Just Eat outsources 6,000 of its riders and drivers working across six UK cities to Dutch staffing agency Randstad, to comply with stricter UK employment rules Techmeme · 4 months ago
Despite high hopes, AI in health care hasn't been effective because medical data is more complex and scarce than web data, resulting in misleading results Techmeme · 4 months ago
Pixel art video games have experienced a renaissance over the past decade, led by indie developers, countering an industry obsessed with horsepower and realism Techmeme · 4 months ago
An economist details working in VR using an Oculus headset: few distractions and little motion sickness, but typing is hard and forehead gets numb Techmeme · 5 months ago
Signal quietly made its MobileCoin-based cryptocurrency payments feature available to all users globally in November 2021, after a test in the UK Techmeme · 5 months ago
In the fall, John Deere will start selling its fully autonomous 8R tractor, which can gather data about the soil to improve its algorithms as it operates Techmeme · 5 months ago
A critique of much-hyped crypto-based virtual real estate projects, such as Decentraland, which are often buggy, empty, and lack moderation tools Techmeme · 5 months ago
Behind the rise of "alt-jihadists" on social media and how they have adopted alt-right's organizational tactics and imagery to fuel their growing movement Techmeme · 5 months ago
Before implementing e2ee, Meta must improve its existing content-oblivious harm-reduction mechanisms, limit recommendation engines and discoverability, and more Techmeme · 6 months ago
AI researcher Timnit Gebru, who left Google last year, launches Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research, focusing on the responsible use of AI Techmeme · 6 months ago
Q&A with Frances Haugen on becoming a whistleblower, leaving Facebook after moving to Puerto Rico due to health, Meta, plans to run simulated social networks Techmeme · 6 months ago
A look at efforts to develop brain-computer interfaces, including Musk's Neuralink and a DARPA program to build a 64,000-electrode array for brain implants Techmeme · 6 months ago
Alphabet X's Everyday Robots says it now has a fleet of 100+ robot prototypes that are autonomously performing tasks like wiping tables around its offices Techmeme · 6 months ago
Internal docs and sources detail Amazon's careless handling of its retail customer data, including letting some low-level staff snoop on celebrity purchases Techmeme · 6 months ago
How investigators like "Gabagool" are using open source tech to identify, track down, and expose foul play and questionable practices in DeFi Techmeme · 6 months ago
Profile of CryptoPunks, an NFT project founded by two Canadian developers in 2017, which has reached $1.5B in lifetime sales as NFTs explode in popularity Techmeme · 6 months ago
Consumer advocates say buy now, pay later services like Afterpay and Affirm can be especially confusing for younger users and make it easy to get overextended Techmeme · 6 months ago
The FBI and DHS say a drone dangling copper wires tried to disrupt a PA power substation in July 2020, the first drone attack targeting US energy infrastructure Techmeme · 7 months ago
A look at the fight between city officials and parents over Stockholm's glitchy app for its schools, as annoyed parents built their own open source version Techmeme · 7 months ago
How payment processors hold the power to decide which products and services can be purchased online, as Stripe bans businesses like tarot card reading Techmeme · 7 months ago
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years Techmeme · 7 months ago
Leaked docs offer a blueprint for solving Facebook's problems: improve products by deprioritizing engagement, reduce AI reliance, focus on developing countries Techmeme · 7 months ago
Internal docs reveal farewell posts by some Facebook employees detail disappointment and dissatisfaction with a company unwilling or unable to change Techmeme · 7 months ago
Crunchbase: startups with only female founders raised 2.3% of VC funding in 2021, the lowest in five years; 86% went to startups with only male founders Techmeme · 7 months ago
Laptops that US schools issued to students for remote learning are likely to have monitoring software, disproportionately affecting low-income students and PoC Techmeme · 8 months ago
Cloudflare announces Email Routing and Email Security DNS Wizard, built on top of Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and others to prevent phishing, spoofing, and more Techmeme · 8 months ago
Russia's demand that Apple, Google, and other foreign tech companies employ local operatives, who can be prosecuted, likely influenced removing Navalny's app Techmeme · 8 months ago
The social media industry needs its own version of journalism's firewall to shield safety, moderation, and enforcement decisions from execs focused on growth Techmeme · 8 months ago
Interview with DeSnake, the self-proclaimed co-founder of dark web market AlphaBay taken down by the DOJ in 2017, on relaunching, security, and more Techmeme · 8 months ago
Twitch sues two anonymous users, accusing them of "hate raids" harassing black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist, and other content Techmeme · 8 months ago
Investigation reveals how social media influencers in Kenya are hired to spread disinformation on Twitter against Kenyan journalists, judges, and activists Techmeme · 9 months ago