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And yesterday, it set its sights (or site, to be specific) much higher than ride-hailing and food delivery to something akin to life concierge, launching a new range of service offerings under the brand. Let’s take a look at their offerings and share some thoughts on the merits of each: Uber Travel Uber is here to solve the pain of app switching courtesy of its very own platform. Starting this summer in the UK, you’ll be able to book trains, coaches, and car rentals using the app....

In a weekend press release — just before the French video game giant’s first virtual conference — Ubisoft chief creative officer Serge Hascoët formally resigned in the wake of an internal investigation. He later confirmed he’d leave the company altogether. Hascoët is credited as the lead “creative force” behind much of Ubisoft’s catalogue over the past decade, including Assassin’s Creed and The Division. Hascoët started at the company way back in 2000....

Last week, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) included the word ‘Satoshi.’ To celebrate this significant milestone, we thought it would be a great time to explain what a Satoshi is, how it works, and why it’s important for Bitcoin. What is the Satoshi Put simply, a Satoshi is the tiniest unit of Bitcoin in existence. As you’ve probably already guessed, it’s named after Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator — or creators — of Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology....

Dublin is trialling mini urban distribution centers and powered walkers and quad cycles to enable city centre deliveries that don’t contribute to local emissions or congestion. The pilot is funded by Dublin City Council, Enterprise Ireland and Belfast City Council and the system was developed as part of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) challenge, which sought new approaches to optimizing deliveries. Through this, design and manufacturing consultancy Fernhay developed the containers, bikes and walkers for global logistics carrier UPS to trial....

The US aviation regulator has permitted American Robotics to fly its Scout quadcopter beyond the line-of-sight of human operators. In approval documents recently posted on the FAA website, the agency said the exemption only applies to rural areas, daylight visibility, and altitudes below 400 feet. The drones must also have a maximum takeoff weight of 20 pounds and operate solely for the purposes of research and development, crew training, and market surveys....

PitchBook’s latest ‘European VC Valuation’ report says that pre-money valuations across the financing stages remained resilient amid the emergence of the pandemic but notes that most venture capital deals were closed prior to the disruption. [Read: The do’s and don’ts of launching a side hustle to supplement your income] Additionally, the report says that angel, seed, and early-stage European rounds could decrease as managers shift their focus inwards towards existing portfolio companies....

Most of the advice follows the same general themes: Review work samples Put them through a test project And evaluate their English skills (if the developer is overseas) These screening tips are all useful, but something important is missing: the “Falafel Test.” Let me explain. Businesses can’t afford to be wrong when it comes to hiring developers. Sinking precious time and hard-earned money into finding a freelance developer — who turns out to be pompous, with poor email etiquette — is devastating....

I was a complete noob to the world of content marketing. But soon enough, what started out as a hobby turned into paying gigs, and those turned into regular and steady work. As I started collaborating more closely with clients and writing branded content for companies, I was fully immersed as a content creator – which inevitably led me to face the ethical debates of the industry. I soon learned that in order to maintain my integrity while navigating the realms of content marketing successfully, I’ll have to ask questions, turn down offers, and define my stance on some very specific issues....

More recently, however, advanced technologies in web development have made the task a bit more difficult. In this article, we’ll explore how we might go about scraping data in the case that new technology and other factors prevent standard scraping. Traditional data scraping As most websites produce pages meant for human readability rather than automated reading, web scraping mainly consisted of programmatically digesting a web page’s mark-up data (think right-click, View Source), then detecting static patterns in that data that would allow the program to “read” various pieces of information and save it to a file or a database....

The fine, of which a share will directly go to the UK by virtue of the EU withdrawal agreement, is also a vindication of the long fight against big tech by competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager. She suffered a crushing defeat in July 2020 when the same court overturned a €13 billion fine imposed on Apple for an elaborate – but legal – tax avoidance scheme. But this time, the tide has turned and the message is clear: the regulators will not allow Google and its fellow tech giants to steer consumers towards their own products....

Remember when phones had a single camera on them? Normally on the device’s rear? Now, concentrate, and try to conjure a mental picture of them… … THEN THROW THAT IMAGE IN THE TRASH, WE’RE IN MULTI-CAMERA WORLD NOW, BUSTER. Yes, we now live on a planet where your everyday mobile phone probably has a variety of lenses on the back — and we’re here to help you understand what they all do....

— Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) April 28, 2020 WhatsApp announced today that it’s expanding its group calling limit from four people to eight people. This makes it easier for you to stay in touch with your friends and family during the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement was part of a bunch of new product updates announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. [Read: Elon Musk bought $45M in Tesla stock since ‘that weed joke’ — now it’s worth double] Earlier this week, the company started to roll out this feature to users of the app’s beta versions on iOS and Android....

So, if you were part of a pesky group of relatives that you couldn’t really leave, you had to perform the muting ritual once in a year. Now, the chat has rolled out an option to mute a conversation FOREVER. That’s right. [Read: What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US presidential election] The company has replaced the 1-year muting option with Always, and that’s a smart thing to do....

Researcher Shitesh Sachan noticed that even after purging messages, media files sent to iPhone users in group chats (who have enabled the ‘Save to Camera Roll’ setting) will remain on the device. To clarify, although deleted messages containing media files won’t be visible in WhatsApp, the files will still be available to iPhone users with ‘Save to Camera Roll’ enabled. By contrast, the feature works differently on WhatsApp for Android....

The new service, dubbed Premium Duo, will offer each half their own Premium account, in addition to a shared playlist tailored to the taste of both. Premium Duo will cost $12.99, so couples are still getting a deal considering a standard individual sub will run you $9.99. That said, it’s less of a bargain than Premium Family, which lets you share a subscription with up to six people for just $15....

When it comes to self-driving vehicles, we’ve been promised a lot in recent years. They are supposed to rescue us from the monotony of tedious driving. They are supposed to make our roads safer. They are supposed to be here already, but they’re not. In the past year, the challenging reality of getting fully autonomous vehicles on the road has set in and tech is having to take a more considered approach....

It must be wonderful to be a sideline critic. You can easily find the defects in other people’s work or products, point them out in an annoying way, and instantly feel unique and smart. As long as you don’t have to go through the messy process of delivering on your feedback and actually fixing things, you can freely enjoy the moment and bask in your smugness. Sadly though, sideline critics don’t get a lot of credit for their work as nobody likes to be confronted by a back-seat driver....

Classic work published in 1970 by the Polish-born psychologist Henri Tajfel showed how rapidly and arbitrarily teenage schoolboys form a sense of loyalty to their own group, and a bias against the out-group, even when group membership was based on nothing more than a preference for one abstract artist or another. More recently, research shows that even preschoolers have a preference for playing with children of their own ethnicity or those who speak the same language....

Numerous factors have led to this phenomenon, threatening the current vendor-client relationship. As it stands now, many agencies are scrambling to get ahead of the curve, while others feel there’s nothing they can do to avoid its inevitability. But when looked at from a different lens, you can see quite clearly that in-housing, in fact, isn’t. Allow me to explain. One of the primary factors that lead the initial push for in-housing was a real, tangible need for data transparency....

We were lucky enough to already have a remote infrastructure in place, and while our core team operated out of our Chicago headquarters, I made sure to get in touch with our dispersed colleagues as well. Our remote workers in Dallas wanted to know how Chicago’s situation compared to theirs; our employees in Dubai and India wondered how our situation compared to theirs, and how high caseloads would rise in the future....