China Says Government To Set Prices for After-School Classes

China said local governments should set the fees for after-school tutoring institutions that offer compulsory education subjects, another st...

VCs Are Financing an Economy of Servants

An anonymous reader shares a post: But what's at stake is not just employing people properly and/or paying them well -- what is often ca...

VW is reviving its iconic microbus as an electric robotaxi

Five years after Volkswagen first unveiled its concept for an electric version of its iconic microbus, we’re finally getting our first glim...

The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books

Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. From a report:Steve Potash, the bearde...

Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Top Gun expansion also delayed to 2022

Microsoft’s Top Gun expansion for Microsoft Flight Simulator is being delayed to match the movie’s shifted release date. Paramount announ...

A Surprise Contributor to Climate Change? Food Waste

The Guardian writes: About a third of all the world's food goes to waste, and producing, transporting and letting that food rot releases...

Automated hiring software is mistakenly rejecting millions of viable job candidates

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Automated resume-scanning software is contributing to a “broken” hiring system in the US, says a ...