A Damning US Report Lays Bare Amazon’s Worker Injury Crisis
[ad_1] Amazon was hit with an unusually forceful safety citation by federal investigators in the US today. The findings appear to back up what some workers at the company have long…
Freedom of Thought Is a Human Right
[ad_1] In his 2019 Stanford address, Tim Cook warned about the threat to our “freedom to be human” from technology that looks to get inside our heads and rearrange the…
The Battle Over Women’s Data
[ad_1] 2023 will be the year that the battle over data ownership takes to the streets. The United States Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe v. Wade has politicalized women’s bodies—and…
Lina Khan’s Plan to Liberate US Workers
[ad_1] “I am dubious that three unelected technocrats have somehow hit on the right way to think about noncompetes and that all the preceding legal minds to examine this issue…
What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
[ad_1] Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace, former imperial gardens looted by European troops during the…
The Slow Death of Surveillance Capitalism Has Begun
[ad_1] Surveillance capitalism just got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalized advertising—a seemingly unremarkable regulatory ruling that could have…
The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders
[ad_1] Technology plays a significant role in community building—especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things, including their periods (nearly a third of all…
An Online Safety Bill Is Coming to the UK—But It’s Not Enough
[ad_1] For the past ten years, the biggest companies in the tech industry have effectively been allowed to mark their own homework. They’ve protected their power through extensive lobbying while…
AI Is Now Essential National Infrastructure
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, with projects like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2, Google’s MINERVA, and DeepMind’s Gato all pushing new technological boundaries. Until now, national governments have been slow to…
The Time for ‘Catalytic Government’ Is Now
[ad_1] In 1986, US President Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.” In Britain,…
3 Ways to Tame ChatGPT
[ad_1] This year, we’ve seen the introduction of powerful generative AI systems that have the ability to create images and text on demand. At the same time, regulators are on…
A New EU Rule Can Expose Greenwashers
[ad_1] In 2023, all companies listed on regulated markets in the European Union will begin applying the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), a new rule that will require them to…
A Row Erupts Over Texas’ Bold Bitcoin Battery Plan
[ad_1] Fred Thiel, CEO of Marathon Digital, claims that crypto miners participating in demand response schemes have helped to stave off blackouts in Texas this year. Mining facilities acted “like…
The US Congress Is Starting to Question This Whole Crypto Thing
[ad_1] “I think that a lot of members of Congress have assumed that the digital asset industry could be on the back burner because it’s immature,” Lummis says. “It’s growing…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Risks Big Fines From US Regulators
[ad_1] The FTC’s treatment of Facebook helps illustrate the danger to Musk and Twitter. In 2019, following a complaint alleging violation of a 2012 order, the agency hit the company…
Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats
[ad_1] Amid rising concerns about China’s growing international data collection apparatus, a newly divided US Congress is applying fresh scrutiny to the possibility that imported Chinese technology could be a…
Binance Has a Cunning Plan to Save Crypto—but It’s Too Late
[ad_1] “It’s a good learning moment for the industry,” says Hayden Adams, creator of UniSwap, the world’s largest decentralized exchange (DEX). “The fact that [FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried] had the…
China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance
[ad_1] By the mid-2010s, Chinese people in big cities had generally switched from using cash to using Alipay and WeChat Pay. By the end of 2021, about 64 percent of…
Elon Musk Has Put Twitter’s Free Speech in Danger
[ad_1] Before becoming Twitter’s CEO, owner, and “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk had often lobbed criticism at the platform for its approach to content moderation, even going so far as to…
Fintech in Latin America and Africa Is Breaking the Mold
[ad_1] This rings true for a country like Brazil. In 2019 the Central Bank of Brazil created Pix, an instant payment ecosystem that allows people, companies, and government entities to…
Cannabis Banking Startups Want to Make It Easy to Buy Weed
[ad_1] Physical safety is also a concern that fintech startups are trying to address. The more banks that go online and enter the space, the safer the people involved in…
New Financial Services Regs Will Require Comprehensive Action By Boards
[ad_1] New regulation will fundamentally change the landscape for the biggest tech companies—particularly cloud providers, says a new paper from JWG, the London-based think tank that tracks and analyzes financial…
Uber Squeezed Europe’s Taxi Drivers. Now It Wants to Hire Them
[ad_1] Drivers like Hubert might be skeptical of Uber’s deals, but within some unions there is real hostility toward the company. “We don’t expect anything from Uber. It is a…
The US Is Finally Considering Protections Against Salmonella
[ad_1] The autumn of 2013 was a stressful time for the Craten family, who live outside Phoenix, Arizona. In short order, three family members were diagnosed with the same type…
Vitalik Buterin on What’s Next for Ethereum After the Merge
[ad_1] GL: You’ve written a lot about governance, and I’m interested in the potential uses of blockchains for governments and societies. What is the potential of using decentralized systems like…