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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Sometimes you’ve got to make a TV show but you don’t want to walk, maybe because it’s raining or it’s already pretty late, and you absolutely don’t want to make a TV show with a regular taxi. So what do you do? Obviously you take out your phone, open up the app, and call an Uber… or, if you’re Showtime, you call for a season of a TV show about Uber. As announced today in a press release, Showtime has picked up Super Pumped, an anthology serie...

California’s wildfire season is already underway, and state investigators are looking into what ignited a 1,325-acre brush fire in Los Angeles County. The app Citizen set off a search by users, though, for a man baselessly accused of starting the blaze.

Alerts Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber, speaks at the 2018 NOAH conference on June 6, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. Photo: Michele Tantussi (Getty Images) The future of doing drugs is starting to look a lot like the future of everything else: suspiciously cheap and easy. Advertisement Amid a new wave of cannabis legalization around the U.S., Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC on Monday that his company may eventually roll its way into the weed business. “When the road is clear for cannabis—whe...

Photo: Robyn Beck (Getty Images) Ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft are teaming up to make sure creeps who have been kicked off their platforms stay off their platforms. Advertisement The two announced a partnership Thursday along with background screening firm HireRight to create a database on drivers who were deactivated for committing serious offenses, including physical and sexual assault, as part of their new Industry Sharing Safety Program. Passenger-safety concerns have dogged Uber and...

LinkedIns Co-Founder Is Going in on Flying Taxis, Which Are Definitely Realistic This Time Screenshot: Joby Aviation (Fair Use) Time and time again, tech companies have promised a future where commuters will be able to zip around in the flying cars from The Jetsons. And time and time again, that just hasn’t happened. Advertisement That’s because the practical engineering challenges are immense—building small, electrically powered vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft would req...

Photo: PhotographerIncognito (Shutterstock) Getting an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine is hard enough, but for some people, that’s only the first of many challenges in the process. A lot of people aren’t fortunate enough to have their own car, or live in a city where they’re able to reach their vaccine appointment on foot or using public transit (if that’s an option they’re comfortable with). Advertisement And even if they do have friends, family or neighbors who’d be more than ...

By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc on Wednesday appealed a $59 million fine by a California regulator in a dispute over whether the company should share detailed information on sexual assault and harassment claims reported on its ride-hailing platform. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) fined Uber in December after the company refused to share the information, including full names and contact information, arguing that doing so would violate victims rights to priv...