scroll events. This behaviour is not configurable.

To add extra insult to injury the touchpad is perfectly capable of 2-finger multitouch scrolling. The center button scroll mode is some leftover mouse-wheel emulation crap from 10 years ago before multitouch touchpads where common. It's totally not needed.

If I uninstall the "enhanced" driver Windows 10 will forcibly reinstall it for me in the evening. Gee thanks!

Nowadays I run Fedora on the laptop.

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Gruzen envisions a future in which EV owners can send autonomous cars to charging stations remotely, a future that would only be possible with wireless charging stations.

This dude and his garage begs to differ http://www.theverge.com/2016/6....

GM if anyone would have the engineering resources to put together a reliable and automatic physical charging connection.

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I expected Elliot to be elite enough to be part of the top site scene, grabbing his warez of choice through chained ftp-bouncers. All while enjoying free leech thanks to services rendered like writing up a couple of SecuROM and C-Dilla unpackers on the side of his regular network intrusion schtick.

The thought of him crawling in the BitTorrent muck with us regular plebs just makes me sad. :(

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Neither does a RFID tag.

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But who teaches the AI the meaning of the commentaries?

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Yea you are right, that sounds like a plausible way to do it.

A notification will still show up, but the app will probably have time to launch it's malicious payload using a broadcast receiver or such before the user has a chance to do anything about it.

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