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Uber’s Defense in California Driver Class-Action Lawsuit: ‘LOL Laws LOL’

The company kind of has a point—we do need better labor laws. Just not the ones Silicon Valley is promoting.

The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.

An open application to the university’s Impact Challenge.

Why test cars on fake roads when they'll need to operate on real ones?

This isn’t a matter of technology—a service economy by another name is still a service economy.

The way we work is changing, but not quickly enough for the boosters peddling these ideas.

Our machines are very smart. They’re also very incompetent.

The company has more practice than you might expect.

We treat platforms like they are public utilities. They’re not—but maybe they could be.

The secondary housing market in the Bay Area is blowing up, but collective living isn’t always “sharing.”