by David Gilbert on (#56JPG)
Dalit Indians working at U.S. tech companies tell VICE News they try to hide their identities to avoid caste-based discrimination they thought they had left behind.
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Updated | 2024-11-22 00:16 |
by Tess Owen on (#52JPH)
Twitter is dealing with a pandemic of bots jamming the platform with misinformation about COVID-19.
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by Paul Blest on (#51MQ0)
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon's strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers.
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by Emma Ockerman on (#50V71)
He’s the first confirmed homeless person to die of an illness that advocates and experts warn could be uniquely devastating to the nation’s 567,000 homeless people.
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by David Gilbert on (#50Q5X)
“They can actually track you. If you move your device from location A to B, they can actually see that in real time.”
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by Zaid Noorsumar on (#4ZZ2X)
It’s the first instance of app-based workers winning the right to join a union in Canada, and it could be a game changer for all gig economy workers.
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by Samantha Cole on (#4ZX1B)
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.
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by David Gilbert on (#4ZT0M)
Post something about coronavirus online? Expect a visitor at your door.
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by Harron Walker on (#4ZN8T)
Solace is a one-stop resource for people who know that they're trans but don't know where to start.
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by Laura Wagner on (#4ZJ2P)
A Vox Media executive took over a writer's Twitter account; Twitter won't say if they helped them do it.
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by David Gilbert on (#4Z9DA)
As Chinese tech companies have gone global, so has China’s ability to censor communications outside of the mainland.
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by David Uberti on (#4YJM4)
Anti-vaxx accounts are piggybacking on political hashtags like Joe Biden's #nomalarkey.
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by David Uberti on (#4XXAM)
GoFundMe reinstated two fundraisers for Canadian victims of the Tehran plane crash after verifying the funds wouldn’t go to individuals covered under sanctions.
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by Katie Way on (#4XJZ6)
Osé, the big toy at CES, seems both completely dystopian and completely hot.
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by Lauren Kaori Gurley on (#4XJNK)
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union has embarked on an ambitious national campaign to transform the tech and game industries for workers.
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by David Gilbert on (#4XGRC)
Over the past decade, Iran has launched attacks on the NYSE, a dam in New York, a Las Vegas casino, and the city of Atlanta.
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by David Uberti on (#4XD1P)
The former New York City mayor has spent almost $200 million, and he still has billions left in his account.
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by Elizabeth Renstrom on (#4WYZV)
Artist Jason Lazarus is looking for your submissions of what he calls the "world's smallest protest sign."
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by Joseph Cox on (#4WT4F)
AWS said the data was anonymous and to help understand attendance at certain events.
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by David Gilbert on (#4WRD6)
No previous fact-checking or journalism experience required.
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by David Uberti on (#4WN3F)
A network of debt "relief" companies operate Facebook pages that collect data on people in financial trouble.
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by David Gilbert on (#4W1B6)
“My first day on the job, I witnessed someone being beaten to death with a plank of wood with nails in it and repeatedly stabbed.â€
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by Alex Lubben on (#4VRPR)
Phillip Lee Terry died after a forklift crushed him at an Amazon warehouse in September 2017.
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by Leila Ettachfini on (#4VHW1)
Yet the company says it supports "comprehensive immigration reform."
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by Tim Marcin on (#4TZNZ)
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is the fifth-largest investor in Uber.
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by Maxwell Strachan on (#4TRYT)
The company's CEO said in an email that the company would undertake a year-long project to ensure every listing is advertised accurately.
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by Samantha Cole on (#4TQ7H)
This adversarial design could be printed on a shirt to fool object recognition algorithms.
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by Brendan O'Connor on (#4T5GZ)
"Nobody is running the day-to-day business. It's such a shit show," said one current employee.
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