Month: March 2022
“I Had To Return My Vehicle”: Rideshare Drivers Are Struggling To Pay Their Bills Amid Rising Gas Prices
LOS ANGELES — Raul Rivera’s budget stretched thinner and thinner as gas prices rose — from $2.26 a gallon in his native New York City at the start of 2021, to $2.80 last spring, to more than $3 last summer, to around $3.40 through the holidays. As a rideshare driver…
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GGWP is an AI system that tracks and fights in-game toxicity
When it comes to online games, we all know the “report” button doesn’t do anything. Regardless of genre, publisher or budget, games launch every day with ineffective systems for reporting abusive players, and some of the largest titles in the world exist in a constant state of apology for harboring…
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Apple iPad Air ‘creak’ stories don’t add up
Audio player loading… Apple is many things, secretive, sometimes expensive, but it’s not sloppy. To build new Apple iPad Air tablets that creak when you hold or press them, that would be sloppy or worse. On Reddit, there are some new iPad Air owners accusing the tech giant of shoddy…
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Google settles with engineers who said they were fired for trying to organize
Google has settled with six engineers over claims the company squashed employees’ efforts to organize, as first reported by Motherboard. The specifics of the settlement remain under a non-disclosure agreement, but four of the workers who were allegedly fired out of retaliation for their labor activism in 2019 will not…
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Russia is blocking more and more VPNs
Audio player loading… Since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has forced Google to delist over 36k URLs that link to VPN services according to new research from Surfshark. During the first week of the invasion, there was only a slight increase of seven percent when it came…
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The Mac Studio’s removable SSD is reportedly blocked by Apple on a software level
Apple’s new Mac Studio was revealed to have an interesting secret over the weekend: it has removable SSD storage. But a subsequent video from YouTuber Luke Miani reveals that the Mac Studio still can’t be upgraded: not because of hardware limitations, but because Apple appears to be blocking replacement SSDs…
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