Big Tech Archive
Archives for December 2019


Around 2,300 contracted workers who serve meals to Google employees in the San Francisco Bay Area have unionized, saying they’re overworked and underpaid.


Knock, knock! Who’s there? A lawsuit.


The system could someday be used in Amazon Go or Whole Foods stores.


Workers lifting hundreds of boxes a day say they fear being fired for missing work.


Jeff Bezos hired Paul Davis to build Amazon’s website. Now Davis wants to break it up.


Typical Ring users don’t take extra steps for security. The company needs to require them.


That growth has come with controversy.


You’ll someday be able to use whichever smart home devices you want, regardless of which smart assistant you use.


How Silicon Valley billionaires skirt charity rules each holiday season.


This is only the latest controversy for the video doorbell company.

Amazon is leading a robotics race that will have a seismic impact on the warehouse industry, which employs more than 1.1 million Americans today.

This map shows how widespread the use of facial recognition technology has become.


Ride-share drivers lack employment protections that could keep them safer.


The company documented nearly 6,000 sexual assaults in two years.


Amazon fashion group leader Christine Beauchamp and Amazon advertising executive Colleen Aubrey are now two of three women on the “S-team.”