Category: What’s On

Uber had announced in January that it was bringing its food delivery service to India, its fastest-growing market in the world. And finally, it's here. UberEATS has rolled out in Mumbai and will soon be taken to five other Indian cities.India becomes UberEATS' fourth Asian market, after it launched in Singapore last May, followed by Tokyo (Japan) and Bangkok (Thailand). Interestingly, Uber's local rival Ola had started a similar service, Ola Cafe, in 2015 and shut it down a year later after

Finally, the perfect gift for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day gift has arrived. Beyoncé is releasing Lemonade on yellow vinyl as part of a $300 box set. The collector's edition box set, titled How To Make Lemonade, will include a 600-page book with photos from the making of the album, a foreword from Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, and poetry by Warsan Shire.The set will be delivered sometime this summer, when you need a refreshing glass of

Janet Jackson performs last March in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Image: Francois Nel/Getty ImagesBy Josh Dickey2017-05-02 01:36:53 UTCJanet's back, and there's nothing nasty about it. Janet Jackson's official website carried a curious count-down clock that had fans wondering what news its expiration would bring Monday morning — especially since her long-awaited "Unbreakable" tour was postponed last year. But by afternoon, the clock had disappeared — then re-set to four-plus hours

Between Thumbtack,  Yelp Angie’s List, and Amazon, it wouldn’t appear that the world needs a new platform that matches customers with service professionals. That’s not the way that Julio Vasconcellos sees it, clearly. Vasconcellos has spent the last year-plus working on a services platform called Prefer that relies exclusively on trusted referrals, replacing the wisdom of crowds with the wisdom of one’s friends when it comes to hiring a babysitter or accountant or housekeeper. In fact, if Prefer has its way, it will eventually become users’ go-to source for

SpaceX is taking its second shot at NROL-76, a Falcon 9 mission launching from LC-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Station. The launch was originally scheduled for Sunday, April 30, but that attempt was scrubbed due to a sensor issue. The window for the re-try today opens at 7 AM EDT (4 AM PDT) and continues for two hours after that. As of earlier this morning, SpaceX was advising a 7:15 AM liftoff time, but was monitoring winds in the upper level

President Donald Trump was a distracting entertainment from the moment he launched his campaign in June of 2015 — until he wasn't. His opening speech, in which he called Mexican immigrants "rapists" and told the world he would be the best jobs president "God ever created," was looked at as the ravings of a man whose outsized ego was too big to be anything but hilarious. News outlets such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC carried his run-on sentences and gesticulations seemingly

Your newest prom bandImage: Larry Marano/REX/ShutterstockBy Marcus Gilmer2017-04-30 19:32:20 UTCThe kids at Huntley High School got a pretty rousing surprise when internet darlings The Chainsmokers crashed their prom, causing the kind of mass teen hysteria not seen since Marty McFly lit up the guitar at the Hill Valley High "Enchanted Under the Sea" dance in 1955.According to the Daily Herald, the surprise appearance was in the works for several weeks before the duo dropped in.The school, located in the

Russia. Flags.Image: Yuri Kochetkov/Epa/REX/ShutterstockBy Colin Daileda2017-04-30 02:42:34 UTCTrolling is mostly dumb, but sometimes it's an art. President Donald Trump held a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday and, as he was speaking, someone tossed a bunch of tiny Russian flags, confetti-style, in front of the cameras streaming his speech to news networks.As far as protests go, it certainly earns points for creativity.The Trump campaign and administration officials have had a lot of unexplained contact with Russian officials, much of which

In addition to its many other failures, it looks like Fyre Fest is also an unintentional copycat. According to some Friday tweets from Seth Rogen and The Lonely Island, the two are combining comedic forces for a film about a "music festival that goes horribly wrong." Interesting! That sounds familiar.This seems like a good time to mention the movie we are making with @thelonelyisland about a music festival that goes HORRIBLY WRONG. — Seth Rogen (@Sethrogen) April 28, 2017We don't yet have

A theory building momentum among Game of Thrones fans is that Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) may in fact kill his twin sister and lover, Cersei (Lena Headey). Coster-Waldau weighed in on the theory earlier this week while doing press for his upcoming Netflix film Small Crimes, and while he can’t confirm or deny it, he does seem to have thought it out quite a bit. “I mean I don’t think he — I’m just saying it’s a valid theory,” Coster-Waldau told Mashable.

