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It was a bad week for Truth Social and the Tesla Cybertruck. Both showed that they might not be as great as Donald Trump and Elon Musk thought. This week also saw a terrifying AI video generator, major complaints about a dog-sitting app, and the retirement of a beloved robot. Check out the big tech stories of the…

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Instacart gig worker delivery during coronavirus pandemic
Delivery gig workers say they some store employees treat them like second-class citizens.
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Uber
Uber eventually apologized to Swastika Chandra.
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Despite their ever-present controversy, trackers, particularly Apple’s AirTags, have proved helpful over the past three years since their first rel

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Rover bills itself as the most popular pet-sitting app in the U.S., with tens of millions of bookings since the service was founded in 2011. But just like other gig-economy apps such as Uber and Airbnb, Rover is offered as a technology platform rather than a direct employer of pet-sitters. And that can lead to some…

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A woman with red hair puts a box of Wheat Thins in a brown paper grocery bag sitting in a cart at a Safeway grocery store in early 2020.
Instacart is pushing its gig worker shoppers to tell the Seattle city council to alter a pay law that took effect earlier this year.
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DoorDash Driver NYC
Some people are getting tax forms suggesting they worked for apps like DoorDash even when they didn't.