2020 might be the year of reasonably okay foldable PCs, maybe

“We will bend it for you,” an Intel representative told Vjeran, The Verge’s video director, at our CES meeting. “Three times maximum.” This did not make me think that Intel is particularly confident in the durability of its foldable PC.

That’s fair enough, really. It’s only meant to be a reference design, as Intel isn’t a company that sells finished consumer electronics in the first place. But it’s an example of how this year’s CES has demonstrated the state of foldable screen technology. On one hand, the showings have convinced me that these products will be a big deal at some point. On the other, they’ve convinced me that that point is some way off.

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Intel’s Horseshoe Bend

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This is Intel’s first discrete graphics card, but you can’t buy one

The PC industry had given up on Intel ever producing its own powerful desktop graphics cards, after the company unceremoniously killed its Larrabee project ten years ago last month.

This is not that card. This is not a card you’ll be able to buy at all, in fact.

But these first pictures of the Intel DG1 show that the company has actually built a discrete graphics card, and that has to count for something.

At CES 2020 in Las Vegas, the company held a meeting with the press to clarify what the DG1 actually is, and how it’s similar — yet different — from the graphics you’ll find in Intel’s upcoming Tiger Lake chips that it says will be shipping in laptops later this year. There’s been some conflicting information on the topic, so let’s…

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Uber is making big changes to its app in California as new gig work law goes into effect

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Uber is making serious changes to its app in California in an effort to comply with the state’s groundbreaking new gig work law that makes it harder for the company to classify drivers as independent contractors.

On Wednesday, Uber emailed over 150,000 drivers and millions of passengers to alert them to the changes. The app will now display prices differently, allow users to select preferred drivers, and discontinue some benefits associated with its Uber Rewards program.

The company is betting that by giving drivers more control over their rides and making fares more transparent, they can avoid some of the repercussions of the law, which enshrines the so-called “ABC test” for determining whether someone is a contractor or employee. But…

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