Technology

Between 2022 and 2023, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and other app-based ride-hail and delivery companies must reimburse California gig workers millions of dollars for unpaid vehicle expenses. Proposition 22, the controversial law that classifies gig workers as independent contractors and offers them limited protections and benefits, mandates the back payments. Gig …

Generative AI, which translates text into prose, graphics, and videos, is developing in a fragmented tech landscape between the U.S. and China due to the decoupling. China is developing huge language models like OpenAI’s GPT models to minimize its reliance on the U.S. Unlike the U.S., Baidu is one of …

Ring, an Amazon-owned video surveillance company, will pay $5.8 million to settle FTC charges that staff and contractors had unrestricted access to customers’ videos for years. Wednesday saw the settlement filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FTC verified the settlement shortly after. Reuters reported the …

Today, the Linux Foundation Europe launched the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project. RISE brings together many software and hardware vendors to accelerate “the availability of software for high-performance and power-efficient RISC-V cores running high-level operating systems for a variety of market segments.” Google, Intel, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm Technologies, Red Hat, …

Today, end-to-end machine learning platform Predibase announced a $12.2 million Series A funding round expansion. The company also released its low-code, declarative ML platform for developers. Last year’s beta period saw over 250 models trained on the platform. Now that Predibase is generally available, these users can deploy their own …

Theranos was worth $10 billion ten years ago. Wire fraud indicted her five years ago. Holmes began her 11-year-and-3-month sentence today. A defendant is usually convicted and imprisoned soon after indictment. Holmes’ legal team has played every card to delay her fall, which was once hailed as the next Steve …

“Black Mirror” season six premiered Wednesday on Netflix with a disturbing trailer. The streamer debuts the series on June 15. The trailer begins with a glimpse of the first episode, which, like all “Black Mirror” episodes, is terrifying. Episode one, “Joan is Awful,” features “Streamberry,” a Netflix clone that plays …

Uber spinoff Serve Robotics is expanding its cooperation with Uber Eats. The Nvidia-backed business will deploy up to 2,000 of its cute tiny bots via Uber in different U.S. regions. The partnership will extend through early 2026. This expansion reinforces Serve’s ambition to mass commercialize robotics for autonomous delivery and …

A cybersecurity group claims that a popular Android screen recording software with tens of thousands of downloads on Google’s app store began spying on its users, capturing microphone recordings and other phone data. ESET observed that the Android app “iRecorder — Screen Recorder” released the malicious code as an app …

Everybody has. Shopping online and desperate for a promo code to save money. I was there. Enter Checkmate. The startup wants to end promo/discount/coupon code hunting. For that, it raised $15 million in Series A funding. This raise had some interesting features. Checkmate recently raised $5 million. Raising capital soon …