Zoox taps ex-UberPool exec’s startup for routing software help, also Notion now works without an internet connection

When James Cox, the former leader of Uber’s ride-share product, UberPool, left that company in 2019, the Silicon Valley giant had abandoned its autonomous vehicle development and sold off the division entirely. While UberPool had struggled to take hold, Cox felt a massive opportunity had been missed: taking the core of UberPool’s tech and applying it to robotaxis.

, one of the most annoying issues with using Notion was that you couldn’t get much done offline because of its cloud-first architecture. As TechCrunch’s Ivan Mehta writes, the company has finally solved that problem, adding support for an offline mode to its apps.
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