February 24, 2025

Your boss is watching

A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, includes waiting in her car for a two-digit number to appear. The apps keep sending her rides that are too cheap to pay for her time—$4 or $7 for a trip across San Francisco, $16 for…

March 2023

Kids tech camp iD Tech still silent weeks after data breach

March 23, 2023

Parents are still looking for answers weeks after hackers stole the personal data of thousands of users from kids’ tech coding camp iD Tech, with some fearing that their children’s data was compromised in the data breach. iD Tech, which provides on-campus classes and online tech and coding courses for kids, has yet to acknowledge […]

Kids tech camp iD Tech still silent weeks after data breach by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

SEC clamps down on Coinbase and Tron, while Do Kwon is arrested overseas

March 23, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It was a big week in the crypto world as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission clamped down on major crypto companies like Coinbase and Tron […]

SEC clamps down on Coinbase and Tron, while Do Kwon is arrested overseas by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Metaverse is just VR, admits Meta, as it lobbies against ‘arbitrary’ network fee

March 23, 2023

Meta, the self-styled “metaverse company” formerly known as Facebook, has taken on a novel role de-hyping the virtual world technology its founder bet the farm on just a few short years ago. No, it hasn’t announced another pivot — rather it’s been forced to dial down the multicolored metaverse hype as it lobbies against a […]

Metaverse is just VR, admits Meta, as it lobbies against ‘arbitrary’ network fee by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Conventional wisdom

March 23, 2023

If you’d told me five years ago that I would be flying to Chicago in March to attend a supply chain and logistics show, you would have been greeted by a momentary blank stare, followed by the image of a man attempting to determine in real time where his life went off-track. This is absolutely […]

Conventional wisdom by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch