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When you order a burger and fries on a food delivery app, do you know where your tip is going?

After a New York Times story over the weekend highlighted popular food delivery service DoorDash’s tipping policy, people were surprised to learn that DoorDash takes the tip paid in the app, but ensures a minimum payout to its delivery workers, known as Dashers. 

This prompted a look at how you tip delivery workers who bring food orders to your door from restaurants by car or bicycle. Here’s an example from the NYT reporter’s experience delivering in New York City on an electric bicycle.

On the DoorDash Reddit page, a customer posted Monday, “I’m a regular customer of [DoorDash] that has started doing cash tips because of this. I know I’m one person but I’m hoping that word keeps getting out and the situation keeps improving!” Read more…

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Logan Paul traded in his Maverick merch for a blazer for an interview with Fox Business, and it’s a wild ride. 

The 24-year-old YouTuber, infamous for recording and laughing at the body of a suicide victim in a vlog last year, graced Fox Business on Monday. During the interview, he oscillated between bragging about his clout and admitting that his career may be going downhill. 

Oh, and he had pink eye. 

“I have to stop you right there, you said … you used the word ‘controversial,” Paul shot back after host Liz Claman’s introduction. “Just so you know, I am an ex-controversial YouTuber.” 

When asked about Facebook and YouTube’s battle to become the internet’s main video platform, Paul started to make a point about how children consume video content, and ended with “You’re talking about a lot of stuff I don’t know much about … I’m kinda just out here.”  Read more…

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While the U.S. Air Force has sternly warned against anyone actually storming the Area 51 base come September, we know of one base that you absolutely can, and should storm. Except it’s not a base at all. And the only aliens are furry. And it’s in Texas.  

Okay, the base is, in fact, the Longview Animal Care and Adoption Center in Longview, Texas. The animal shelter is using the latest meme to help beam their adorable “aliens” out to forever homes. While another animal shelter in Oklahoma seemed to be the first to the viral moment, what’s better than more puppies wearing tin foil has? Puppies wearing tin foil hats and kittens that look like Boo from Monsters Inc.! Read more…

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Uber is testing a service that includes car rides, food delivery, and scooter and bike access for a monthly subscription fee. 

In San Francisco and Chicago, you can now get discounts and price protection on certain routes, free delivery on Uber Eats, and free rides on Jump e-bikes and e-scooters for $24.99 a month. 

It’s similar to the $24.99 Rider Pass already available in more than 20 cites, except that subscription doesn’t include the Uber Eats perk. It does, however, make Jump bike and scooters free for 30 minutes every day, if those devices are rentable where you live. 

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Paramount Miami Worldcenter, the most luxurious residential tower in the U.S., will soon have a first-of-its-kind flying cars skyport. Read more…

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Facebook’s FTC headache will soon be over and it looks like Mark Zuckerberg will emerge unscathed.

The Federal Trade Commission will formally announce its record-setting $5 billion fine against Facebook this week, according The Wall Street Journal.

The fine, the result of the FTC’s long-running investigation into the social network’s privacy practices following Cambridge Analytica, will be the largest the agency has ever brought against a tech company. Still, many critics have already said the fine does not go far enough to punish Facebook, which took in more than $15 billion last quarter alone. (Facebook’s stock actually rose following news of the fine earlier this month.)  Read more…

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Just because Prime Day week is officially over doesn’t mean the deals are.

In fact, there are still sales and discounts aplenty — and to keep up with our weekly routine, we sifted through the best ones exclusively on laptops and tablets to save you your hard-earned cash and gain you a brand-new personal device. 

This week is a pretty diverse bunch — 2-in-1 laptops, iPads, Chromebooks, MacBook Airs, and refurbished Amazon Fire Tablets are all here (plus others that are sure to fill up your best-in-tech wishlist). 

Take a look at all the best tablet and laptop deals that we found this week, and don’t forget to treat yourself.  Read more…

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Getting behind the wheel of a Tesla rented through Getaround’s car-sharing app is a breeze — perhaps too much so. 

On Sunday, a 22-year-old driver allegedly ran a red light in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, crashing a rented Tesla into another car before striking two pedestrians in a nearby crosswalk. The driver, who is reportedly not old enough to have rented the car via the app, killed one of the two pedestrians and left the other hospitalized in critical condition. 

So reports the San Francisco Chronicle, which notes the age of the driver of the rented car as 22. Getaround’s website, which offers Teslas starting at $25 an hour, states that renters of specialty cars must be at least 25 years old.  Read more…

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Love it or hate it, the “live-action” remake of Disney’s The Lion King has been an event.

With a record-breaking projected $531 million opening weekend and a cast so star-studded even the royal family stopped by to shake hands, Jon Favreau’s blockbuster tribute to the 1994 original film has garnered a lot of press. And a huge chunk of it has centered firmly around the almighty holy queen-goddess that is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter —  aka the voice of Nala, and star of the film’s chart-climbing soundtrack. 

In honor of The Lion King‘s roaring first weekend, we’ve meticulously gone back through the dozens of pre-release interviews to record cast members’ varying descriptions of meeting and working with Queen B, and rank them based on their sheer joy.  Read more…

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Star Trek fandom got its first look at the CBS All Access series Picard on Saturday thanks to a trailer that debuted at San Diego Comic-Con.

The two-minute look at Patrick Stewart’s next adventure as the former Enterprise captain is filled with reasons to get excited. In addition to Stewart stepping back into his beloved Jean-Luc Picard role, we get Romulan hijinx, a look at a Borg cube, even a surprise appearance from Star Trek: Voyager‘s Seven of Nine. But one reveal has rocked fandom more than any other: Data is on the show!

Those who remember 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis will remind you that Brent Spiner’s android perished in a heroic sacrifice. But before that happened he also implanted his neural net into his less complex “brother,” B-4. (Closure!) Read more…

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