US Lawmakers Push Tech Firms on Abortion Benefits for Gig Workers
When WIRED asked companies about their policies after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Amazon, DoorDash, and Lyft acknowledged that their abortion travel benefits did not apply...
Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful ‘Mafia’ Gets a New Boss
The power of Y Combinator has always been its network. The legendary Silicon Valley startup accelerator is known for smelting mere ideas into some of the...
‘Date Me’ Google Docs and the Hyper-Optimized Quest for Love
Olsson didn’t really promote her Date Me doc, but Chana Messinger, a teacher and blogger, tweeted it out in March 2021, saying, “I love this genre...
GM’s Cruise Recalls Self-Driving Software Involved in June Crash
Autonomous driving company Cruise and US regulators said today that the General Motors subsidiary had recalled software deployed on 80 vehicles after two people were injured...
Twitter Finally Gets an Edit Button
Another issue naysayers are likely to have with Twitter’s edit feature as currently designed is that it initially hides the context of what was changed from...
Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
Picking her new name led Tess Tanenbaum to ponder many questions. Am I Josie or a Hanna? Should it sound similar to her previous masculine name?...
Behind Google Worker Protests of an Israeli Government Cloud Deal
Ariel Koren, a Google employee who became a face of worker protests against the company’s contract with the Israeli government, announced her resignation yesterday. The Jewish...
A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply-Chain Chaos
Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low...
Twitter, Meta, and Blowing the Whistle on Big Tech
Hi, folks. We won’t have Fauci to kick around much longer. But we’ll always have Covid. The Plain View In late 1969, Daniel Ellsberg made a...
Driving Toward the Automobile’s Electric, Autonomous Future
It’s a heady time to be a car executive. Lawmakers worldwide are pushing the auto industry to electrify, and fast. US companies are under pressure to...