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Shipt

Target's Delivery App Workers to Be Paid by a Blackbox Algorithm Nationwide

Target's delivery app Shipt claims that the new pay model will compensate its 200,000 delivery workers based on "effort." But in cities where the model has already taken effect, workers claim their wages have fallen by 15-50 percent.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
9.11.20
News

COVID-19 Has Forced an Entire Canadian Province to Ban Karaoke

After an outbreak tied to a karaoke bar spread to at least 68 people, Quebec has banned the activity. Some Québécois karaoke fans are not happy.
Mack Lamoureux
9.11.20
Games News

We're Playing Games for National Bailout This Week

Friends of Waypoint, old and new, come together to play games for a good cause.
Rob Zacny
9.11.20
wildfires

Oregon's Firefighting Helicopters Are Deployed in Afghanistan as the State Burns

Six CH-47 chinooks aren’t available to fight the fires because they deployed to Afghanistan in May.
Matthew Gault
9.11.20
police brutality

4 Cops Were Just Fired for Shooting a Man 21 Times When He Was Already Down

“For them to stay the line and shoot a man 21 times, I cannot defend that," the Houston police chief said.
Trone Dowd
9.11.20
global conflict

Everything You Need to Know About India and China’s Ongoing Border Dispute

This time, the experts say, the conflict could potentially spiral out of control.
Pallavi Pundir
9.11.20
contact tracing

LA Is Partnering With an Infamous Crime-Reporting App to Track Coronavirus

With a history of privacy violations and racial profiling, it’s hard to think of an entity more ill-suited for this.
Edward Ongweso Jr
9.11.20
Internet

How a Flurry of Flash Games on Newgrounds Captured the Grief and Anger of 9/11

'The Bin Laden game is the sort of thing I wouldn't make nowadays but I feel the anger was justified at the time.'
Mark Hill
9.11.20
brazil

Death-by-Police Has Plummeted in Brazil's Favelas Since the Supreme Court's Police Ban

The temporary ruling from the Supreme Court is saving lives in one of the worst-offending countries for police brutality.
Natália Scarabotto
9.11.20
police

UK Police Can't Search You Just Because You Smell of Weed, Watchdog Says

Two-thirds of stop and searches are conducted under the pretext of drugs searches.
Simon Childs
9.11.20
climate

Record Flooding Kills at Least 200 in Africa's Sahel Region

Unprecedented rainfall has displaced hundreds of thousands, and led experts to warn of potential food shortages.
Jamie Clifton
9.11.20
Donald Trump

The Trump Campaign Tracked a Reporter From Her Tweets and Kicked Her Out of a Rally

Trump spent the rally calling for the return of college football and warning that "residents of antifa" are coming to a suburb near you.
Paul Blest
9.11.20
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