March 19, 2021 Instacart’s harsh ratings system hurts grocery delivery people like me Our livelihoods depend on a ratings system that must change. It was the last job of the night. At 9 o’clock in New York…
March 19, 2021 The uneasy intimacy of work in a pandemic year Yeyei Gómez for Vox How capitalism and the pandemic destroyed our work-life balance. As we confront the one-year anniversary of the US locking down…
March 18, 2021 Amazon’s $10 billion NFL deal is huge — and a sign that sports is staying on TV for a while longer Tom Brady in the 2021 Super Bowl. | Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The NFL loves TV and TV loves the NFL. It’s…
March 17, 2021 The teenager behind last year’s big celebrity Twitter hack is going to prison Twitter’s New York City headquarters on July 30, 2020. | John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx via AP Images Graham Ivan Clark took a plea deal and…
March 16, 2021 TikTok surprises users by making personalized ads mandatory TikTok users used to be able to opt out of personalized ads. Soon, they won’t. | Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images On April 15,…
March 15, 2021 Clubhouse got a little less creepy thanks to a recent update Clubhouse no longer makes users upload their contacts to invite others to join the app. | Photo illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images The…
March 15, 2021 Facebook is doing its best to counter anti-vaccination damage done by Facebook A Colorado man takes a photo of himself after getting a Covid-19 vaccine. | Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images To get 50 million people vaccinated, Facebook…
March 15, 2021 Peter Thiel is making the biggest political bet of his life J.D. Vance stands to benefit from his ties to Peter Thiel, for whom he used to work. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The billionaire investor…
March 15, 2021 Who isn’t getting vaccinated, and why A new report looks into why people don’t want to get vaccines, and what can be done to change their minds. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty…
March 13, 2021 How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon all have personalized advertising programs that sell your data. | John Lamparski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images T-Mobile’s new personalized ad…