UK drivers working for ride-hailing and food delivery app Bolt should be classed as staff rather than self-employed, the Employment Tribunal has ruled. Being classified as workers means more than 100,000 Bolt drivers are now entitled to better workplace conditions and protections for the first time under UK employment law, including the right to be…
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Marc Francis spent the past few years of his life governed by a broken route planner. Time after time, the driver who until recently delivered for Parcelforce would be asked to go on harder and harder routes or given unfeasible routes on his shifts. And when the system broke, failed to bring up an address…
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A company that helps TikTok, Uber, and X verify the identity of their users by processing photos of faces and driver’s licenses reportedly exposed administrative credentials online for more than a year, 404 Media reports. As a result, hackers could have gained access to sensitive user data from the ID verification service at any time.Founded…
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The iPhone 15 series was announced on September 12, 2023, at Apple’s Wonderlust event. Available in four options, Cupertino revamped the standard models while taking the Pro iPhones to the next level. Here’s what you need to know about these phones. Design: The Dynamic Island welcomes more peopleOne of the iPhone 15 microphones sits on…
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Financial services giant Goldman Sachs is among the household names confirmed to be using Google Cloud’s flagship Gemini and Vertex generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies. The public cloud giant’s annual user and partner conference, Google Cloud Next, showcased how its GenAI systems are being used by customers to create independent generative AI entities, dubbed agents,…
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The Rabbit r1 is a mobile gadget that can perform in-app actions for you. No other AI product can do that, at least for now. But I’m certain iPhones and Android devices will get similar AI capabilities in the not-too-distant future. It’ll happen slowly, with useful in-app AI features coming to mobile devices as AI…
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Working at a company that is a giant of the tech sector has many advantages, but for Arvind Jain, the CEO of Glean, it also helps to work at much smaller organisations. Glean positions itself as the Google of enterprise knowledge and discovery. In fact, it was founded in 2019 by a number of Google…
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iOS 17 brought several new features to the iPhone. Whether you bought an iPhone 15 Pro or are still using an iPhone XR, this new operating system is packed with features — but some of them aren’t as well known as StandBy Mode or Contact Posters. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the…
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The alleged teenage ringleader of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion collective, which hacked into the systems of multiple high-profile victim organisations in 2021 and 2022, has been ruled responsible for his hacking spree at Southwark Crown Court. The 18-year old from Oxford, who was first named as Arion Kurtaj earlier is year, is autistic and was…
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The US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) is to conduce a review of cloud cyber security, focusing on what government bodies, industry and cloud service providers need to do better to strengthen identity management and authentication in the cloud. The probe comes in the wake of the July 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online incident, which will…
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