Uber announced on Thursday a 10-year partnership with autonomous vehicle-maker Motional to offer driverless rides using the company’s electric robotaxis. Motional’s IONIQ 5-based robotaxis will be available to riders booking an UberX or Uber Comfort Electric.
The move is Uber’s first foray into robotaxis within its rideshare segment since the company sold off its own self-driving unit, Advanced Technologies Group, to Aurora in December 2020. The first trips wit
Everette Taylor, former chief marketing officer at Artsy, has taken over as Kickstarter’s CEO, the Brooklyn-based crowdfunding company tells Fast Company. His appointment caps a roughly six-month search for a new chief, after Aziz Hasan announced his departure.
He’ll be inheriting a company that’s had a difficult few years, wrestling with layoffs, increased competition, and blowback over its plans to move to blockchain technology. As he steps into his new
Affirm is testing a free rewards program in a bid to compete with credit card companies’ popular points systems.
Consumers in the Affirm Rewards beta will rack up points as they submit each repayment to the platform. Generally, shoppers will earn one point per $1 repaid, though that could change as Affirm continues to test the feature, the company tells Fast Company. (That’s a slightly different model than the typical credit card program, which incentivizes high spend
You can tell a lot about a person from the accounts they follow on Twitter, whether they’re using the platform to get intel on the latest hot startup, track trends in Web3, see rise-and-grind affirmations, or just read up on celebrity gossip. To get a glimpse into the mindset of a dozen leaders in business and tech on Twitter, we took a look at the kinds of accounts they follow and then mapped out some commonalities between them. Of course, in the same way a retweet isn’t an end
Our digital, two-dimensional lives leave little room for focus. Our eyes dart from screen to screen over the course of the day as notifications and messages draw our attention away from tasks, from relaxation, from the faces of our loved ones. Through all of its flatness, our digital lives are dominated by distraction—so much so that we can sometimes forget to breathe.
Finding lasting inner peace from within this flattened world can be a neurological nightmare. Mindfulness and m
Fashion designers are problem solvers, but often, their challenges involve creating comfortable jeans or supportive bras. The stakes are higher for Emily Madden: She’s tasked with preparing pregnant women for combat.
Madden is a clothing designer in the Army, whose department is tasked with creating clothes for all branches of the armed forces. Over the past four years, she’s supported the Marine Corps
Apple AirTags are an undoubtedly nifty product: quarter-size Bluetooth tracking devices that you can stick on an iPhone or set of keys. But like with so many tech innovations, there’s that pesky human element to deal with—namely, that AirTags can be used by a stalker to find where you liv
Interest rates are up, markets are down. Inflation continues to haunt the economy while the supply chain continues its wild, chaotic swing.
While we look for hope in employment stats and public market upswings, economists and pundits are arguing about just when NBER (the National Bureau of Economic Research, the government organization responsible for identifying a U.S. recession) is going to officially utter the “R” word. Companies and firms throughout the startup and ve
On September 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit.
The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a 1,340-pound (610-kilogram) probe into Didymos’ moon at a speed of approximately 14,000 mph (22,500 kph), NASA is going to complete the worldȁ
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