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Google Sues Uber for Allegedly Stealing Self-Driving Car Secrets
In a US federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Thursday, Google’s self-driving car business Waymo is accusing Uber of using intellectual property stolen by one of their former project leaders. According to the filing, Anthony Levandowski, who runs the autonomous car division at Uber, downloaded over 14,000 files from…
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Uber Becoming a Robotics Company According to CEO
Travis Kalanick, CEO and co-founder of Uber spoke at the World Government Summit in Dubai and declared that the popular ride-sharing company is “at the beginning of becoming a robotics company” as it embraces the impending take over of autonomous vehicles. The company has been investing heavily in autonomous vehicles…
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Man Files €45M Lawsuit Against Uber for Tipping Wife of Extramarital Affair
Uber is not exactly the most popular ride-hailing app these days, especially after the whole #DeleteUber debacle, but it looks like one particular person in France dislikes the company even more to the point of filing a lawsuit against them to the tune of €45 million. The plaintiff wishes to keep…
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NASA Engineer Hired to Direct Uber Elevate VTOL Project
We reported four months ago of Uber’s plans to develop Uber Elevate, a fleet of Vertical Take-Off and Landing or VTOL taxis sometime in the future, but it looks like that future is going to arrive earlier than expected. Uber has just hired NASA engineer Mark Moore as Director of…
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Uber and Mercedes Join Forces for Self-Driving Cars
Uber has already shaken up the world of driving with their ride sharing service, and it looks like they just took their next big step to shake it up even further! Uber has just penned a deal with Daimler, which will see Mercedes self-driving cars joining the Uber fleet in…
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Lyft Surges to Top 10 App List after #DeleteUber Campaign
The #DeleteUber campaign raging on social media over the weekend was enough to push Lyft up on the iTunes App store in between Instagram and YouTube while pushing Uber out of the top 10 list for the first time ever. After a Twitter gaffee which many took as Uber taking…
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Uber Teams Up with Star Wars for Rogue One Campaign
To promote the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story film, Disney has teamed up with Uber for a campaign replacing the icons on the popular ride sharing app with Star Wars-themed ones starting Sunday night. The icon-swap itself will be opt-in only so that not all users are confused…
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Uber Now Tracks Users Up to 5 Minutes After Ride Ends
Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center have raised concern regarding the latest update for the Uber ride sharing app which tracks user location even when the App is not being used. Uber calls this feature “Trip Related Location Data” and it is collected from the time the…
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Uber Self-Driving Truck Completes First Delivery – 50,000 Beers
Last Thursday (20th October), a self-driving 18-wheel truck made a delivery for the first time. The Volvo truck – which transported 50,000 cans of Budweiser over 100 miles across the US – is owned by Otto, a self-driving truck company based in San Francisco, recently purchased by taxi company Uber.…
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Uber Drones Showing Billboards to Commuters Stuck in Traffic
You’re sitting in your car, fed up with the futility of your daily commute and being just one part in the endless puzzle that is rush hour traffic. All of a sudden, an alien invasion of attack drones swoop down on your car! OK, perhaps not, but I can’t imagine…
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Uber Developing Automated VTOL Flying Taxis
Private transportation outfit Uber may already be working on ditching its drivers in favour of self-driving cars, but the company is now looking even further into the future, according to Jeff Holden, Head of Products at Uber. In an interview with Recode, Holden revealed that Uber is looking into creating…
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Copyright Troll Receives Jail Time Following Attack on Uber Driver
Robert Croucher is mostly known for being the owner of the copyright troll company Hatton & Berkeley which launched a large offensive against alleged illegal file downloaders in the UK last fall, but now he’ll also be known as a jailbird after assaulting an Uber driver during a night out in…
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Self-Driving Ubers Spotted in San Francisco
Despite a large number of companies currently rushing to develop their autonomous car capabilities, very few of these firms are yet to bring their vehicles to the streets. Despite the strict regulations on self-driving vehicles in California, Uber may have managed to beat many firms to the punch with what…
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Uber Teams Up With Volvo to Give Driver Free Rides
Driverless cars are all the hit. The ability to get into your car and tell it that you want to go to work, only to then find it drive away without you ever pressing a pedal. Now it looks like the Volvo is going to help the ride-sharing app Uber achieve…
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Uber Shared Data on 13 Million Users With US Government
The Uber mobile application which allows smart phone users to travel to another location by an accredited driver has revolutionized transport and caused a great deal of anger from taxi drivers. These people feel they can’t earn a living due to the huge taxi license expense and lower fees consumers…
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