Uber is adding a number of key driver incentives to its app in an effort to bring more workers to the platform.
In the coming months, drivers in most U.S. markets will be able to see projected earnings before accepting a trip, as well as a user’s requested destination—two features gig workers have long demanded. The company first started piloting the Upfront Fares feature i
As a man of a certain age, I know that everything slows down as it gets older. But with computers, that decline can be especially precipitous. After just a couple of years, bootups can grow sluggish, apps may take longer to load, and the spinning wheel of death can become a more frequent feature of your user experience.
Eventually the frustrations become so great that people buy a new system. Sometimes that’s
Last week, Relativity Space and Impulse Space " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced a partnership to launch the first private mission to Mars. The two startups say they’ll try to launch a Red Planet lander as early as 2024.
On Thursday, the House passed a bipartisan bill to help the U.S. compete against China, namely by steering billions toward domestic semiconductor manufacturing. The CHIPS and Science Act (which stands for, Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America) features over $52 billion for American firms making computer chips, and billions to
Congress, on Wednesday, showed that it still has a few surprises up its sleeve for the current session.
In a shocking twist, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin announced they had reached an agreement on the Inflation Reduction Act
With its new Pixel Buds Pro earbuds, Google now has a solid competitor to Apple’s popular AirPods Pro.
The Pixel Buds Pro are Google’s fourth earbuds product since entering the category in 2017, and they’re the first to offer active noise cancellation, as the AirPods Pro already do. Google will sell the new buds for $199 retail (AirPods Pro retail for
Amid the inflection point of library digitization, publishing corporations want to reduce and redefine the role that libraries play in our society. Their suit seeks to halt loans of legally purchased and
Keyboard shortcuts are pure geek gold. And if there’s one company that’s filled with efficiency-appreciating eggheads, it’s Google.
So it’s no surprise that Google’s browser-based apps are absolutely overflowing with ways to accomplish tasks by pressing a key or two. And beyond the most broadly known keystrokes lies a web of easily overlooked treasures that’ll save you mountains of time.
From Gmail to Calendar and Photos to YouTube, here
We’re all scared, and we should be. Thousands of people in our industry have lost their jobs, and thousands more may still do so. But it’s not surprising, or ahistorical, or anything other than the same cycle of hubris that high-growth companies has been experiencing for years. Layoffs come seemingly every year or two, after major tech companies like Tesla (