Uber Eats Rebuilds Search Pipeline to Cut End-to-End Latency by 50%
Uber has rebuilt major parts of the Uber Eats search pipeline, reporting a 50% reduction in end-to-end latency. Changes include Above-the-Fold measu…
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Presentation: Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos
Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue u…
Uber Redesigns M3DB Sharding with Subclusters to Limit Failure Impact
Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The…
Now Light’s minimalist phone can easily call an Uber
More than a decade after its Kickstarter proposed a "cell phone designed to be used as little as possible," Light is adding a direct connection to U…
Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO
Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even soliciting investment from Uber i…
Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here’s every company it’s using to do it
Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the l…
How Uber Builds Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch Clusters
Uber explained how it keeps its OpenSearch deployments running during a zone outage. It does this by using OpenSearch's built-in shard allocation an…
Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint
Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of…
Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix
The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..
Shareholders sue Uber’s board over sexual assaults, other incidents
The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber's board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in thousands of lawsu…
Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027
This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.
TechCrunch Mobility: Inside GM’s $900M EV battery gamble
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Squishmallows, dentures, and an ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ bag: Uber has found thousands of items left in robotaxis
Even in a future of robot taxis, someone still has to return the things passengers leave behind.
Uber Improves Restaurant Recommendations Using Real-Time Signals and Listwise Ranking
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The syste…
Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch
The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.