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Notre-Dame fire: Why historic restorations keep going up in flames
It’s too early to know what caused the devastating fire in Paris, but all it takes is a moment of negligence to burn a historic building to the ground. (Fast Company)
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The fight for $15 (per hour) comes to the gig economy
With take-home pay dropping as companies prune for IPOs, drivers for Instacart, DoorDash, and other services are uniting to demand a minimum wage. (Read more on Fast Company)
Posted in Fast Company, Labor, Scoop-Enterprise
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Delivery workers: Tip us in cash so companies have to pay us more
Since delivery companies like Amazon and DoorDash count tips in their pay formula, workers are asking for cash tips, which the companies can’t see. (Read more on Fast Company)
Posted in Fast Company, Labor, Uncategorized
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DoorDash reveals how much it relies on customer tips to pay its workers
The food delivery service discloses how much of drivers’ income consists of tips, amid widespread outrage among gig economy workers about payment systems. (Read more on Fast Company)
Posted in Fast Company, Labor, Scoop-Enterprise
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Meet the Google engineer getting its workers ready to strike
Google engineer Liz Fong-Jones raised over $100,000 in three hours to support striking workers, then doubled it with her own contribution. (Read more on Fast Company.)
Posted in Fast Company, Labor, Scoop-Enterprise
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By going public, dissidents at Google will face some huge risks
Publicly opposing an employer could expose workers to retribution from within and without–and to a big financial hit. (Read more on Fast Company)
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This tech CEO is offering a $1 million donation to inspire tech companies to help fight homelessness
The CEO of the booming startup Twilio will put $1 million of company’s money toward alleviating homeless problems, urging other tech leaders to pony up, too. (Fast Company)
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This incredibly simple privacy app helps protect your phone from snoops with one click
Forgoing the default DNS server that your ISP provides and using an alternate one like Cloudflare’s (or others) makes it a lot harder for your ISP to log all the sites you go to. (Read on Fast Company)
Posted in Christian Science Monitor, Fast Company, privacy
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Silicon Valley voters just demanded that tech companies be responsible for their communities
Three Bay Area cities approved new taxes to help even out the income divide. They may inspire a movement across the state and country. (Fast Company)
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NASA astronauts will get to use this extraterrestrial supercomputer
With three or four months before the system gets a ride back to Earth for more testing, NASA decided to put the system, an HPE Apollo 4000-series enterprise server, to work doing real science experiments on the ISS. (Fast Company)
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