Google workers have formed a union

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

January 4, 2021 6:53 pm

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

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

December 23, 2020 5:43 pm

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

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

December 15, 2020 11:57 am

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

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

December 9, 2020 2:24 pm

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

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

December 8, 2020 1:04 pm

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

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

December 4, 2020 11:14 am

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

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

November 27, 2020 4:22 pm

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

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

November 26, 2020 6:10 pm

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

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

November 26, 2020 12:06 pm

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

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

November 24, 2020 4:37 pm

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