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Image: Serve RoboticsYour next food delivery could make its way to you via a robot.Uber Eats is set to release 2,000 delivery robots into the wild through an expansion of the company’s deal with Serve Robotics.Cops Pull Over Self-Driving CarServe Robotics is an independent company which spun out from Uber in 2021 following the company’s acquisition of Postmates the year prior. Uber Eats announced that it would begin testing autonomous delivery using Serve Robotics models in West Hollywood last May, and this new update…

Watching endless TikTok videos will become a lucrative pastime for the three social media users who land a job that will pay them to continuously scroll through the app. Ubiquitous, an influencer marketing agency, announced it will pay $100 per hour for successful applicants to scroll through TikTok for 10 hours straight searching for “emerging trending topics.” The job was posted on the Ubiquitous site and advertises the position as The TikTok Watchdog Job 2.0. The company says it’ll select three applicants who will…

Image: Soren IversonAt the tail end of 2022, screenshots of bizarre app features started going viral on Twitter. They rested just on the line between plausible and absurd. Google isn’t going to add punctuality scores to calendar invites, but it could if it wanted to. Or what if Instagram sent a warning if you accidentally like a three year old photo during a late night stalking session? It might actually be useful, as long as the company doesn’t charge you $5 for it.Soren Iverson is the man behind the memes. As a product…

Former CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried was already ordered to live every millennial’s nightmare and move back in with his parents. Now, prosecutors have laid out how SBF is being grounded, curtailing his ability to access the internet or even play any online video games.Is This the End of Apple’s Lightning Cable?Bankman-Fried, who commonly goes by “SBF” online, is awaiting trial regarding 12 fraud, conspiracy, and campaign finance charges regarding his time heading the now-bankrupt FTX. According to…

Uber Eats has said that it will shut down thousands of online-only brands from its app this week as the platform is being flooded by restaurants listing the same food options with different names.According to The Wall Street Journal, the number of virtual restaurants on Uber Eats quadrupled to more than 40,000 this year from over 10,000 in 2021, accounting for 8 per cent of Uber Eats' storefronts listed in the US and Canada but less than 2 per cent of bookings in the region.Virtual restaurants (or online-only brands),…

Image: Tomohiro Ohsumi (Getty Images)Uber Eats rolled out a new “View as Delivery Person” feature this week to combat uncomfortable experiences or concerns customers may have with their delivery driver. The new feature will allow customers to see what personal data and information their driver/biker/scooter-ershave access to during each stage of the delivery process.The feature will show a live feed of what the customers’ delivery person has access to at each stage from picking up the food to commuting to the customers’…

Police have not mentioned that there was any stalker involved in the incident purportedly involving Elon Musk’s 2-year-old son.Photo: Joshua Lott (Getty Images)Police investigating Elon Musk’s claim that his two-year-old son, X Æ A-12, was followed by a “crazy stalker” in Los Angeles because of public flight information have cast doubt on the billionaire’s version of what happened.In a statement released on Tuesday, the South Pasadena police said they were investigating a report of “an assault with a deadly weapon…

Uber Technologies Inc. said it’s investigating the hack of a third-party vendor that reportedly resulted in the leak of data from the ride-hailing company, including employee email addresses. Uber Technologies Inc. said it's investigating the hack of a third-party vendor that reportedly resulted in the leak of data from the ride-hailing company, including employee email addresses. The vendor, Teqtivity, which helps manage and track information technology equipment such as phones and computers, on Monday confirmed…

Ubers are getting a mind of their own. Photo: Uber / MotionalFor the first time, Uber customers will be able to hail a third-party autonomous vehicle in the company’s app—at least in Las Vegas. The rideshare service is partnering with autonomous vehicle company Motional to offer robotaxi rides in the Nevada city. The program is starting out as a pilot wherein users who opt-in for an autonomous ride won’t be charged for the service. But ending up in a free robotaxi will take a little bit of luck, for now. Users in Las…

US ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies and driverless tech-maker Motional have launched their public robotaxi service in Las Vegas on Wednesday. Tough regulatory scrutiny and delayed commercial adoption of autonomous vehicle technology have delayed deployment of robotaxi services, leaving investors worried. The launch is part of a non-exclusive 10-year agreement between both the companies for driverless vehicles, with a rollout in Los Angeles expected to follow.In the multi-market deal, Motional's autonomous vehicles…