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Tech

YouTube Contract Workers Are Going on Strike

02.03.23

By Jules Roscoe
Tech

‘I Had Nothing to My Name’: Amazon Delivery Companies Are Being Crushed by Debt

03.07.22

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

Google Contractor Alleges Disability Discrimination in Mass Email

10.01.20

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

Baristas at Slack Say They’ve Won 90 Days of Severance

03.12.20

By Lauren Kaori Gurley
Tech

Google Is Investigating Why it Trained Facial Recognition on ‘Dark Skinned’ Homeless People

10.04.19

By Edward Ongweso Jr
Tech

Google Contractors Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union

08.30.19

By Edward Ongweso Jr
Tech

The People Paid to Dox Airbnb Addresses

08.22.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their Homes

08.21.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Working on Microsoft’s Cortana Is Laborious and Poorly Paid

08.14.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

Microsoft Admits Humans Listen to Skype and Cortana in Privacy Policy Update

08.14.19

By Joseph Cox
Tech

America Wasted $160 Million Trying to Get Afghanistan to Use E-Payments

08.22.17

By Matthew Gault
Pulse

LA wants city contractors to reveal if they work on Trump’s wall

08.09.17

By Josh Marcus

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Life

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We’ve all been there.

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Music

More Genres (And Artists) I Would Add to the ‘Dad Rock’ and ‘Cigarette Mom’ Musical Canon

Dad Rock and Cigarette Mom genres often boil down to a simple concept: mainstream music that white people like. Here’s more of that.

7 hours ago

By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

North Carolina Man Must Pay Back the Millions He Acquired in First-Ever Streaming Fraud Case

Michael Smith used AI-generated songs and bots to scam millions from streaming platforms since 2017, and now must face the music.

7 hours ago

By Lauren Boisvert