Uber wants to redefine employment. More than 50 labor groups are fighting back

  Hacker News   ·   3 hours ago

Trump ended coronavirus detection pandemic program – Los Angeles Times

  Pinboard   ·   4 days ago

Deep underwater, French submariners are likely unaware of pandemic

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: 'We're going to be fine'

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

Amazon taught us to rely on fast delivery. In coronavirus era, it can’t keep up

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again

  Hacker News   ·   4 weeks ago

A look at the state of telecommuting as ICANN holds its four-day Public Meeting, with ~3,000 people from 150 countries, remotely for the first time

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Twitter says it strongly encourages its 4,800 employees to work from home to avoid spreading coronavirus, the first major US company to do so

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Making French fries sucks. This robot does it for $3 an hour with no breaks

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Federal safety official slams Tesla, regulators for misuse of its Autopilot tech

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

It’s time to regulate internet service like any other utility

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Death of rocket man ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes ends years of close calls

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies, citing platform manipulation and duplicative content

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Think you want to die at home? You might want to think twice about that

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Sources: Uber shuts down its customer support office in LA, laying off ~80 employees and outsourcing their jobs to a support office in Manila

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

How a fire in the Inland Empire could spell doom for the worldwide vinyl LP boom

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Tech firm started by Clinton campaign veterans is linked to Iowa caucus reporting debacle

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Nearly 3 million subscribers ditched DirecTV last year. Will AT&T do the same?

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

In secret deal with drugmaker, health-records tool pushed opioids to doctors

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Remember DVDs? Two studios have a plan to preserve the near-dead format

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

GM plans to revive gas-guzzling Hummer as an electric truck and SUV

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Quibi, which had already raised $1B, says it has raised another $400M from undisclosed investors ahead of its April launch

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

California Sues Vinod Khosla over Martins Beach Public Access

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts warns of social media’s danger to democracy

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Susan Wojcicki is pushing to make YouTube responsible. PewDiePie is not pleased

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

CA is rewriting the rules of the internet. Businesses are scrambling to keep up

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Americans are retiring to Vietnam

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

California oceans rising in acidity at alarming rate, study finds

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

SuperShuttle is going out of business

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Math scares your child's elementary school teacher

  Pinboard   ·   4 months ago

Federal safety agency launches probe of Tesla battery fires

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

DNA genealogical databases are a gold mine for police, but with few rules and little transparency

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

A copy of your property deed costs $3. This SoCal firm will do it for $89

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

The market for bulletproof vehicles is exploding

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

As unionized dockworkers protest automation in LA ports, truckers welcome the port robots which reduce unpaid time they spend waiting for the cargo to load

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

How Google changed in the aftermath of a walkout by 20K employees, which helped inspire a new wave of tech worker activism across the tech industry

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

California suffered widespread cellphone outages during fires. A big earthquake would be much worse

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

L.A. suspends Uber for refusing to provider real-time data on scooters and bikes

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Waymo wants to offer robotaxis in California. But the state insists they be free

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Illegal drones ground water-dropping helicopters in Maria fire battle

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

The math of media bosses who told Deadspin to ‘stick to sports’ doesn’t add up

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Github is doubling down on its ICE contract, saying cancellation could "hurt the very people we all want to help" in internal memo, among rising employee anger

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

After layoffs and a PR disaster, some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Intentional blackouts of this magnitude are unprecedented in California history

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

On-Line Pizza Idea Is Clever but Only Half-Baked (1994)

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago