2025-12-17

Uber and DoorDash challenge NYC law that encourages tipping

Uber and DoorDash are challenging a forthcoming NYC law that encourages tipping on food-delivery apps, as reported by The New York Times. The two entities have filed a joint federal lawsuit just ahead [...]

2025-12-02

Instacart sues New York City over minimum pay, tipping laws

You can tell a lot about a company by what they're willing to sue over. Take Instacart, which just filed a lawsuit against New York City. Its beef? The company doesn't like five new city law [...]

2025-08-12

Alien: Earth succeeds where Ridley Scott's Alien sequels failed

Alien: Earth delivers everything you'd want from a series with "Alien" in the title: The iconic Xenomorphs hunting down hapless humans; gratuitous body horror; and androids who you can [...]

2025-06-24

Google brings historical Street View to Google Earth

Google Earth is celebrating its 20th birthday, and to mark the occasion, Google is bringing historical Street View imagery to the service. In a blog post, Google said the anniversary update allows us [...]

2025-02-25

DoorDash to settle New York lawsuit over misleading tipping practices by paying $17 million

DoorDash has reached an agreement with the New York Attorney General over an old practice wherein the company used customers' tips to subsidize its drivers' pay. As the office of New York AG [...]

2025-04-16

Cloudera’s 2025 Agentic AI Survey Reveals a Tipping Point for Autonomous Enterprise Transformation

2025 is shaping up to be a defining year in enterprise technology—and according to the newly released Cloudera report titled The Future of Enterprise AI Agents which surveyed a total of 1,484 globa [...]

2025-09-02

Past the tipping point: Why the climate transition is now in our hands

Jacqueline van den Ende, CEO of Carbon Equity, believes we have already passed the climate transition tipping point: “Last year, 90% of all new electricity production worldwide came from renewable s [...]

2025-07-15

Apple commits $500 million over several years to buy US-made rare earth magnets

Apple just announced a commitment of $500 million over several years to buy rare earth magnets from the US-based company MP Materials. These rare earth magnets are used in a number of products, includ [...]

2025-08-04

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]