Engadget19 hours agoApple has reached a contract agreement with unionized US retail employees for the first timeEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldWorkers in Towson, Maryland will vote on the tentative agreement next month. Apple and the unionized employees at its Towson, Maryland retail store have reached a tentative agreement that could secure them better pay, job protections, scheduling improvements to support a work-life balance and a more …
Engadget20 hours agoDOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religionEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldThe Justice Department asked the court to reject TikTok’s bid to escape the law that will force its sale or ban it. The Department of Justice on Friday night asked a federal court to reject TikTok’s bid to have the law that could ban it overturned, citing national security concerns that include its …
Engadget22 hours agoWhat to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China MiévilleEngadget - Cheyenne MacDonaldPlus: The math and history behind modern AI, and a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention. The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville A few years ago, Keanu Reeves took a dive into the world of comics with a …
Engadget1 day agoWebsites accuse AI startup Anthropic of bypassing their anti-scraping rules and protocolEngadget - Mariella MooniFixit and Freelancer said Anthropic's bot aggressively crawled their websites. Freelancer has accused Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude large language models, of ignoring its "do not crawl" robots.txt protocol to scrape its websites' data. Meanwhile, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens said Anthropic …
Engadget1 day agoAmazon drops the first teaser for its upcoming Yakuza adaptationEngadget - Mariella MoonThe series will premiere on Prime Video on October 24. Amazon has released its first teaser video for Like A Dragon: Yakuza, its live action adaptation of SEGA's Yakuza games, at San Diego Comic-Con. There's a lot of focus on the inking process of Kazuma Kiryu's iconic dragon tattoo, but you'll also …
Engadget1 day agoISPs are fighting to raise the price of low-income broadbandEngadget - Danny GallagherThey want government money, but argue $30 broadband is impossible. A new government program is trying to encourage Internet service providers (ISPs) to offer lower rates for lower income customers by distributing federal funds through states. The only problem is the ISPs don’t want to offer the …
