On Wednesday, Uber and Lyft released a new petition against Assembly Bill 5, the California bill about to be debated in the Senate that, if passed, would almost certainly result in gig economy workers being designated as employees in the state rather than…

Back in 2017, neuroscientists used a classic branch of maths in a totally new way to peer into the structure of our brains.

Google has pushed RCS messaging – a superior alternative to SMS – to Android phones in the UK and France. But only 43 mobile operators, out of around 850 globally, are working with the company

Over the past week, Cindy and I have been staying in the Marais district of Paris, wandering around and living like locals. Perhaps…

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An inventor of punk rock on his long career, the future, and swimming in Miami.

Alcohol preferences in Europe vary from country to country between beer, wine or spirits. These preferences are traditionally associated with certain regions. Hence, the Central European pattern of alcohol consumption is associated with beer-drinking, the…

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After spending 6 months trying to write automated UI tests, we gave up. What challenges did we face and what did we get wrong along the…

"I don’t know if we could’ve written it ourselves—it took a risk maybe we aren’t willing to."

"We need to know what structure is in place ... and we don’t have that kind of information," say civil rights groups

It seemed simple enough at the time. In 2009, John Harrison, a 63–year-old oil industry sales manager in Mission, Texas, had surgery to repair the rotator cuff in his right shoulder, a routine procedure that usually requires at most a single night’s stay…

American consumers spend, on average, 13 hours per year in calling queue with an estimated monetary cost of $38 billion. A third of complaining customers must make two or more calls to resolve their complaint. And that ignores the portion who simply give…