Elon Musk shows off a video about his tunnel boring company, The Boring Company, a self-driving Apple test vehicle is spotted in the wild and Cloudera and Carvana each price their IPO at $15; one does well, the other not so much. All this on Crunch Report. Read MoreVia ASDA Alltop

Violence erupted in Macedonia’s parliament as tensions between ethnic Albanian minorities and nationalists boiled over, prompting sharp rebukes from Western governments. Protesters supportive of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party, as well as individuals clad in identity-concealing hoods, stormed parliament on Thursday night local time, violently accosting at least lawmakers and journalists. Police say the violence left 102 inside and outside parliament injured. Parliament had just managed to break the “filibuster” of the minority VMRO-DPMNE. The party lost its governing majority in December’s elections,

An early player in drone-tech, 3D Robotics Inc., announced that it has raised $53 million in a Series D round of funding on Thursday, including new equity funding and conversion of debt equity. Atlantic Bridge led the round joined by Autodesk Forge Fund, True Ventures, Foundry Group, Mayfield and other undisclosed investors, according to the company statement. The company didn’t break out how much new capital it saw coming in the door in this round. We reached out for more information. But

The FCC has made its initial proposal as to how it intends to do away with net neutrality — and despite what leadership there has said, that’s definitely how the document reads. You are free to make your thoughts known on the notice of proposed rulemaking, as it’s called, and here’s how to do it. Because millions of commenters nearly crashed the entire system when net neutrality was being established, the FCC has prudently improved the process ahead of the “significant

There's rich material to be mined from the premise of The Circle, a new thriller set in the offices of a tech giant that's like Google, Facebook, and Apple all rolled into one. Unfortunately, the film has neither the patience nor the insight to dig very deeply at all. Instead, it blows the whole concept to rubble and pats itself on the back for having the insight to drop such truth bombs.Directed by James Ponsoldt and based on a novel by

Google’s internal startup incubator, Area 120, unveiled last year, has to date led to the creation of a number of projects, including a personal stylist app Tailor, a voice messenger Supersonic, and most recently, an app for watching YouTube videos together called Uptime. We’ve now spotted another app in development over there called Appointments, a salon booking tool. Appointments has not yet been publicly released to the app stores or web, but its project page is currently live at salon.area120.com.The app appears to

A cancer survivor shared her moving story of how she came to embrace her prosthetic leg on reality dating show First Dates. Sarah, 21, was on a date with Phil, who lost his mum to breast cancer when he was 17, when she talked about her experience of dating after having her leg amputated. "When I first went dating, I had my leg covered up so that the guys I went on dates with couldn't see that I had my leg

Ontario capital Toronto. The province is hosting the first major universal basic income test in North America in 30 years.Image: carlo allegri/getty imagesBy Patrick Kulp2017-04-26 01:15:48 UTCThousands of randomly chosen Canadians may soon receive free checks in the mail. The province of Ontario just announced that a major trial run of a universal basic income program could begin as early as this summer.Universal basic income is a largely untested policy concept in which every citizen would get a regular government

Uber is making its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) plans more concrete, via new partnerships announced today during its Elevate conference focused on the VTOL industry. The partnerships are with established aeronautics and emerging VTOL players, including Aurora Flight Sciences, Embraer, Bell Helicopter, Pistrel Aircraft, Mooney and ChargePoint, and will focus on two markets initially, including Dallas in the U.S. and Dubai abroad. The partners will provide various elements of the technology requirements for Uber to run its so-called Elevate Network,

Seagulls are commonly known for their thievery of beach and boardwalk snacks. Occasionally, though, they'll get their beaks on other miscellaneous items. On Friday, a seagull in Newton Abbot, England, was photographed with something quite surprising in its beak.Someone shared the following pictures on the Spotted Newton Abbot Facebook page with a caption that said: "Hi Spotted Newton Abbot, can you please post this picture below. Someone's false teeth were found on a bench on Torquay Harbour at lunchtime. Unfortunately anyone

Earlier this month, a Tor node operator in Russia was arrested in a potential misunderstanding about the nature of the decentralized network. Dmitry Bogatov, a lecturer at the Moscow Finance and Law University, was taken into custody on April 6 and charged with organizing mass unrest, which was later appended with the more serious charge of incitement to terrorist activity. He remains in custody at this time. Bogatov is accused of writing posts at sysadmins.ru in late March that encouraged protesters to

According to newly unsealed documents, a federal court in California ruled that it is unlawful for Adobe to remain under an indefinite gag order regarding a search warrant for one of its users. In the ruling, the Los Angeles court concluded that the government had not made a sufficient argument to support the ongoing nature of a gag order it issued to Adobe 2016. Effectively, Adobe successfully argued that these gag orders should come with an expiration date, after which the

Apple is finally adding transit options to its Maps app for the city of Paris. Starting today, you can use Apple Maps to calculate itineraries using public transportation. You’ll find subway, RER and bus lines, and even Transilien lines. Just like in Google Maps, you can look around the map with a new subway layer or you can calculate an itinerary from A to B. If you tap on a station, you can see all the lines leaving this station as

