Technology

BBC Click’s Nick Kwek looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: The co-founder and chairman of Alibaba, Jack Ma, steps down from the e-commerce giant The world’s longest road trip in an electric car was completed in a journey from China to Germany A colour-changing ink, which reacts to different wavelengths of […]

In its top left corner, Instagram invites you to share “your story.” The platform’s savviest users log on not to share what’s happening with them spontaneously, but to create the story of themselves. Natalie Beach, a writer who helped her college friend Caroline Calloway create a healthy Instagram following by telling these stories, made that

Google has reached a settlement over employees’ ability to speak out about workplace issues after a former worker filed a complaint. Under the settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, Google said, the company will post notices to remind employees of their federal rights. That includes the ability to talk to each other about workplace

WASHINGTON — Google said Thursday that it had reached a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board over complaints from multiple employees who say the company has stymied dissent, including one who has said he was fired for being an outspoken conservative. Google plans to explain to employees the rights they have as workers under

YouTube’s algorithm promotes medical misinformation in a number of languages, a BBC investigation has found. Searching YouTube across 10 languages, the BBC found more than 80 videos containing health misinformation – mainly bogus cancer cures. Ten of the videos found had more than a million views. Many were accompanied by adverts. The BBC asked Professor

It took 22 years, but a missing man’s remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake, authorities said. The skeletal remains were of William Moldt, who went missing in 1997 at the age of 40, according

Uber insisted on Wednesday that it may not have to reclassify its drivers as employees despite a new California law that appears to require just that. Hours later, the ride-hailing company learned it would soon get a chance to test its argument in court. A longtime legal antagonist filed a class-action suit on behalf of

A deal worth as much as $12 billion that’s being negotiated between Purdue Pharma and its owners, and the state, local and tribal governments involved in national opioid litigation has the potential to shape efforts to reach a global settlement with other manufacturers, drug distributors and retailers in lawsuits consolidated before a federal judge in

A Kickstarter employee says that the tech company fired her for her union organizing and that she was told to sign an overly broad non-disparagement agreement if she wanted severance pay. Clarissa Redwine, who was a senior design and tech outreach lead at the company, said Kickstarter let her go last week, attributing her firing

Aaswath Raman was driving through a village in Sierra Leone in 2013 when an idea came to him as suddenly as, perhaps, a light bulb switching on. The village was not equipped with electricity, and Dr. Raman, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, was unaware he was in a village until