Business, Spoken

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko's allegations about the social media platform renewed a sense of urgency for lawmakers to rein in Big Tech. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In France, the gig economy platform welcomed thousands of immigrants during the pandemic, unions say. Now it’s deactivating them en masse. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The tech giants' corporate offices across the US Â drew demonstrations over an Israeli government cloud contract that opponents say could have military uses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The US regulator is eager to end unfair use of artificial intelligence and commercial surveillance, but experts remain skeptical. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Blistering temperatures and the invasion of Ukraine have fed fears of global shortages—but some regions are suffering much more than others. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Startup incubator Y Combinator birthed big names like Airbnb and Stripe. Incoming CEO Garry Tan says he’ll tap the program’s alumni network to generate new tech giants. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After two people were injured in the incident, Cruise blocked its robot vehicles from making left turns for several weeks before issuing a software update. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The region’s unified approach to energy predates Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but countries suffering from shortages may now have to watch gas flow past. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act could transform how goods get to stores and consumers by incentivizing US business owners to buy zero-emission electric vehicles. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

WeWork’s controversial cofounder Adam Neumann is not the only entrepreneur to see opportunity in the generation of Americans unable to buy homes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In recent years investors greeted founders with generous checks and warm smiles, but now CEOs seeking cash encounter cold shoulders. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The AI-powered online doctor app is ditching its controversial NHS contracts as it focuses on the US market. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Algorithms can amplify patterns of discrimination. Robotics researchers are calling for new ways to prevent mechanical bodies acting out those biases. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

One of the most influential cryptocurrency projects is set to finally ditch proof-of-work mining. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new generation of AI image tools can reproduce an artist’s signature style. Some creatives fear for their livelihoods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The latest crisis that rocked the Greek government shows the bloc’s surveillance problem goes beyond the notorious NSO Group. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The financial aid model more closely associated with coding boot camps has made its way to traditional universities. Now it's coming under scrutiny. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Users face increasingly impossible challenges to prove they are not bots. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to sociology rushing to use techniques that they don’t always understand—causing a wave of spurious results. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company said it would prevent Russia-based users from uploading fresh content—but some new videos are still showing up on FYPs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After a local politician and two others were gunned down in the Philippines, posts supporting the suspect continue to gain traction on social media. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies that once battled to hire employees close to home are now turning to Latin America and other markets for talent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After news of a “pointless” pay increase spread, workers at three warehouses stopped work to demand higher wages as inflation and interest rates surge. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Nurses, retail workers, and other employees can owe thousands of dollars just for quitting their job—or getting laid off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies are cutting costs by embracing remote setups, but what happens to the hubs they leave behind? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Compass Mining grew quickly during crypto’s halcyon days. Now, its customers and their thousands of mining machines are stuck. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An experiment shows that overworked judges turn to the crowdsourced encyclopedia for guidance when making legal decisions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Meta has allowed ads that include hate speech and calls for violence ahead of the country’s elections. But experts warn that a shutdown isn’t the answer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Companies are racing to cool down their servers as energy prices and temperatures soar. And the worst is yet to come. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Earnings season was dominated by two companies—both existential threats to their competition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To secure the land for its multibillion-dollar Downtown West development, the company has had to track down dozens of distant relatives of 19th-century landowners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Workers are calling on management to stop inflicting “traumatic” pressure on other workers trying to unionize. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Men are more likely to buy electric vehicles, and carmakers are eager to diversify their base. But what will it take to close the gender gap? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Certain chips have caught up with demand, thanks to stockpiling and reduced consumer spending, but the semiconductor supply chain is still snarled up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Post within the two-minute window to share off-the-cuff photos with your friends—and the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Desperate people in the US and beyond are turning to an unregulated, cross-continental supply chain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An electric hydrofoil ferry could be the future of public transportation in Stockholm—and beyond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The startup used regulatory loopholes and marketing to make nicotine cool. Now the FDA threatens to shut the company down, but new rivals are taking over. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The company’s warehouses demand a fast pace of workers, and have higher injury rates than at competing firms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a series of incidents, the GM subsidiary lost contact with its autonomous vehicles, leaving them frozen in traffic and trapping human drivers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dubious design and inefficient operations are just some of the reasons why shared scooters’ ecocredentials are thin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More services are going online-only—catching more people on the wrong side of a widening gulf. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Lawmakers in the US and Europe are considering ways to regulate crypto and crack down on money-laundering and other illicit activities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google, Amazon, and others will help permanent staff seek out-of-state care. But their many contractors remain shut out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

No one will agree on what the metaverse is. But that's not stopping a coalition of big names in tech from designing the tools needed to build it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Abortion access groups and activists say they were dealing with algorithmic suppression long before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new European Union law will set rules for what the technology can and can’t do to people, like whether it’s OK to deploy lie detectors at borders. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The country wants electric vehicles to make up 40 percent of new cars sold by 2030—but first it has to figure out how to keep them charged. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices