Many Uber drivers complain of low pay and high operating costs. However, some drivers are fighting back, and it could affect your next ride.

Drivers are purposely making trips longer in order to earn more money, reports the the Wall Street Journal.

In a practice called “longhauling,” drivers are taking routes that require more miles, and usually more time, in order to increase their cut of a fare. Fortunately for riders, the only thing they are losing is their time, since Uber’s upfront fares lock in flat prices for riders before they step foot in the vehicle.

Read more at The Points Guy.

People who live with inflammatory bowel disease deal with a lot of physical discomfort, and for some reason cannabis seems to give them relief. IBD, which includes conditions like ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, is an autoimmune disease, meaning that it involves the body’s immune system mistakenly attacking part of the body — in this case, the lining of the intestines. Patients who use marijuana have reported that it helps with pain and discomfort, and a few studies support this claim. But for a long time, doctors didn’t really understand what was going on.

Read more at Inverse.

If you're like most people, you want more muscle than you have right now, but you’re busy and you don’t have much free time to go to the gym and lift weights. If that's you, I have good news: Science has uncovered two highly effective training methods that can reduce the length of your workouts by up to 50 percent, while still delivering identical gains in size and strength. Here’s what they are and how to use them for the best results.

Read more at Tonic.

Increasing numbers of people are reportedly experiencing the same Instagram hack, which logs them out and changes their personal details.

Hundreds of people have reported being hacked since the beginning of August, according to Mashable, which highlighted similarities between the attacks.

Victims say they're being logged out, their handles and profile avatars are changed (often to a Disney or Pixar character) and their bios are deleted, reported Mashable. When they try to reset their password, they find that the account has been linked to a new .ru email address -- a Russian domain.

Read more at CNET.

Nichole Mustard isn’t your classic Silicon Valley tech founder. She didn’t teach herself to code as a kid. She didn’t attend Stanford. She didn’t intern at a tech giant.

After college, she was a trainee manager at Pizza Hut, living hand to mouth in a cheap Los Angeles apartment with a roommate, she told Business Insider.

Read more at Time.

Below is a list of upscale pet business ideas. The pet business has been on an upscale trajectory for the last couple of years. Animal lovers are now allotting more of their budget for their pets. So, opening up a pet-centric business could be lucrative for those who love animals and are willing to put in the work.

Read more at Inquisitr.

The trade tensions with the US have strained Canadian companies and their outlooks for the future. With Canada being left out at the NAFTA negotiating table, what could this mean for Canadian companies and investors?

Read more at Fox Business.

You may not remember 2014 as a particularly revolutionary year, but in the digital world, it was. At the annual Consumer Electronics Show that year, the smartwatch made its breakthrough, to the extent that there was a special Wrist Revolution section showcasing watches with the power and capacity of smartphones. A year later, Apple released the Apple Watch, which quickly became the market leader.

Since then so-called wearable technology for the wrist, including watches and fitness bands, has, well, grabbed Americans by the wrist. According to a 2016 essay in PLOS Medicine, 1 in 6 U.S. consumers used wearable technology, and it predicted that 110 million fitness devices were likely to be sold in 2018.

Read more at US News.