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The empty driver's seat is shown in a driverless Chevy Bolt car named Peaches carrying Associated Press reporter Michael Liedtke during a ride in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept.13, 2022. The experience provided a snapshot of the artificial intelligence technology that is advancing toward a goal of improving the lives of humans while still malfunctioning in potentially alarming ways. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

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No one is driving this taxi. What possibly could go wrong?
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Wed,04/26/23-2:04AM , 685 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — I won't forget the first time I took a ride in a car without anyone sitting in the driver's seat.
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A Lyft ride-hailing vehicle is parked near Empower Field at Mile High in Denver on April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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Lyft gears up to make 'significant' layoffs under new CEO
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Fri,04/21/23-4:14PM , 473 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David Risher began steering the ride-hailing service with a eye of driving down costs to help bring its fares more in line with its biggest rival, Uber
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A Netflix DVD envelope is shown on Nov. 17, 2022, in San Francisco. Netflix is poised to shut down DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service, ending an era that began a quarter century ago when the concept of mailing discs through the mail was considered a revolutionary concept. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke, File)

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Netflix to bring down the curtain on its DVD-by-mail service
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Tue,04/18/23-2:31PM , 425 Reads
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix is poised to shut down the DVD-by-mail rental service that set the stage for its trailblazing video streaming service, ending an era that began a quarter century ago when delivering discs through the mail was considered a revolutionary concept.
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Sarah Snook, from left, Alan Ruck, Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Kieran Culkin attend the premiere of HBO's "Succession" season four at Jazz at Lincoln Center on March 20, 2023, in New York. Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled a streaming service Wednesday, April 12, combining HBO programming with a mix of unscripted TV series in a push to reap more subscribers from what so far has been a muddled media merger. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

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New streaming app to 'Max' programming from HBO, Discovery
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE - AP Technology Writer
Wed,04/12/23-2:47PM , 363 Reads
Warner Bros. Discovery unveiled a streaming service Wednesday combining iconic HBO programming such as “The Sopranos” with a mix of unscripted TV series in a push to reap more subscribers from what so far has been a muddled media merger.
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