2005-ish, I decide to help my best friend move from the east coast to Portland, OR. I had relocated to Olympia, WA about a year prior, so I had already made the trip in a box truck pulling my car on a flatbed, and generally knew what to expect in addition to having experience with [...]read moreThese Are The Worst Things That Ever Happened To You On A Road Trip
Fortnite’s battle royale mode is so huge and popular in 2024 that most people forget the game actually launched without it. And Fortnite’s former boss, Donald Mustard, revealed in a recent interview that the popular mode was basically designed in the back of a car on the way to a meeting. The Week In Games: [...]read moreFortnite’s Battle Royale Mode Was Designed During An Uber Ride
Once each year, the good folks at Uber release a compilation of items that their passengers left behind in the back of its cars. Let’s hear it if you support declaring that event a national holiday. The hardest part is deciding what to eliminate. You gotta include the live turtle and the packet of Benihana [...]read moreLeft your pet turtle or your ‘fart sensor’ in an Uber? It’s been found!
Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the New York stock exchange Thursday, making it the latest startup to choose going public via a reverse merger as an alternative path to capital needed to fund growth. The company, which spun out of Uber’s acquisition of Postmates in 2021, hits [...]read moreUber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash
Plenty of women who use rideshare services regularly send details of their trips to loved ones and take other precautionary measures, especially at night. Now, Uber is putting all its safety tools in one place, making them easier to access and allowing users to customize them so that they’d automatically switch on. In the app’s [...]read moreUber makes its safety tools easier to access and customize
Uber Eats is launching a TikTok-like short-form video feed to boost discovery and help restaurants showcase their dishes. Uber Eats’ Sr. Director of Product, Awaneesh Verma, told TechCrunch exclusively in an interview that the new feed is being tested in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. The company plans to launch the feed worldwide in [...]read moreUber Eats launches a TikTok-like video feed to boost discovery
On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Uber’s platform. The news raises questions about [...]read moreUber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won
Uber has signed a memorandum of understanding with an Indian government-backed program that aims to make mobility and commerce more accessible across the South Asian nation. The ride-hailing giant said Thursday that it will explore an integration with ONDC to explore integrations with the network and expand range of its mobility offerings on the Uber [...]read moreUber CEO says firm to explore integration with India’s ONDC
Uber, along with partners Mitsubishi Electric and autonomous robotics startup Cartken, are launching a service in Japan that will use self-driving sidewalk robots to deliver food to customers. The companies announced that the service offered through the Uber Eats app will launch in a select part of Tokyo by the end of March. An Uber [...]read moreUber Eats is launching a delivery service with Cartken’s sidewalk robots in Japan
Uber has quietly started testing a feature that lets gig workers pick up prepaid items from local stores and deliver them to customers in India. Called “Store Pickup,” the feature debuted in select U.S. cities in December and is now expanded to Delhi-NCR, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Customers can order pickups and deliveries and track [...]read moreUber testing prepaid-item pickup from local stores in India