Comics George Barris, creator of the original Batmobile and many other iconic TV cars, has died Xeni Jardin
Gadgets Rad Power Bikes want to get the world out of their cars and they just may have figured out how to do it Boing Boing's Shop
tesla Tesla restored autopilot feature to used car, saying the whole thing was a "miscommunication" Mark Frauenfelder
Business "I just love to solve problems": how people who work at predatory lenders avoid thinking about the pain they inflict Cory Doctorow
security Ring: "We don't use facial recognition"; also Ring: "We have a head of facial recognition research" Cory Doctorow
amazon Prior to Amazon acquisition, Ring offered "swag" to customers who snitched on their neighbors Cory Doctorow
Business Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer Cory Doctorow
Business The empirical impact of Lyft and Uber on cities: congestion (especially downtown, especially during "surges"), overworked drivers Cory Doctorow
Business Grifty "information security" companies promised they could decrypt ransomware-locked computers, but they were just quietly paying the ransoms Cory Doctorow
