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Ride-share veteran Uber Technologies has announced a long term partnership with autonomous vehicle developer Nuro, whose zero-occupant EVs will deliver food to Uber Eats customers around the US. The ten-year deal will kick off this fall in Texas and California before expanding further. As pioneers of the rideshare revolution beginning over a decade ago, Uber Technologies ($UBER) continues to grow and adapt to a world focused on reducing carbon emissions and instant gratification, like having tacos delivered right…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Listeners of the true crime podcast Teacher's Pet were vindicated last Tuesday when 74-year-old Chris Dawson was found guilty of murdering his wife Lynette in Sydney nearly 40 years ago. …

Olivia Wilde has broken her silence on being served custody papers by her ex-fiancé Jason Sudeikis while on stage at CinemaCon, calling it a “sabotage” attempt.In April, the 38-year-old director was presenting her forthcoming Harry Styles-led thriller Don’t Worry Darling – expected to release on 23 September – to a crowd of film industry executives, when a court process server handed her custody papers.At the time, Sudeikis said he had no prior knowledge that she was going to be served at the convention, saying he was…

Olivia Wilde is currently preparing for the release of her latest film, Don’t Worry Darling, a psychological thriller set in the 1950s. In the lead-up to the film’s debut, the actress and director experienced an unexpected personal development though. While on stage promoting the feature at CinemaCon this past April, Wilde was served with legal papers by her ex-partner, Jason Sudeikis. Wilde had remained mum on the situation since it occurred, but she’s now opening about getting the legal documents in front of a live…

To watch this engagingly silly and self-aware comedy is akin to inhaling a good-sized tank of nitrous oxide. Adapted by Suzanne Allain from her own novel and directed by Emma Holly Jones, making her feature debut, it is a romantic Regency romp in the diverse, postcolonial “alt-history” universe popularised by Bridgerton on TV. And casting people of colour as fictional British aristocrats in the declining years of George III need be no more of an affectation than having non-white people play factual kings in Shakespeare’s…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-JQU_bShc Do Revenge is the new Netflix film whose latest trailer teases a very different kind of teen comedy. In a plot that resembles Mean Girls mixed with Horrible Bosses, Camila Mendes’ Drea and Maya Hawke’s Eleanor agree to “go after one another’s bullies,” according to the synopsis on IMDb. Both Mendes and Hawke have starred in iconic teen drama shows in recent years, making them arguably the perfect pair to co-star in their own breakout movie. While Mendes stars as…

The government is looking into cases of alleged tax evasion by Chinese mobile companies Oppo, Vivo India and Xiaomi and notices have been given to them, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The Department of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has issued a notice to Oppo for total customs duty of Rs 4,389 crore and these are on the grounds of misdeclaration of certain goods leading to a short payment in customs duty, she said, adding, "duty evasion we think is about Rs 2,981 crore". "Undervaluation…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Even if they've never served time in prison, people who have felony convictions still have difficulty accessing stable housing, according to new research from a Rice University sociologist. …

Alphabet's Google was fined 21.8 billion roubles ($387 million) on Monday by a Russian court for a repeated failure to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, the Interfax news agency reported. Russia has long objected to foreign tech platforms' distribution of content that fall foul of its restrictions, but what had been a simmering dispute has erupted into a full-on battle since Moscow assembled its armed forces before sending them into Ukraine in February. Late last year, Google was fined 7.2 billion roubles for…

The world's largest crypto exchange, Binance, continued to process trades by clients in Iran despite US sanctions and a company ban on doing business there. In 2018, the United States reimposed sanctions that had been suspended three years earlier as part of Iran's nuclear deal with major world powers. That November, Binance informed traders in Iran it would no longer serve them, telling them to liquidate their accounts. Seven traders said they skirted the ban. The traders said they continued to use their Binance accounts…