Month: October 2020

Some Shipt workers report seeing lower pay under new effort-based model

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A new crowdsourced report finds that the algorithm for shopping delivery platform Shipt has led to reduced pay for 40 percent of its workers. First reported by Gizmodo, the report from Coworker.org, a pro-labor nonprofit organization that helps workers organize, gathered screenshots from more than 200

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Watch with Family Setup, Apple's take on GPS tracking smartwatches for kids, has features like Schooltime mode while offering good privacy, but is very costly (Dan Seifert/The Verge)

Dan Seifert / The Verge: Watch with Family Setup, Apple’s take on GPS tracking smartwatches for kids, has features like Schooltime mode while offering good privacy, but is very costly  —  Apple’s take on a GPS tracker for kids is unique but costly  —  The most interesting Apple Watch product Apple announced this year …

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How fraudsters dupe the art world

Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz / Barcroft Media via Getty Images The Civil War-era desk, designed in 1876, looked too good to be true. Ornate, fashioned from walnut, maple, and oak, it was created to honor Union infantryman John Bingham. “When you opened the door, it played Yankee Doodle Dandy,” said Clayton Pennington, a Maine Antique

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Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era  —  Facebook’s chief, once uninterested, has transformed himself into an active political operator in the Trump era Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself

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As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech giants lack local knowledge and nuanced understanding to weigh information threats in other countries (Axios)

Axios: As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech giants lack local knowledge and nuanced understanding to weigh information threats in other countries  —  While regulators in the U.S. and Europe circle Facebook and scrutinize its every move, in much of the rest of the world … As American-run companies, Facebook and other US tech

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