My Week With the Future of Garbage Bins
It’s 10 pm and, like a vampire stirring in its coffin to greet the nocturne, my garbage bin comes to life. A semicircle of yellow lights...
Tech Workers Fight for Iran Protesters as Big Tech Plays It Safe
Google’s Ukraine response saw it and its employees donate over $45 million in a campaign it promoted several times on a company blog. For Iran, Google...
Twitter sued for not paying San Francisco office rent
California Property Trust, the owner of the building that houses Twitter headquarters, is suing Elon Musk’s social media company for failing to pay $136,250 in rent....
Grubhub ordered to pay $3.5 million to settle Washington DC deceptive practices lawsuit
Grubhub has been ordered to pay $3.5 million to settle the lawsuit filed against the company by the District of Columbia over “deceptive trade practices.” Washington...
NLRB says Tesla violated the law by telling employees not to talk about pay
The National Labor Relations Board has accused Tesla of violating labor law by prohibiting employees in Orlando, Florida from talking about workplace matters. According to Bloomberg,...
Google will pay $9.5 million to settle Washington DC AG’s location-tracking lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Washington DC Attorney General Karl Racine, who accused the company earlier this year...
This Was the Year That Electric Vehicles Took Off
It might finally be happening. For years now, technologists have promised that the age of the electric vehicle cometh. After false starts in the early 20th...
Amazon Has Conquered Christmas—but Its Reign May Be Ending
The problem with Amazon’s own-brand mince pies is that they’re delicious. For years, the ecommerce giant has stuck its fingers into every pie going—Amazon wind farms...
Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those of us as terminally online as...