Month: February 2020
Go read this grim Motherboard report about what it’s like to work at Target delivery company Shipt
The gig economy of ride-sharing and grocery delivery has become notorious for exploiting and mistreating workers — and now, Motherboard has an inside look at one particularly bad example. A new piece digs into Target-owned grocery delivery company Shipt, examining all the extra work drivers feel pressured to do just…
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Rocket Lab will launch a satellite to the Moon for NASA to prepare for the Lunar Gateway
Launch startup Rocket Lab has been awarded a contract to launch a CubeSat on behalf of NASA for the agency’s CAPSTONE experiment, with the ultimate aim of putting the CAPSTONE CubeSat into cislunar (in the region in between Earth and the Moon) orbit – the same orbit that NASA will…
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Vodafone Idea shares tumble 23% after India orders it to pay billions in dues
Shares of Vodafone Idea fell by more than 23% on Friday after India’s apex court ordered the country’s second-largest telecom operator and Airtel, the third-largest telecom network, to arrange and pay billions of dollars in dues in a month. In a strongly worded judgement, the Supreme Court rejected telecom networks’…
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Apple might use its own 5G antenna in its 2020 iPhones
Apple is widely expected to debut its first 5G iPhones this fall, powered by Qualcomm’s X55 modem — thanks to Apple and Qualcomm’s surprise settlement last year that saw the two companies resume business. But a new report from Fast Company indicates that Apple is looking to limit its reliance…
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FBI warns over fresh malware from North Korea
The FBI and Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released new information on North Korean malware in the form of six new and updated Malware Analysis Reports (MARs). The US agencies released these MARs in order to provide organizations with detailed malware analysis information which was acquired by manually reverse…
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Coronavirus cancellations show evidence-based decisions are rare during epidemics
Giant corporations, governments, and individuals are all making decisions that they hope will reduce the risk of spreading the new coronavirus — but not all of those tough calls are solely based on the latest health information. The factors that led people to enact two-week travel restrictions, or stock up…
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