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Earlier this month, Lyft crossed a major milestone when it completed its 1 billionth trip. It took the company six years to reach that goal, which is around the same amount of time it took Uber to reach a billion rides. But unlike Uber, Lyft only operates in cities in the US and Canada, so each of its 1 billion trips has the distinction of being homegrown.

Even though Lyft sees its future as a more multimodal, sustainable transportation company that supports biking, scooters, transit equity, and safer streets, cars are still its core business — specifically gas-burning cars. As such, the ride-hail company is celebrating the milestone by offering a free tank of gas to 3,500 drivers selected randomly from across the country.

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This summer, Ford decided to spin out its budding self-driving car program into its own business. During a recent interview on The Vergecast, Ford AV CEO Sherif Marakby shared his vision for the automaker’s autonomous push, including a few new details about the status of the company’s first dedicated self-driving car, which is due out in 2021.

That car is supposed to be the linchpin of a fully autonomous shuttle and cargo service that will launch the same year, and it’s already past the design and clay modeling phase, Marakby said. And it’s most likely going to resemble something more like an SUV than the Fusion sedans Ford is currently using to test its self-driving technology in cities like Miami and Pittsburgh.

“When you’re talking…

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A lot of great shows came up empty-handed last night; others weren’t nominated at all. Here’s an idea: Let’s celebrate TV we *talk* about.

HQ Trivia saw huge viral success by successfully turning Jeopardy! into a live smartphone game show. Now, nearly a year later, HQ is hoping it can make lightning strike twice with a new show format: HQ Words, which looks to iterate on popular game show Wheel of Fortune, via Digiday.

Like Wheel of Fortune, HQ Words will present players with a blank grid of letters and a clue with a selection of letters that players can guess. Guess a letter in the puzzle correctly, and you’ll get points for each time it appears in the answer; guess wrong, and you’ll get a strike. (Three strikes, and you’re out.) At the end, the player with the most points will win (or split) the jackpot.

According to the Digiday report, HQ has actually made…

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E-commerce platform Shopify now offers support for AR Quick Look, an iOS 12 feature that builds augmented reality support directly into the Safari browser.

TechCrunch notes that the move means that the roughly 600,000 online stores that run on Shopify’s platform can now build in the ability for customers to view products in augmented reality without having to download any additional apps.

A trailer released by Shopify shows off this functionality to view PureCycles’ bicycles before purchase to get an idea of the size and shape of the product before it arrives.

The usefulness of the functionality is likely to vary between different retailers. PureCycles reports that 50 to 60 percent of visitors to its site are on mobile, while 70…

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Charge filed with the EEOC says employers can discriminate by targeting ads at men and excluding women.

From kilowatt-hours to horsepower to acceleration times, see how the E-tron SUV compares to similar offerings from Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, and others.

Most cities felt powerless to extract concessions from Uber and Lyft. Now that scooters are here, they’ve learned their lesson—and toughened up.

Costing $150 and launching on Indiegogo, the Heated Razor isn’t anything like what you’re used to.

Guts, legs of unobtanium, a friend with a drag racer, and a keen sense of aerodynamics are all key to Denise Mueller-Korenek’s mission: setting the bike land speed record.