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[Link] Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is an Absolute Disaster, Former Employees Say
Read: 2/2/2022 futurism.com
Trouble is still brewing at Neuralink. Despite co-founder Elon Musk’s insistence that the brain-computer interface startup will be headed to human trials later this year, many experts aren’t so sure.
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[Link] How Fast-Fashion Giant Shein Used Big Tech to Change the Way We Shop
Read: 23/1/2022 www.vice.com
Depending on where you’ve been scrolling online this past year, you might have seen ads for a company called Shein, bearing taglines like “Make every day your Shein day!” and offers to win 250 outfits with a single click.
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[Link] ClassPass Faces Class Action Suit Over Phony Business Listings
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
ClassPass, the fitness and health club aggregator and subscription app, is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit for allegedly claiming to be partner with “countless” small businesses on its subscription-based app without their consent or even knowledge.
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[Link] Gopuff Delivery Workers Plan National Strike Ahead of Thanksgiving
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Some participating workers plan to not work their scheduled shifts as part of the strike, and others will refuse to fill in for them, organizers say. They hope this will have a “significant impact” on a company that promises delivery of food and goods in just half an hour.
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[Link] The startup that wants to disrupt big internet providers
Read: 9/11/2021 www.axios.com
Why it matters: Internet access has been crucial during the pandemic, but it's not ubiquitous, and it can be both slow and unaffordable in swaths of the country.
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[Link] More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates.
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[Link] A New Service Promises to Make Getting a Divorce Cheap and NBD
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
That is, according to science, which says that 'tis the most popular season to consciously uncouple. Look, we’re not here to judge anyone getting divorced, especially since about half of American marriages end up that way, according to the World Population Review.
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