Business, Spoken

Nonprofits and advocacy groups signed on to an organization called Communities Against Rider Surveillance—without knowing that the ride-hail giant was involved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coronavirus restrictions make it harder and more expensive to shoot videos. So some companies are turning to synthetic media instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Making an autonomous vehicle is proving harder and costlier than many startups predicted. So they're teaming up with giants like Hyundai, Jaguar, and Ford. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two studies reach very different conclusions about ride-hail earnings, as city officials consider setting a minimum wage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artificially intelligent camera systems look for defects and misplaced parts in many industries. The coronavirus pandemic makes them extra useful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Divisions over technical standards and the role of China's Huawei are jeopardizing the rollout of superfast connections. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In just three years, Columbus managed to exceed its goal of more than 3,200 new BEVs and plug-in hybrids . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Founded by Instagram and finance alums, Karat wants to be the black card in every influencer’s wallet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Software company Acronis has been storing the data of the best and brightest teams. Now, it wants to use that to help them win games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To cut the carbon, programmers are cutting the code. Call it green programming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

US carmakers fare well in JD Power's annual survey of new vehicle owners. Tesla gets poor grades on a small sample. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The search giant was the only Chinese member of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a US-led effort to foster collaboration on ethical issues. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Companies rush to offer digital help for psychiatric disorders, after the FDA relaxes its rules amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scrutiny of Apple’s App Store policies heats up as the company heads into its annual software conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM say they want federal rules around the technology. Critics of the proposal, sponsored by four Democrats, say it doesn't go far enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Beta Technologies' Alia, which debuted Friday, draws inspiration from the ultra-efficient Arctic tern. The craft may one day transport organs for transplants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Software programs adopted during the Covid-19 crisis make it easier to complete forms and track requests. It saves work, but could cost jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Capacity limits and social distancing requirements prompt businesses to count how many people are inside—and force some to wait outside. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The winning detection algorithm from a Facebook-led challenge could spot about two-thirds of the altered videos, highlighting the need for improvement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The research institute was created to steer AI away from harmful uses. Now it's competing with tech giants to sell a cloud computing service to businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The social media company is testing warnings for users who try to share links to articles they haven't read. To do that, it has to know what you've read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To some in the tech industry, facial recognition increasingly looks like toxic technology. To law enforcement, it’s an almost irresistible crime-fighting tool. IBM is the latest company to declare facial recognition too troubling. CEO Arvind Krishna told members of Congress Monday that IBM would no longer offer the technology, citing the potential for racial profiling and human rights abuse. In a...

Late last month, a mysterious new video app called Zynn began appearing at the top of app store charts, beating out household names like Instagram and YouTube. Zynn is a near identical copy of TikTok, and both apps are the product of Chinese tech giants. The biggest difference is that Zynn, in an effort to attract new users, is currently paying people in the United States and Canada small sums to...

Uber, Lyft, and others have agreed to pay people who've missed work because of the virus. Seattle is on the cusp of making it law in that city. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Employees who decline to work amid the pandemic could lose both their paychecks and their unemployment benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices