Commentary: A Frenchman is suing Uber for $48 million, after he claims a technical problem with the app informed his wife of his movements.
“He’s gone where? Where?! ”
For better or for worse.
This famous phrase describes our committed relationship with technology.
We go through bad times. A website won’t load, an app keeps crashing. But we stay together, because in each other we see the future.
A businessman from the Côte d’Azur in France, though, believes technology has destroyed his marriage. Specifically, Uber’s technology.
As Le Figaro reports , he claims there was a bug in the Uber app, one that enabled others to view his comings and goings. Actually, it was a very significant other, he says, who knew where he’d been — his wife.
More precisely, his ex-wife. The man claims that he borrowed his then wife’s iPhone and logged into the Uber app.
He says that after he logged off, his Uber activity was still relayed via helpful notifications on her phone. One can only surmise that his movements didn’t please his wife, as the lawsuit says that she divorced him.
So, to assuage his pain, the man is asking for Uber to pay 45 million euros (around $48 million). The case is expected to receive its first hearing next month.
Uber didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. It did tell Le Figaro, however: “Uber doesn’t comment publicly on individual cases, and especially on cases that involve a divorcing couple. ”
I’m not sure why divorces deserve special consideration. Perhaps Uber is reacting to accusations from rivals that it’s a nasty, insensitive company.
Le Figaro reveals that it was able to replicate the hurt man’s problem. A second iPhone was sent notifications without a password, it says. It says the bug doesn’t, however, give details of your exact destination, nor of real-time geolocation. Indeed, some on Twitter have noticed this issue too.
Of course, technology can lead to all sorts of relationship problems. Lovers sometimes guess passwords, accidentally (or not) see notifications or even discover secret Facebook relationships. Then, there is hell to pay. If you’re lucky, purgatory might ensue.
There was an another quirk in the alleged Uber bug. Le Figaro identified the glitch as only occurring on iPhones where the app was updated after December 16 of last year and not at all on Android phones.
Could there be a better reason for meandering, possibly philandering Frenchmen to switch to Android than this, especially with Valentine’s Day lurking so closely?

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Research has finally determined how to tell if your moves in the club just aren’t cutting it, adding to what we’ve already known about men for years.
You go, girl.
Science says women should let their hips swing and make sure their legs and arms feel the beat if they want to be judged as a good dancer.
A study published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports hints at the key to sexy dance moves right at the front of its decidedly unsexy title: “Optimal asymmetry and other motion parameters that characterise high-quality female dance. ”
Specifically, the authors found that asymmetric movements of the thighs and arms as well as hip swing are the most highly rated dance moves for women.
Don’t worry, the study wasn’t conducted by a group of creepy dudes in labcoats ogling dancing female volunteers. Instead, researchers from Northumbria University in the UK used 3D motion capture to record 39 women dancing to a basic drum beat and render their movements into computer-generated avatars that remove all information about their individual physical appearance.
A total of 57 women and 143 women then watched 15-second clips of the 39 avatars dancing and rated their moves.
The study’s break down of what makes for great dancing is just as unsexy as its aforementioned title:
“Higher ratings were awarded to (1) greater hip swing (i.e. to a greater standard deviation of the spine lateral flexion/extension angle); (2) more asymmetric thigh movements (i.e. to a greater standard deviation of the difference between the differentiated left hip joint angle and the differentiated right hip joint angle time series); and (3) moderate asymmetric arm movements. ”
Translation: Swing those hips and let your body follow! Watch a sample of a “good dancer” as determined by the data in the below video.
And here’s a sample of a “bad dancer,” who seems to be perhaps a little more inhibited or just not feelin’ it.
The researchers speculate that what we see as quality dancing might have a function in courtship and choosing a mate. They note that hip swing and thigh movement might be “emphatically feminine traits” that enhance attractiveness. Asymmetric movements of the arms and thighs might also indicate high-quality motor control.
So why only rate women’s dancing? According to the study, there are no existing “functionally-motivated studies (that) have analyzed the patterns of movements that improve positive perceptions of female dance. ”
Did you miss it dance fans? The verdict has already been rendered on the best dance moves for guys, all the way back in 2010.
“Previous research has shown that male dance quality can be predicted by variability in the amplitude of neck and trunk movements together with the speed of movement of the right knee,” the new study reads.
Science has spoken. The most perfect dance consists of a woman swinging her hips and getting down in a generally coordinated fashion while avoiding the rapid-fire jabbing movements of her partner’s knee.

