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Waymo Denies Plan to Use Robotaxis’ Interior Cameras to Personalize Ads
Waymo Denies Plan to Use Robotaxis’ Interior Cameras to Personalize Ads
April 07, 2025  |  Transportation

Autonomous vehicle firm Waymo denied a media report that it plans to use data from its robotaxis’ interior cameras to identify individuals or personalize ads....

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Travelers’ Reliance on AI Prompts Google to Enhance Search, Maps and Tools
Travelers’ Reliance on AI Prompts Google to Enhance Search, Maps and Tools
April 02, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Starting this week, Google is rolling out a slew of new travel features across its product line to keep users from defaulting to artificial intelligence...

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Uber and OpenTable to Roll Out Connected Dining Offerings
Uber and OpenTable to Roll Out Connected Dining Offerings
April 01, 2025  |  Partnerships

Uber and OpenTable have partnered to create a connected dining experience that will include access to dining reservations, transportation and membership benefits. The offerings, which will be rolled...

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WEX and Engine Team to Help Truckers Cover Travel
WEX and Engine Team to Help Truckers Cover Travel
March 26, 2025  |  Travel Payments

Business and group travel platform Engine has joined forces with commerce platform WEX. The partnership is designed to offer WEX’s Over The Road Fuel Cards as a payment...

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United Airlines Raising Fees for Travel Perks
United Airlines Raising Fees for Travel Perks
March 24, 2025  |  Loyalty & Rewards

United Airlines announced changes Monday (March 24) to its lounge memberships and rewards credit card offerings. According to a Monday news release from the company,...

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A New Kind of Uber: Taking a Spin in Waymo’s Self-Driving Car
A New Kind of Uber: Taking a Spin in Waymo’s Self-Driving Car
March 22, 2025  |  Transportation

The white Jaguar with a bulky top headed toward me on the busy streets of Austin, Texas. About a block away, it stopped at a...

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Zoox CTO: Why Self-Driving Cars Are So Hard to Get Right
Zoox CTO: Why Self-Driving Cars Are So Hard to Get Right
March 21, 2025  |  Technology

The road to autonomous vehicles is long and arduous, and it has already taken one high-profile victim: GM’s Cruise. Elon Musk has been promising autonomy...

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Lyft May Add Autonomous Vehicles to Ridesharing Platform This Summer
Lyft May Add Autonomous Vehicles to Ridesharing Platform This Summer
March 20, 2025  |  Ridesharing

Lyft plans to start adding autonomous vehicles (AVs) to its ridesharing platform as soon as this summer. “We recently signed agreements with partners like May...

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Amazon Autos to Help Dealers Sell Used Cars
Amazon Autos to Help Dealers Sell Used Cars
March 19, 2025  |  Retail

Amazon plans to start helping dealers sell used cars as well as new ones, according to Fan Jin, director and general manager of Amazon Autos. Speaking on the...

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