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The Amazon Case Signals a Tougher Stance on Gig Economy Firms
The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that Amazon had agreed to repay drivers for its Flex delivery service almost $62…
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A Vaccine Enrollment Mess of Epidemic Proportions
Featured Video CES HQ 2021: Covid Vaccines and Triumphs in Medicine Dr. Jennifer Doudna, the coinventor of CRISPR, and Dr.…
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Robinhood Restricts GameStop Trading—in a Bid to Save Itself
Many of Robinhood’s detractors accuse the company of acting in the interest of institutional short sellers rather than the individual…
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A Fight Over GameStop’s Soaring Stock Turns Ugly
On Friday, Left set up a second Citron Research Twitter handle, claiming that several people had attempted to hack the…
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Alphabet Is Grounding Loon—but Won’t Call It a Failure
The interesting thing is how far Loon got before Alphabet pulled the plug. When Teller first heard the idea, he…
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Facebook Can’t Fix What It Won’t Admit To
I told Zuckerberg that right now my News Feed is basically … Trump, Trump, Trump, married, Trump, baby, Trump. I…
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Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
On January 4, a group of workers at Google parent company Alphabet said they had formed a union to influence…
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A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard
Facebook might have run out the clock on Donald Trump’s posts—I predict a permanent ban at some point—but the episode…
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Conferences After Covid Will Be Shorter—and Smarter
A virtual pet parade, a “social shouting” Slack channel, and Zoom karaoke—these are some of the activities that event planners…
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Why Did the NSA Go (Virtually) MIA?
Plus: A visit to the agency’s headquarters, a license for engineers, and a holiday reprieve. Source link
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