About 80 Google contractors in Pittsburgh voted to unionize with United Steelworkers on Tuesday, in a historic move for white-collar workers at the search giant. The tech workers, who are employed by Google contractor HCL Technologies, are only a few of the many contractors that comprise the bulk of Google’s labor force. But Tuesday’s vote…
When The Dress went viral in 2015—driving tens of millions of online onlookers into existential conniptions over whether the garment was blue and black or white and gold—it didn't just break the internet, it broke color science as researchers had conceived of it up to that point.Never before had scientists observed such stark differences of…
With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple's big event last week, it was easy to forget the company's longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. That's by design. Silicon Valley's advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk…
Welcome to Ukraine-gate, the latest allegation of corruption in President Donald Trump’s administration and a uniquely confusing chapter in the commander in chief’s tense relationship with the men and women of the US intelligence community.The burgeoning scandal swept into public view 10 days ago with an odd, unexpected Friday night letter from House Intelligence Committee…
In a cavernous, half-built structure outside of Boston, I stand at the edge of a pit watching YouTube’s most famous robot do my bidding. A flick of a joystick with my left thumb sends the quadruped forward and backward and side to side, while my right thumb turns it left and right, motors whirring with…
The latest iOS 13 update for iPhones has arrived, and with it comes a bevy of handy new features for Apple's handsets. Among them is the ability to share one audio stream between two pairs of headphones. Gone are the days of clunking heads together while sharing one pair of earbuds—not to mention having to…
Over the last half decade or so, Russia's state-sponsored hackers have distinguished themselves as the most active, aggressive, and disruptive teams of online aggressors in the world. They've meddled in elections, blacked out power grids, innovated devious new forms of espionage, hacked the Olympics, and unleashed the most destructive worm in history—a list that makes…
After years of watching its competitors launch efforts to take self-driving technology and turn it from a lofty research project into an actual revenue stream, Hyundai has placed a hefty bet that it can deliver its own robotaxi. The Korean automaker announced Monday it is spending $2 billion to form a joint venture with an…
Another day in the laboratory, and all was quiet apart from the scritch-scratch of styluses on graphics tablets. On dozens of screens, glowing in the low light, were the various components of a human body: the dislocated sphere of an eyeball, the strange topography of skin in extreme close-up, a thicket of sprouting hair follicles.…
Comscore, a company that’s performance metrics are widely touted in the media world, has settled with the SEC following charges of inflating its own metrics. The company and its former…
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