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California passes landmark gig workers’ rights bill — here’s what that means

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California legislators on Tuesday approved a landmark bill that would consider contractors for companies like Uber and Lyft as “employees.” The state Senate voted in favor of the bill — dubbed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) — that would ensure gig economy workers in companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are entitled to minimum wage, workers‘ […]

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Go ahead, dive inside the mind of Bill Gates. But strap in.

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What makes Bill Gates tick? That’s the subject of “Inside Bill’s Brain,” a new three-part documentary on Netflix from Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim. Each episode in the series introduces three huge global issues The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has tackled recently — safe sanitation technology, polio eradication and nuclear power — then switches

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Divvy Bill Pay Gives You a Better View of Your Business Spending

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Keeping track of expenses is one of the many jobs of small business owners. And as jobs go, it is very important. Whether you have a software or you’re doing it old school, you need up to date and accurate view of your total spend. Bill Pay is a new solution from Divvy designed to

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A Senate Bill Targets YouTube Pedophiles. Could It Cost Family Vloggers Their Livelihood?

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YouTube has a problem: its recommendation algorithm assembles video playlists for pedophiles. Now a Republican senator has proposed an aggressive new law to solve the problem ― but could inadvertently imperil family vloggers’ livelihoods. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced his bill this month, days after a New York Times report revealed how YouTube’s automatic algorithms grab

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Uber and Lyft fight a new California Senate bill that would make drivers employees

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California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon endorses a bill that would limit when companies can label workers as independent contractors during a rally July 10 in Sacramento. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) Faiz Siddiqui San Francisco-based tech reporter covering automation and the future of transportation, including Tesla, Uber and Lyft August 30 Uber and Lyft are floating a new

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Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists

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There are a lot of worries today about technology’s harmful effects. How do you retain your famous optimism about it? This story is part of our March/April 2019 issue See the rest of the issueSubscribe Look at how long people are living, the reduction of under-five mortality, the reduction in how poorly women are treated.

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10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates

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I was honored when MIT Technology Review invited me to be the first guest curator of its 10 Breakthrough Technologies. Narrowing down the list was difficult. I wanted to choose things that not only will create headlines in 2019 but captured this moment in technological history—which got me thinking about how innovation has evolved over

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French MPs back bill providing online social media platforms 24 hours to remove hate speeches

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image for representation Paris, July 5: French members of parliament (MPs) backed a bill on Thursday to provide online social media platforms only 24 hours to quickly remove hate speech or face consequences, the latest European initiative to handle online abuse, racism, homophobia, sexism, and anti-semitism. According to Dawn news reports, the members of the lower

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Bill Slawski – Search Engine Journal

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About Bill Slawski has been doing SEO since 1996. He was a legal and technical administrator at the highest trial level court in Delaware for 14 years before he started writing on the Web. He’s been blogging about Search and SEO for over a dozen years, and lives near the Pacific in Carlsbad, California. I

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50% of Small Business Owners Saw a 10% Tax Bill Decrease in 2019

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Half the respondents to a new survey saw their tax bill drop. And some tout the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as a reason. But another equal amount reported their tax bill remained the same. The Q1 2019 Vistage CEO Confidence Index also found a small percentage of respondents saw increases in their taxes.

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