This week, in a letter addressing individual workers of the food delivery service DoorDash, the company's co-founder and CEO Tony Xu appeared to finally face brewing tension over the startup's tipping model. In the letter, Xu said the company would be organizing surveys and roundtables with its delivery workers,...
Scientists in India observed the highest-voltage thunderstorm ever documented with the help of a subatomic particle you might not hear much about: the muon.
On the heels of this week's news that a major tech company had scraped nearly a million images off Flickr to help train a facial-recognition tool, Senate lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at prohibiting commercial users of facial recognition from collecting and re-sharing such data without the...
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Months after a manufactured controversy about crude tweets saw Disney eject Gunn from the third movie in his Marvel cosmic series, Marvel Studios has confirmed that, shockingly, the director will return after all.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been more than clear that services like the iOS App Store are an essential part of the company's future as consumers hang onto devices for longer and longer periods between upgrades. When Spotify filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple this week, it fired a direct shot at the tech giant's...
In the absence of proactive tools to prevent dirtbags from nonconsensually uploading intimate photos to the internet, victims of revenge porn have little surefire recourse to ensure the photos stop circulating online. It's an exhausting and devastating game of whack-a-mole, and even when images are effectively...
Breakfast sandwich fans beware: Eating too many eggs might be bad for your health... again. A new study released Friday found that daily consumption of a certain amount of cholesterol, a key nutrient of eggs, is linked to a modest increase in the risk of cardiovascular disease and early death.
HBO has officially confirmed the runtime of Game of Thrones' final season. Across six episodes, fans have just 432 minutes left to spend with Jon, Dany, and the rest of Westeros. Prepare yourselves...accordingly?
Because it's 2019, and livestreaming has had five years or so to really build up into a mainstream activity that people actually do, this means that horrific acts of violence and terror around the world have a greater-than-zero chance of having some video component attached to them. After all, now that plenty of...
While the two-year legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm is far from over, we're starting to inch toward some kind of resolution.
In an about face, Netflix has decided to pull footage of the tragic Lac-Mégantic rail accident from its original film Bird Box--almost two months after a spokesperson said the clip will stay in the movie.
The clean energy revolution has arrived, and... it's complicated. New Mexico is now the third state to adopt a 100 percent clean energy mandate, with the legislature passing a bill Tuesday mandating the state reach that goal by 2045. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is expected to sign the bill any day now.
Humans couldn't always easily produce "f" and "v" sounds, according to a surprising new study. The reason we can now enjoy words like "flavor" and "effervescent," say the researchers, has to do with changes to the ancestral human diet and the introduction of soft foods--a development that altered the way we bite, and...
Even though the government shutdown ended more than a month and a half ago, we're still feeling its effects. That's because, despite HP issuing an expansion for a battery recall back in January, the notice wasn't posted to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) website until earlier this week due to the...
A new report from the United Nations shows that it's basically game over for the Arctic as we know it.