It’ll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research.

"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place," one witness said.

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Estimating expected time of arrival (ETA) is crucial to what we do at Lyft. Estimates go directly to riders and drivers using our apps, as…

When Amazon workers leave to start or join other companies, they often adopt and adapt Amazon's principles in their new ventures, spreading the Bezos way.

Michel Cohen made millions selling art and lost it all trading stocks. Desperate and in debt, he stole more than $50 million by double-selling famous paintings. Then he disappeared. In her new documentary, Vanessa Engle recounts Michel’s story and her 17…

This month I moved from Google Cloud’s hosted Kubernetes (Google Kubernetes Engine or GKE) to Netlify. My migration onto GKE was one of my big projects last year and this move to Netlify was a big move this year so I wanted to take the time to sit down and…

If you went to Hackaday Supercon 2019, you might have seen someone wandering around with a badge that was way too heavy looking. That was me! And that badge was a Gameslab, my FPGA-powered handheld game console. As the blog posts from years ago prove, I’ve…

Why I’m putting Bra Theory on an indefinite hiatus In December 2019, I announced that Bra Theory will be halting product development, indefinitely. Many challenges in the bra world remain...

triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side

The late Silas Warner is barely remembered in gaming, but he did something extraordinary

A band of large drones appears to be flying nighttime search patterns over northeast Colorado and local authorities say they don’t know who’s behind the mysterious aircraft.

New version of widely derided movie starring Idris Elba and Judi Dench to get CGI update

Tim Sweeney, whose Epic Games created Fortnite, has become one of North Carolina’s most prolific conservationists when it comes to preserving forest land.