Google workers have formed a union

January 4, 2021 6:53 pm

Google was arguably at the epicentre of the origins of the tech worker movement. The Damore memo and the Walkout,…

Uber’s EU lobbying efforts could step up a gear in 2021

December 23, 2020 5:43 pm

Proposition 22’s victory in California in November highlighted the extent gig economy companies will go to ensure labour laws are…

Science and intimacy: The troubling relationship between data surveillance and care

December 15, 2020 11:57 am

At the end of November, The Daily Mail published details of an investigation into how UK councils are working with…

Could big tech platforms improve democracy rather than undermine it? Possibly, says Common Wealth

December 9, 2020 2:24 pm

The digital platforms that make up 'big tech' as we know it today have done very little for democracy. Ideas…

Microsoft has a patent for a chatbot based on a real person

December 8, 2020 1:04 pm

Do you remember that episode of Black Mirror with the artificial Domnhall Gleeson? Well, Microsoft now has a patent for…

UK publishers to receive millions from Facebook as the platform prepares to launch Facebook News

December 4, 2020 11:14 am

Facebook announced on Monday that it will launch Facebook News in the UK in the new year. The initiative will…

Google and Facebook face regulation from the Digital Markets Unit, a new digital watchdog in the UK

November 27, 2020 4:22 pm

The UK government has announced the creation of a new digital watchdog, the Digital Markets Unit. The news won't be…

The AWS outage exposes the fragility of our data-hungry digital economy

November 26, 2020 6:10 pm

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, reported by The Verge, took down a huge number of applications and websites yesterday…

A Coinbase internal email preempts a New York Times story alleging discrimination inside the company

November 26, 2020 12:06 pm

Cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has published an internal email intended to rebut to a New York Times story about the…

U.K. “scaleup” success is built on VC opportunism, not meeting society’s needs

November 24, 2020 4:37 pm

A new report by Beauhurst and the Scaleup Institute shows that the number of 'scaleup' companies has doubled over the…

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