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NVIDIA’s fiscal year for 2017 ended on January 29, 2017, and for the fourth quarter and full year, NVIDIA reports they had…
NVIDIA’s fiscal year for 2017 ended on January 29, 2017, and for the fourth quarter and full year, NVIDIA reports they had record revenues. For Q4 2017, NVIDIA is reporting revenue of $2.173 billio.n, up 55% from a year ago. Gross margin came in at 60.0%, which is up 3.5% from Q4 2016. Operating income for the quarter was $733 million, up 191%, and net income was up 216% to $655 million. The very high growth in operating income and net income are even more impressive, since Q4 2016 was also a record for them at the time. NVIDIA reported $0.99 per share earnings for this quarter, up 183%.
Even though 2016 was a record year for NVIDIA, 2017 was even better. NVIDIA reported record revenue of $6.91 billion for the full fiscal year 2017, which is up 38% from a year ago, and had a net income of $1.666 billion. Earnings per share for the year were $2.57. They also repurchased $739 million in shares over the last year, and paid $261 million in dividends.
The majority of NVIDIA’s revenue came from their Gaming segment, which includes their GeForce GPUs. The launch of Pascal has clearly been very successful, and for the quarter NVIDIA’s Gaming segment had revenues of $1.348 billion, up from $810 million a year ago. This is a gain of 66.4% year-over-year, on a market they were already at the top of. This quarter, they also launched the GeForce GTX 1050 and 1050 Ti mobile GPUs, and a new SHIELD TV, along with unveiling the GeForce NOW game streaming service.
Professional Visualization had much more modest growth, being up “only” 10.8% from last year, with revenues of $225 million for the quarter. They just launched the GP100 Quadro though, so it may have even more growth to come.
Datacenter has been a big focus from NVIDIA in diversifying their portfolio, and this quarter they had some announcements here as well, with a collaboration with Microsoft on the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, powered by Microsoft Azure cloud running on NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning system. They unveiled the DGX SATURNV AI supercomputer, and partnered with the National Cancer Institute and US Department of Energy to build CANDLE to “advance cancer research”. The growth of NVIDIA’s Datacenter segment has been almost exponential, and it is now the second largest source of revenue for the company. For Q4 2017, NVIDIA reported $296 million in revenue from this segment, up from $97 million a year ago, or an increase of 205.1%.
NVIDIA has also diversified into Automotive with their Tegra lineup, after originally releasing it as a mobile SoC. This has also been a boon for the company, and they are now powering self-driving cars, and the infotainment systems of major manufacturers like Audi, and Mercedes-Benz, and they’ve partnered with Bosch on self-driving systems as well. This segment saw revenues of $128 million for the quarter, up from $93 million a year ago, or 37.6%.
Finally, the OEM and IP segment had revenues of $176 million, down from $198 million a year ago. Although this dropped, it’s likely due to the loss of the $66 million/quarter they were receiving from Intel as part of the settlement agreement made in 2011 , which Intel paid it’s last payment in January 2016.
For next quarter, NVIDIA is expecting revenues of $1.9 billion, plus or minus 2%, and gross margins between 59.5 and 59.7%.
The diversification of NVIDIA from a purely GPU company has clearly paid dividends, especially when their core market is doing as well as it is. The datacenter growth is clearly very high margin as well, considering the jump in net income for the quarter.
Source: NVIDIA Investor Relations

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