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Uber now lets family member track each other's rides

Due to popular demand, Uber launched a new feature called Family Profiles back in March, which are joint profiles that allow multiple users to bill their rides to the same payment card. With...

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Spotify plans to release a dozen original video programs

Spotify was the undisputed king of music-streaming before Apple entered the market, but now that Apple Music is here... Spotify is still undisputed leader. In fact, a Spotify vice president by...

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YouTube now has six-second advertisements that you can't skip

YouTube decided to remind us that life is full of compromises with a new blog post this morning, in which it announced that it's introducing a new advertisement format that shortens...

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BMW has launched its own car-sharing service

The rise of ride-sharing services and self-driving cars has allowed technology companies to muscle their way into the automotive industry, and many automakers aren't happy about these foreign companies encroaching on...

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A next-generation Kindle will be unveiled next week

E-readers have never been especially popular, and what little popularity there was has mostly faded away thanks to the rise of tablets, but Amazon still isn't quite ready to abandon the...

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2020 is shaping up to be a massive year for Mars exploration

Mars has become the main focus of every major space agency in the world, and unlike the Space Race of the 20th-century, Russia and the United States aren't the only...

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Smaller brands may as well say goodbye to Instagram

Instagram announced on Tuesday that it wants to start using algorithms to determine which posts are most interesting and relevant to users, which it described as being designed to improve...

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Uber's food delivery service is starting to expand

Hearing that Uber is encroaching on your territory is enough to make most companies a little nervous, and I don't think GrubHub is an exception. The Chicago-based startup generated more than $1...

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Pandora wants to help artists connect with their fans

When every music-streaming service offers roughly the same content for roughly the same price, it can be hard for one service to differentiate itself from the competition. One of the...

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Microsoft considered making an $8 billion acquisition bid for Slack

With more than 2.3 million daily active users, it's not that hard to see why so many companies are interested in acquiring Slack, a popular service that helps co-workers interact and...

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