May 6, 2020 Andrew Cuomo is leaning on tech billionaires to help New York rebuild Andrew Cuomo (center) and Eric Schmidt (far right) tour a school in New York in 2014. | Alejandra Villa-Pool/Getty Images Eric Schmidt and Bill…
May 6, 2020 The United Kingdom’s contact tracing app could be a preview of America’s digital tracing future Outside Harrod’s department store, London, on April 16. | Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images Despite warning of “unintended consequences,” the UK is forging ahead with…
May 5, 2020 The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s CEO. | Photo by Mike Cohen/Getty Images for The New York Times Airbnb is laying off a quarter of its staff….
May 5, 2020 What Google searches tell us about our coronavirus thoughts and fears People are relying on Google to allay their coronavirus concerns and to keep them entertained in quarantine. | Jenny Matthews/In Pictures via Getty Images…
May 4, 2020 Paranoia about cheating is making online education terrible for everyone James Bareham for Vox/Recode A sudden switch to online learning reveals the choices ahead for educators. When student Marium Raza learned that her online…
May 1, 2020 The May Day strike from Amazon, Instacart, and Target workers didn’t stop business. It was still a success. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images In the time of coronavirus, essential workers can hold effective protests even without huge attendance. Essential workers at major…
May 1, 2020 Elon Musk is at it again Elon Musk attends the Satellite 2020 Conference in Washington, DC, on March 9. | Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Elon Musk declared he’s…
May 1, 2020 The obscure rule that is discouraging billionaires’ foundations from going big on coronavirus Jeff Skoll said this week that he would spend another $100 million on coronavirus relief. | Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Sundance Film Festival These…
May 1, 2020 Let’s check in on *****’s plan to bring drive-through testing to a drugstore near you Rite Aid teamed up with Verily to provide coronavirus tests at 25 sites across America. | Gregory Shamus/Getty Images So far, the public-private testing…
May 1, 2020 Congress wants Jeff Bezos to testify in Amazon antitrust probe Alex Wong/Getty Images A House subcommittee is scrutinizing whether the company unfairly competes against its own marketplace sellers. Seven US Congress members have called…