The Real Madrid ace is on course to join Chelsea after they agreed a deal to sign the Spain international yesterday. Conte will finally land a new striker at Stamford Bridge, with key target Morata expected to undergo a medical today. Morata has been away with the Madrid squad on their pre-season tour in LA. […]
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Lord of the Rings: Tolkien Estate settle £60 MILLION lawsuit – Does this mean NEW movies?
After five years, a legal battle between the author’s estate and the film studio has finally been resolved. Back in 2012 the Tolkien Estate filed a $ 80 million (£61 million) lawsuit, claiming that Warner Bros, New Line Cinema and Lord of the Rings and Hobbit rights holder Saul Zaentz Co. had infringed copyright. According […]
Better Call Saul Recap: Settle for Me
Need to catch up? Check out our previous Better Call Saul recap here. With the Season 3 finale fast approaching, this week’s Better Call Saul had big consequences for Jimmy and Kim, as their career paths veered sharply in opposite directions. (“Veered” being the operative word.) Jimmy’s still hustling for cash with his law license […]
How chatbots can settle an insurance claim in 3 seconds
GUEST: At Amazon’s prototype grocery store, Amazon Go, customers can walk in, pick up what they want and walk out, without ever waiting in a checkout line or pulling out a wallet. Amazon will automatically charge their account and send them a receipt. Run out of paper towels? No problem. Amazon Prime customers can place […]
BMW, Mazda, Toyota, and Subaru Settle $553 Million Civil Suit for Takata Airbags
– Four automakers—Toyota, Subaru, BMW, and Mazda—have agreed to pay a combined $ 553 million for economic losses related to the Takata airbag recalls. – The automakers have jointly settled a class-action lawsuit demanding owners be compensated while their cars are undergoing repairs. Miami-based law firm Podhurst Orseck announced it filed an agreement with the […]
Zurich Insurance employs robots to settle personal injury claims
Published time: 18 May, 2017 15:08 Switzerland’s largest insurer is starting to use machines to decide personal injury claims. A series of trials showed the processing time could be cut from an hour to just seconds. “We recently introduced artificial intelligence (AI) claims handling and saved 40,000 work hours while speeding up the claim processing […]
Great migration: Female wolf found to have travelled 500km to settle in rural Denmark
Published time: 6 May, 2017 21:29 Wolves may be making a comeback in rural Denmark after at least five of the creatures were found to have settled in the west of the country. Peter Sunde,, a prominent zoologist from Aarhus University, claims to have obtained DNA evidence that not only proves wolves have returned to […]
San Francisco, Airbnb settle lawsuit over new short-term rental law
(credit: Open Grid Scheduler / flickr) The City and County of San Francisco have settled a lawsuit filed by Airbnb, which had sued over the city’s new short-term rental registration law. As Ars has reported before, the new law expands upon a previous ordinance that Airbnb itself helped initially draft. The earlier law went into […]
Instagram, Twitter, and others could pay $5.3 million to settle app privacy lawsuit
Did you download popular apps like Yelp or Twitter to an Apple device between 2009 and 2012? If so, you could be in line for a small payout thanks to a proposed privacy settlement unveiled in court documents this week. Under the terms of the settlement, which was filed in San Francisco federal court Monday, […]
Lyft agrees to pay $27 million to settle driver classification lawsuit
(credit: Kãrlis Dambrãns) About 200,000 former and current Lyft drivers in California and their lawyers are to divvy up a combined $ 27 million under the settlement of a class action. The lawsuit involved the drivers’ classification as hired contractors and not employees. Attorneys are to get about $ 3.6 million of the pot. However, […]
