Category: travel
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Meet Brazil’s Gaming Scene With Cloth Map
Drew met Brazil’s game players, developers, and the people who sell them.
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Uber Had the Opportunity to Monitor Everything on Your iPhone’s Screen
Daniel Jalkut: Yesterday, Gizmodo reported that Uber had been granted an entitlement for their iOS app that allowed them to capture an image of an iPhone’s screen at any time, even when the Uber app was not the active app on the phone. This is a big deal, because users don’t typically expect than an…
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A Legally Operated Taxi Service Wouldn’t Do This
Mike Isaac for the New York Times: Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was being resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been outright banned. The program, involving a tool called Greyball, uses data collected from the Uber app…
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Delete Uber Parts 1-3999
Nick Heer has this round-up of Uber in the news for the past 3 years. It includes this gem, from Buzzfeed: Early this November, one of the reporters of this story, Johana Bhuiyan, arrived to Uber’s New York headquarters in Long Island City for an interview with Josh Mohrer, the general manager of Uber New…
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Ubering Uber
Anil Dash has some tips for improving that app-based taxi service, Uber: There has been an enormous amount of attention and money poured into Uber, but is it possible that the company could be even better? Maybe so. Perhaps we could better serve people who live in cities today but aren’t yet using the service…