A Pioneer of Digital Design Looks Back on a Defining Era
Loretta Staples, a U.I. designer in the 1980s and ’90s, had a front-row seat to the rise of personal computing.Read More
Year: 2021
Amazon Labor Fight: Wages May Not Ward Off Union
Recent organizing campaigns in the South suggest the company’s wage scale may have left it vulnerable to a union.Read More
If You Look at Your Phone While Walking, You’re an Agent of Chaos
An experiment by Japanese researchers revealed how just a few distracted walkers really can throw off the movements of a whole crowd.Read More
An Amazon warehouse employee testified before the Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday about the “grueling” working conditions that led her and others to organize...
“I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long is now a PC guy.
Uber has made a major concession on labor rights in the United Kingdom. But that doesn’t mean the gig economy will transform into a...
What To Know About the Amazon Unionization Vote
The unionization effort, which began last summer, is the largest and most viable organizing campaign among Amazon workers in the United States.Read More
Walmart becomes largest U.S. vaccine provider to join push for digital vaccination credentials.
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The retail giant joined an international push to provide standardized digital vaccination credentials.Read More
Learning Apps Have Boomed During the Pandemic. Now Comes the Real Test
Start-ups hope there’s no turning back for online learning, even as more students return to the classroom.Read More
What the U.S. Missed With Google
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Newly revealed memos show that government investigators saw red flags in Google’s behavior nearly a decade ago.Read More