City officials send cease-and-desist letters to electric scooter startups, as local residents complain the unregulated schemes are a nuisance Some people are tossing the scooters into trash cans and lakes. Others are tripping over them on the sidewalk, complaining of broken toes and dangerous collisions. The San Francisco war over electric scooters – which several […]
I remember when, at Harvard, my friends and I heard about a new website that promised to enhance our lives. Fourteen years later I see how wrong we were Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake. Like a lot of mistakes made at the age of 20 inside a college […]
The latest treatise on technology taking over our lives suggests democratic systems are incompatible with the digital age, but the theory lacks coherenceThere is a clear, algorithmic formula for writing books about technology and society in 2018. Authors are generally required to be male, their documented personal journey must have been from that of techno-optimist […]
What do we really know about the influence of the ‘voter button’? One Icelandic media lawyer decided to find outOn the morning of 28 October last year, the day of Iceland’s parliamentary elections, Heiðdís Lilja Magnúsdóttir, a lawyer living in a small town in the north of the country, opened Facebook on her laptop. At […]
Company reportedly told employees it ‘caught 29 leakers’ last year and 12 were arrested, according to memo obtained by BloombergApple reportedly warned employees in an internal memo that it “caught 29 leakers” last year and that 12 were arrested, adding that workers who disclose information to the media have “everything to lose”. The memo about […]
When a worker alleged discrimination, the company sought to keep him quiet: ‘If there is media attention, there will be no deal’Tesla had a clear message to DeWitt Lambert, a black employee alleging racial discrimination: take our money and stay quiet. “In terms of settlement, we are willing to pay Mr. Lambert [redacted], but only […]