Frank Ocean performs during the 2014 Bonnaroo Festival.Image: Josh Brasted/WireImage via getty imagesBy Nicole Gallucci2017-04-23 20:01:26 UTCFrank Ocean is back, baby, and he's not showing signs of slowing down. Since dropping his highly anticipated album Blonde back in 2016 to end a four-year hiatus, Ocean has been unstoppable. On Saturday night the R&B star released yet another new track called "Lens."On an episode of his blonded RADIO show, "Lens" was played for the first time, followed by another version of

Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesBy Chloe Bryan, Tricia Gilbride, and Laura Vitto2017-04-23 13:09:48 UTCAll dogs are good, but some dogs are the best. Using a unique and complex algorithm that we cannot disclose (just kidding, we picked 50 dogs from the American Kennel Club website, gave each a score out of 10, then argued with each other in the case of a tie), we have ranked 50 good dog breeds from fiftieth-best to first-best. You may disagree with these rankings, and that's

It's been a busy week: Samsung and Google partnered on special version of Google Play Music and White House staffers' favorite secure messaging app might not be that secure. Oh, and Facebook wants you to talk and listen your skin. Luckily, we've kept up for you. Each week, we round up the latest app news, along with a few of our favorite new and updated products, to keep you in the loop with everything coming to your smartphone.Here's what caught our

Apple has developed a testing procedure for drivers who would act as failsafe controls during autonomous vehicle testing, documents discovered by Business Insider via a public records request show. The documents detail the testing procedure that Apple has created in order to comply with the California Department of Motor Vehicle’s rules regarding autonomous testing on state roads. Business Insider’s report on the documents detail the development platform being used by Apple in its testing, which include sensor hardware and software for monitoring surroundings, and

The list of celebrities coming out as cannabis users is growing like a weed. Anne Hathaway appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Thursday, which just so happened to be the unofficial stoner holiday 420. While on the show, Hathaway played a game called "Plead The Fifth." The game is simple, Cohen asks her three questions, she has to answer two of them, and one she can plead the fifth. In the very first question, Cohen brings up a

The news never stops, which begs the question: Do newscasters ever get a moment of peace to rest? Apparently not. KSCH12 News reporter and journalist Deedee Sun was tired while reporting out in the field, and thought the weather report was a safe time to express her exhaustion. Unfortunately, just as Sun was letting out a giant yawn, the weather feed cut to her, broadcasting this sleepy moment for everyone to see. Sun, a great sport, posted a video of the mistake on

Usually the news is a pretty depressing business. Every now and then there'll be something mildly positive squeezed in between articles about death and political turmoil, but for the most part it's a near-constant stream of misery. The local news is different, though.Hidden in the corners of small British news sites and in the back pages of local papers are stories that are, quite simply, glorious. Like this one:That image is one of the many excellent examples of local British news stories shared

French telecom company Orange is launching a bank this Summer in France. Orange CEO Stéphane Richard listed some of the features behind Orange Bank this morning at a press conference. And let’s just say that it doesn’t sound as groundbreaking as the company thinks. Just like N26, Revolut and others, you’ll be able to control your payment card directly from your phone. Transactions will show up instantly in the app and you’ll be able to block and unblock the card

Jeff Bezo's Amazon is coming, take cover Australia!Image: DAVID RYDER/GETTY IMAGESBy Jerico Mandybur2017-04-20 02:36:33 UTCThe moment Australian retailers have dreaded is here. Amazon is expanding Down Under, opening warehouses that’ll enable cheap, fast local shipping, and letting small businesses sell goods through the site—a development an Amazon employee reportedly said would "destroy the retail environment in Australia." Shopping on Amazon.com is already available to Australians, but with international shipping and long delivery times, it isn't a pleasant experience.A spokesperson

Planned Parenthood has been threatened repeatedly with defunding in several states since Trump became our 45th president. But has also, as a consequence, received a serious spike in donations (40 times its normal rate, according to the Guardian). The organization’s leaders are now looking to 500 startups’ seed program to help them capitalize on the recent surge and harness technology to help further the momentum. 500 will donate $100,000 to the growing trove Planned Parenthood has already received since Trump took office

If you want to get some top-level acting tips, you might as well go straight to the original source.On Tuesday, actor M. Browne sent a tweet to Game of Thrones star Lena Headey. He was set to play Cersei Lannister in his next class, apparently, and he was looking for some advice.Luckily, being the all-round nice person that she is (and actually nothing at all like Cersei IRL), Headey responded.You have to have an exterior which hides a dark powerful