A proposal in the South Korean legislature is an early test of how forcefully the Biden administration will defend the companies abroad while trying to trim their power at home.
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California’s Gig Worker Law: What to Know
The law, the result of a $200 million proposition fight last year, ensures that workers like Uber and Lyft drivers are considered independent contractors.
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Workers Can’t Wait to Return, but Delta Variant Upends Plans
As coronavirus cases rise and companies keep workplaces closed, frustrated employees can’t wait to return to their cubicles.
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(BPRW) Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Launches Use of Force Dashboard and Video Evidence Submittal Portal
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA — Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms launched two initiatives per her Administrative Orders related to the Mayor’s Use of Force Advisory Council recommendations: a public use of force dashboard and a video evidence su
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Looking for a new job in tech? It may be your lucky day
Enlarge (credit: Vicki Been | Getty Images) Two months ago, Jacob Eiting closed the Series B for his startup RevenueCat, which makes a platform for managing in-app subscriptions. The $40 million investment was meant to grow the company and, crucially, to hire more people. The 35-person startup hopes to expand to 50 employees by the...
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Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?
Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko | Getty Images) Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a different question: How can we make machines forget? A nascent area of computer science dubbed machine unlearning seeks ways to induce selective amnesia in artificial intelligence software. The...
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(BPRW) Apple selects 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses for first-of-its-kind Impact Accelerator
(Black PR Wire) CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today unveiled its first class of 15 Black- and Brown-owned businesses on the cutting edge of green technology and clean energy, who will join the company’s Impact Accelerator to support equity
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Why Facebook Shelved an Earlier Report on Popular Posts
The company praised itself this week for being “the most transparent platform on the internet.”
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Who Gets the L.L.C.? Inside a Silicon Valley Billionaire’s Divorce.
A couple are heading to court to decide who is entitled to a fortune, started in the earliest days of Google, that includes valuable California real estate and stock holdings.
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How the Taliban Turned Social Media Into a Tool for Control
In the 1990s, they banned the internet. Now they use it to threaten and cajole the Afghan people, in a sign of how they might use technology to build power.