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Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At the postponed Tokyo… Read More »Dengue Fever Threatens To Gate-Crash The 2024 Summer Olympics
The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that drivers for app-based companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash will remain independent contractors, as opposed to… Read More »California Supreme Court Rules That Uber And Lyft Drivers Will Remain Independent Contractors
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman and his colleagues have been… Read More »The Mysterious Discovery Of ‘Dark Oxygen’ On The Ocean Floor
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The people of San Francisco haven’t always been kind to Waymo’s growing fleet of driverless taxis. The autonomous vehicles, which provide tens of thousands of… Read More »Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed And Slashed Its Robotaxis