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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 series about stories “that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture,” with its first...

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—when federal laws come into play—we’re absolutely going to take a look at it,” Khosrowshahi said ...

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 Lyft for years along with dozens of complaints and lawsuits claiming the companies failed to adequa...

LinkedIn's 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 require a massive leap in technology over helicopters. It’s also because many of the business models...