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I spent much of last week at blockchain conferences, and I’m about ready to never hear the word again. This despite the fact I’ve been supporting...
Are Uber and Lyft Drivers Gaming Surge Pricing to Protest Getting Screwed Over on Pay?
Despite policies that prohibit the manipulation of rideshare apps, drivers for Uber and Lyft are reportedly working together to coordinate price surges at Reagan National Airport...
Postmates workers want minimum delivery guarantees and at least $15 per hour
IPO-bound Postmates is under fire right now after making some changes to its payments structure for its delivery workers. Organizers at Working Washington say these changes...
GM’s car-sharing service Maven to exit eight cities
GM is scaling back its Maven car-sharing company and will stop service in nearly half of the 17 North American cities in which it operates. A...
Snap appoints new execs as it aims to keep 2019 momentum
Snap has another appointment in the apt saga of its ephemeral CFOs. Four months after losing its CFO Tim Stone following a reported “personality clash” between...
This Is Easily the Best Correction in Science Publishing This Month
Science journalists around the world received one of the silliest corrections yet in our inbox over the weekend, and I would like to share it here...
Google Researchers Trained an Algorithm To Detect Lung Cancer Better Than Radiologists
Algorithms have screwed up in horrifying, hilarious, and unfortunate ways, so it’s nice when one with the potential to save lives nearly nails it. On Monday,...
Stanford’s Doggo is a petite robotic quadruped you can (maybe) build yourself
Got a few thousand bucks and a good deal of engineering expertise? You’re in luck: Stanford students have created a quadrupedal robot platform called Doggo that...
Scammers Are Using Facebook to Trick People Into Thinking They Accidentally Donated Money to ISIS
Scammers are using Facebook Messenger and other apps in an attempt to convince Americans that they accidentally gave money to terrorist groups like ISIS, according to...
US mitigates Huawei ban by offering temporary reprieve
Two steps forward, one step back. The Trump administration has seemingly been trying to calibrate its strategy around its intensifying trade dispute with China. Last week,...
