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03/17/2018 / By David Williams

Ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft cause increased traffic congestion in cities, research finds

It’s taken ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft less than a decade to become majorly disruptive market forces. But it looks like the market isn’t the only thing getting disrupted. Executives at either company have long maintained that their services help improve traffic in cities where they are available by virtue of the fact that […]

07/26/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Uber violates your privacy by permanently storing all the locations where you were picked up and dropped off

A glitch in the latest iteration of the Uber app permanently stores pick-up and drop-off locations on the user’s mobile phone, with updates being continually sent to the device even without inputting a password. This bug has been implicated in the dozens of divorce cases now being filed across Europe. According to litigation specialists and […]

09/08/2016 / By Mary Wilder

Liberals celebrating Uber and Lyft don’t realize they’re applauding free market-based solutions

If it weren’t so frustrating, it would actually be quite funny to deeply analyze the overt hypocrisy of virtually everything liberals do and believe in. They’re so intent on being the most intelligent, self-righteous members of society that they often behave like idiots while breaking their own moral code. This is rarely more visible than in the […]

10/16/2015 / By glitchnews

UBER’s ghost cars: The scam to appear abundant

Ever wonder why there always seems to be a ride nearby when you pull up your UBER app on your phone? Well, it turns out that the company has been knowingly populating fake cars in their app, to give the appearance of wide-scale availability. Alex Rosenblat, a New York-based data researcher, discovered this after doing […]

10/07/2015 / By Chris Draper

Former NSA employee hired by Uber for car hacking skills

Who knew you could make a lawful living as a professional computer hacker? That is at least the case for Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, two computer hackers who were recently hired by Uber for their morally ambiguous skills. The dynamic duo made their claim to fame in a feature article for WIRED magazine. Miller […]

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