AI Gig Workers Face ‘Unfair’ Work Conditions
Artificial intelligence is booming. And with it, so are the digital labor platforms used by many AI companies to employ human gig workers. Those people perform the…
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Allies Are Needed to Create a Happy Society
Today, with society becoming more unequal and fragmented, cooperation is becoming more difficult. How can we overcome our differences in positions and interests and work together more…
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4 Ways to Fix Social Media That Don’t Cost $44 Billion
Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter in a deal worth $44 billion has sparked debate and concern about what the platform will look like once he takes…
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Food Delivery and Ride Apps to Pay Billions in E.U. Plan
As many as 4.1 million people working through food delivery and ride-hailing apps could be reclassified as employees under a forthcoming European Union plan meant to improve…
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An AI Company Scraped Billions of Photos. Regulators Can’t Stop It
More and more privacy watchdogs around the world are standing up to Clearview AI, a U.S. company that has collected billions of photos from the internet without…
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How Pay Transparency Laws Impact Business—and Workers
Job hunting can be exhausting and full of unknowns. Over the past year, Alaina, a 31-year-old biotech sales associate in Denver, Colo., started looking at job listings…
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SoftBank Returns to Familiar Strategy After Portfolio Losses
Masayoshi Son said his SoftBank Group Corp. will buy back as much as 1 trillion yen ($8.8 billion) of its stock after a decline in the value…
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The Real Threats to the Future of Netflix
The pandemic sparked a boom for video streaming services like Netflix, Disney+, and Peacock. In 2020 and 2021, Netflix added 54.6 million subscribers, many of them in…
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Big Tech Is Coming to Small Towns, but at What Cost-
Ned McNally is a tech nerd who fixes computers for family and friends. So he couldn’t believe his luck when a recruiter this year asked if he’d…
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The U.S. Has Had a Military Presence in Greenland Since 1941. A Young New Leader Wants Much More
Back in August 2019, former President Donald Trump floated what seemed like a wildly eccentric idea: Have the U.S. buy Greenland, the world’s biggest island, where a…
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