Two years on, India and South Korea’s respective Thomas and Uber Cup triumphs in 2022 are still difficult to fathom, but every action provokes a reaction. Hosts China have won the Uber Cup every time the tournament has been staged on home soil, and while India’s Thomas Cup team is identical on paper, its component … Read more
Starting today, the Uber app will remind you to put on your seatbelt shortly after your ride starts. Passengers’ tendency to not use a seat belt remains a significant concern, the ride-hailing service wrote in its announcement of the new safety feature, even though 50 percent of all vehicle crash deaths in the US in … Read more
Gig work predates the internet. Besides traditional forms of self-employment, like plumbing, offers for ad-hoc services have long been found in the Yellow Pages and newspaper classified ads, and later Craigslist and Backpage which supplanted them. Low-cost broadband internet allowed for the proliferation of computer-based gig platforms like Mechanical Turk, Fiverr and Elance, which offered … Read more