These days, Fuentes waits anxiously by her computer, ready to start tasking at a moment’s notice. Some weeks, her hypervigilance leads to nothing; others she brings in a dismal $6 to $8, falling short of the threshold to withdraw her…
Enlarge / This is the 14-inch variant of the Yoga Slim 9i, with leather finish. reader comments 79 with 56 posters participating Share this story Lenovo has released security updates for more than 100 laptop models to fix critical vulnerabilities…
Part of the Future of Work issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. The first children arrive at 5 am. It’s still dark out, and they’re sleepy, but their mom has to get to…
“Vumacam’s technology is honed for the purpose of preventing crime and as such does not have mass surveillance capability nor intention,” says Pearman. “The concerns of so-called ‘activists’ quoted is propaganda that we deem intentionally malicious, defamatory and without any…
Getty Images reader comments 84 with 56 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency, a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across other apps without first receiving those…
This story is part of Recode by Vox’s Tech Support series, which explores solutions for our warming world. When consumer lithium-ion batteries debuted in the 1990s, they were revolutionary: They recharged in a few hours or less and made our…
Economist Matteo Benetton, a coauthor of the paper and a professor at the Hass School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, says that crypto mining can depress local economies. In places with fixed electricity supplies, operations suck up…
If you want to pay online, you need to register an account and provide credit card information. If you don’t have a credit card, you can pay with bank transfer. With the rise of cryptocurrencies, these methods may become obsolete.…
Scammers have been profiting from the war in Ukraine by spreading emotional appeals across the internet and stealing identities. Global Disinformation Reporter Hannah Gelbart investigates their emotionally charged tricks, and follows digital paper trails across the internet Read moreDealcollector un…