AI-enhanced collective bargaining tools could help gig workers solve problems Researchers at Northeastern University have created artificial intelligence tools to help gig workers organize, collect their own job-related data, analyze their work problems and come up with a ... 05/22/2024 - 6:36 am | View Link
CT GOP lawmakers come out swinging against idea of border tolls. Do we need to worry? It will serve as a tax on Connecticut residents, especially on those who live near the Massachusetts border and who work in Massachusetts,” the senators said. 05/22/2024 - 5:29 am | View Link
California's Top Court Weighs Legality of Ballot Measure That Allowed Gig Work at Uber, Lyft The seven-member California Supreme Court heard oral arguments in San Francisco in a lawsuit by the Service Employees International Union and four drivers who say a 2020 ballot measure known as ... 05/21/2024 - 1:45 pm | View Link
Here’s what’s in the bill regulating Uber and Lyft driver pay and labor standards Uber and Lyft drivers in New York state are entitled to $26 per hour on average for the time between accepting a fare and dropping a passenger off. The minimum rates were agreed to by Uber and Lyft as ... 05/21/2024 - 9:51 am | View Link
Many drivers for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are earning well below minimum wage, even with tips, a new paper finds Many gig drivers earn less than local minimum wage after expenses, some earning just 40 cents an hour before tips, a new UC Berkeley paper finds. 05/20/2024 - 10:45 pm | View Link
Meta attributed the campaign to Tel Aviv-based political marketing firm STOIC.
Meta said on Wednesday it had found “likely AI-generated” content used deceptively on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including comments praising Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza published below posts from global news organizations and U. S. lawmakers.
Enlarge / A rendering of the European cargo reentry vehicle proposed by Thales Alenia Space. (credit: Thales Alecia Space)
The European Space Agency has awarded initial contracts to a German-based startup and one of the continent's established aerospace companies to develop spacecraft to ferry cargo to and from space stations in low-Earth orbit.
ESA announced the two 25 million euro ($27 million) contracts May 22.
Qommittee consists of about 10 drag performers nationwide who have experienced, directly or indirectly, threats, harassment, or violence related to their art form.
“Drag is joy, but it’s under attack. Our very existence, our self-expression, our art—all of it is being threatened. And we’ve had enough.”
The urgent request comes after one person in a Nissan was killed by an exploding front-passenger inflator, and as many as 58 people were injured since 2015.
Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal fragments.
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Yesterday, Amazon failed to convince a US district court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit targeting the tech giant's alleged history of tricking people into signing up for Prime.
The FTC has alleged that Amazon "tricked, coerced, and manipulated consumers into subscribing to Amazon Prime," a court order said, failing to get informed consent by designing a murky sign-up process.
Enlarge / ICQ in Windows 98. (credit: Samuel Axon)
After nearly 28 years in operation, messaging service ICQ will cease operations on June 26, according to its current owners.
You'd be forgiven for not realizing it still existed; the proto-IM service hasn't been in the mainstream since the 2000s. But in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it simultaneously laid the groundwork for direct messaging and social networking as we came to know it in the post-Facebook era.
28 years of history
ICQ was something of an accident, as popular as it became.