Scores of spirited demonstrators, including many Uber and Lyft drivers and others showing solidarity, rallied outside Uber headquarters in San Francisco’s Mid-Market district on Wednesday to demand rideshare companies improve driver pay and working conditions. Holding up a sign lamenting that most drivers got nothing while Uber executives and other Read more…
Thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers are preparing to strike in cities across the United States and Britain on Wednesday, May 8 ahead of Uber’s IPO. In the US, many participating drivers will turn off their apps starting in the morning commute hours of 7-9 am, CNN reports. Money reports Read more…
Google will soon launch a new feature that will allow you to automatically delete your account’s location history and web activity data, and we say not a moment too soon. For years, Google has been telling us that we’ve got control of our privacy. And while it is true that Read more…
The European Union has published new guidelines explaining how governments and businesses can develop “trustworthy artificial intelligence.” The EU’s High-Level Expert Group on AI has laid out three core rules for trustworthy AI — artificial intelligence technology should be legal, ethical and robust. To this end, the group presented a Read more…
Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren published a Medium post on Friday calling for the breakup of big technology companies in service of “protecting the future of the Internet” by encouraging competition and innovation. “Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our Read more…
An undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong-Un looking at a computer during a military drill.” An undated picture released by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency shows leader Kim Jong-Un looking at a computer during a military drill. South Korea Read more…
As their numbers and confidence swell, Republicans in Congress are preparing to fight the Obama administration’s plans to protect net neutrality. The Wall Street Journal reports Republicans are looking at a number of options to thwart proposed rules designed to protect net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated Read more…
Former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin triggered a social media firestorm after she posted Facebook photos of her son using the family dog as a step stool. Palin’s post includes photos of 6-year-old Trig, who has Down Syndrome, standing on the back of the prone black Labrador Read more…
Google is warning that a US government plan to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s hacking powers is a monumental constitutional threat. The federal government wants to make it easier for the FBI to hack into computers of Internet users who seek to keep their online activities anonymous. At issue is Read more…
Two student groups have blasted an outrageous University of Massachusetts Amherst policy that bans Iranian students from enrolling in a wide range of science, engineering and technology courses due to US sanctions policy against the Islamic Republic. Beginning on February 1, the prestigious university stopped admitting Iranians to various programs Read more…